Songs Quotes
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All the songs on the first album were like skeletons of how we really played them. It was just a combination of not having any studio experience and having to do everything so fast. I also think that studios are, by nature, limiting. You cannot get the sound of five big amplifiers on a little piece of tape.
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I write songs; I record them. When I get enough, and it seems like a coherent piece, I call it an album.
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I've always written songs to use music as a form of therapy or as a way to look at my obstacles or my memories from a different perspective. It's always helped me realize the grass isn't always greener and how I need to live more in the moment. My songwriting is a documentation of whatever's happening in my life at that point in time.
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Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities.
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I feel like our songs are a journey.
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With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius, as far as I was concerned, were not that.
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As a writer of worship songs, I have a hunger to write deep songs of passionate reverence to God. Yet I'm aware I cannot sing before I have seen. All worship is a response to a revelation--it's only as we breathe in more of the wonders of God that we can breathe out a fuller response to Him....the key to a life of passionate and powerful worship comes from seeing God.
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We call them impact songs, and people buy impact songs. But you just never know what those songs are going to be. One of those songs that really went through the roof for us was 'Big Green Tractor,' which I thought was kind of a fun little ditty song that I never in a million years thought would be as big as it was. But it was.
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Good Charlotte became more than a band and more than the songs: it became something that the fans owned.
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Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along the endless marching columns, and for the last time the Lord's grace smiled on His ungrateful children.
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When we formed the band in 1970, we set out to try to write great songs like the songs we heard when we were growing up.
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The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.
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But we're still rehearsing and planning to make a new album next year. We have some really good new songs that we've already been playing on that last tour that we just finished.
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You don't want your kids to hear songs of this nature... But you take em to the movies to watch Schwarzenegger!
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'One More Summer' is one of those songs that I think will go over really well.
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I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.
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I like songs that are simple.
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The war also made its way into love songs, including such kitsch classics as “Your Lips Are No Man’s Land but Mine” and “If He Can Fight Like He Can Love, Good Night Germany!"
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I find the songs that have the most human components in production are the ones that will stand the test of time.
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There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.
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You can be whoever you want to be when you are writing songs.
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I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.
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I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs are quite different from those which he exemplified.
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When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.
