Songs Quotes
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I don't see the songs as uplifting, but rather as trying to make lemonade from lemons, or whatever. When I listen to them, I understand the context. I don't like to pepper songs with my own experiences, though.
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I like songs that are simple.
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Quit shouting those rerun songs at me.
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There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars cheating on their wives, sex.
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'One More Summer' is one of those songs that I think will go over really well.
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Your youth is the most important thing you will ever have. It's when you will connect to music like a primal urge, and the memories attached to the songs will never leave you. Please hold on to everything. Keep every note, mix tape, concert ticket stub, and memory you have of music from your youth. It'll be the one thing that might keep you young, even if you aren't anymore.
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As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
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The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.
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I really don't know. His lyrics are pretty out there. Daniel's lyrics are pretty personal. They are mostly personal things, and I don't really know what they are all about. All of us are a band and I still don't have a clue what the hell he's on about! But I don't care. I like his lyrics and I think they are really good. I don't think it's the happiest stuff in the world. It's like in some of the songs, it's got dark music as well as the dark lyrics.
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When I was a mailman, writing songs was my escape from the regular world, and now writing songs is my job. And I've always been one to avoid my job.
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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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The real task was to write songs that were believably bad. It was one of the best jobs I've ever had in
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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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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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The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.
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I didn't form a group to perform Cilla Black songs.
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My songs are like my kids.
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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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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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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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I think it's just that Skynyrd songs are timeless.
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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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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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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.
