Songs Quotes
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As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.
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Sometimes you have trouble because someone 'likes' your music so much. They follow you around for hours singing little bits of the songs, or just freaking out.
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My nickname is Dickie Jukebox. I own thousands and thousands and thousands of songs.
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About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.
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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.
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I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.
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Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.
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Radio in the U.K. is so formulaic. You've got commercial stations who play the same 20 songs all day.
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Winnowing is more like a trip to the confessional...transparent & vulnerable without being sentimental. These songs have elements that are more like prayers & pleas for faith. They're questionings and wrangling in the dark about the journey.
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I hate making videos. Songs are not visual. You get it out of the air. You don't watch it on MTV.
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I recorded songs with a great deal of meaning, songs of lasting material. That's the legacy I want to leave behind - a legacy of love.
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When I get home and turn on the radio, I hear songs that are new to me, but to everybody else they're old. I try to keep the music fresh in my head.
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The history of a people are found in its songs.
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We're going to go and play the songs one more time. It seems like the right time, so I figure we'll go out and play a few gigs and see where it goes. I think we might just show up in assorted places in the U.S. in the next few months without much notice and play some clubs and little theaters, and then go to Europe and play these festival gigs. Beyond that, we don't know at this point.
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We always make our records really quickly, and this time we're gonna just slow it all down. Usually we write 12 or 13 songs, and then we just record them and that's it. We'd like to write, like, 40 songs and really spend a lot more time writing than we ever have.
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The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level.
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I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
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We can't wait to play our new songs live
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I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.
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I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.
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I think she could have infused even Spice Girls songs with a touch of melancholy. (On Billie Holiday)
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When you first start a band all you think about and spend your time doing is writing songs, play shows, in the simplest way and the simplest formation of the band. It's about the gear, and that guitar that one day you will buy. It's a beautiful time. I'm grateful for having that time. Then life flips upside down, all of a sudden you are strapped to a rocket ship, you get a hit, then it is tough to keep grounded.
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My voice makes the genre because I sound like me on all my songs - I've made my own genre: Jorja Smith.
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I know so many songs. I'm like a walking karaoke torture machine.
