Songs Quotes
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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.
Matt Redman -
When I was young there was a bunch of girls that was really scared and that's why I made these songs and I would love to scare them.
Hasil Adkins
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If we found some other dude, to sing I'd love to move on. Write some cool tunes and change the name and go on like that. I don't see continuing as Alice and replacing somebody. We're not trying to replace Layne. We want to play these songs one more time, and if it seems like the right thing to do, it'll happen. I don't know how long it will go or where it will take us. It's kind of a tribute to Layne and our fans, the people who love these songs. It's not some 'I'm broke and I need the money' situation. We love playing together.
Sean Howard Kinney Alice in Chains -
I'll always be making music. I'd like to do it my whole life - although I also love words and want to write short stories. But right now, my songs are kind of my short stories.
Evan Dando -
With writing music and writing songs and recording music and coming up with stuff, you need to kind of reengage that kind of inner child to come up with interesting perceptions.
Michael Kiwanuka -
People are always surprised to find this out, but the songs that we write, such as 'Winner of a Losing Game' and things like that, tend to be more country than the other stuff that we cut from outside writers.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
It seems to be really trendy to get excited about a random-ass radio song. Which, I like radio songs, don't get me wrong. But I'm just confused at which ones seem to be heralded as some sort of genius-like concoction. It doesn't totally make sense to me.
Ed Droste -
I think there were a couple really good songs on 'Whirlygig.
Nancy Wilson Heart
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I respect the Stones but their songs are a pile of crap. As for U2, they don’t say a lot or seem like normal persons.
Liam Gallagher Oasis -
The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation.
Peter Yarrow -
I love it. I'd do it again any time, and I'm sure we'll do it for other records. It was awesome. We met cool people and got some really good songs out of it.
Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish -
I never put myself in a box. I like to have various different types of songs and different genres and situational songs. No matter is going on, I have something for that time or era.
Adrian Marcel -
When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.
Alan Menken -
My original intention was to use it just for improvised, soundscape-y stuff, but I ended up falling in love with it. So I put it on a lot of the songs. It's not anything that I'm proficient on, but in the studio, if I spend a day working it, I can shimmy my way around.
Chad VanGaalen
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It was a very lucky set of incidents that led to Wham! getting a record contract - although we weren't Wham! when we got the record contract. We were nothing; we were just two friends who had written a few songs.
George Michael -
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.
Chuck Ragan -
In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.
Estelle -
The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.
Paul Westerberg The Replacements -
When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did it: me on the piano, playing a couple of songs I'd written and talking to the people in between. That's how I got my performance chops up.
Alicia Keys -
In all my songs, I take on roles and play characters. It's a unique way to explore ideas and decisions I might not think or make in real life.
Jack White The White Stripes
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All my songs mean something to me.
Roddy Ricch -
When we first started out we only had five or six songs we could play live, so if we ever got an encore, we used to do our cover of City High's 'What Would You Do?' We'd be playing it and people's mouths would be moving singing all the words, but they'd be thinking, Where is this song from? It's such a brilliant pop song but the lyrics are so dark.
Dan Smith -
I think 'Bittersweet' is one of the best songs ever written. The idea of it just really spoke to me.
Joshua Ostrander -
I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.
Jimmy Webb