Songs Quotes
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Songs are special. Songs are like trees. You plant these seeds and watch them grow, and you never know how people are going to respond. That's one of the most beautiful things about music.
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The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.
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A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.
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I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used bits of it in the film. It would be nice to score a movie one day.
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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.
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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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Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.
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I know so many songs. I'm like a walking karaoke torture machine.
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To me, there are 3 parts of the album process: writing, recording, and my favorite part: getting to sing the songs with the fans every night.
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Everything I do is about setting up for the next. I think that my confidence and belief in myself as well as the music and trusting my judgment of my songs really grew the most.
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I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.
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No matter what you do for a living you should get paid for your work, whether you're washing dishes or recording songs.
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When slow songs do play, people joke that you should be able to fit "the standard works" between you and your partner. The standard works is a Mormon term referring to all of the religious books we study. So when you're slow dancing, the Old Testament, New Testament, The Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price should be able to fit in the space between you and your dance partner -- or you're dancing too close.
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The songs we sing invite the participation of the listener, who is central to finding a way of creating the life of the song at that listening. It's the difference between poetry and didactic writing. One tells you, 'This is it,' and the other says, 'Let's find this together.'
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This music has been around since before the beard on Moses. I happed to do it very well and I happen to have a lot of groovy songs that I know people are going to dig. I know more about it than you do.
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Nas' longevity comes from him having strong lyrical value in his songs, him being more like a poet and improving over time.
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I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93.
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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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But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.
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Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world.
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I was so young when the Killers started. I was 21. I'm proud of those songs, but there's no way I would write 'Somebody Told Me,' as I get older. Especially after having kids.
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It's fun to play characters in songs. I can just cheat a little bit... be this person for just a small amount of time and just help vent that idea.
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When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.
