Songs Quotes
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I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.
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Your power comes from the songs.
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I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.
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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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Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy.
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I'd say it ["I Can't Drive 55"] has probably been the most successful song I've ever been involved with, including any Van Halen songs.
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I'm a frustrated drummer. That's why our songs tended to be drum-heavy. But our harmonies were complex, too. You'll never hear 'Rag Doll' in a Holiday Inn lounge because it's just too hard to sing.
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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.
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I just think it's good to have a big, living, breathing piece of music that's not just songs.
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For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records.
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My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.
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Playing new songs at festivals is weird, obviously. People at festivals are always a bit drunk, and probably just want to hear stuff they know by bands they love, or are checking you out and don't know your stuff very well.
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I'm a big proponent of letting songs tell me what they wanna sound like.
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I wanted to protect the songs. I wanted to make sure I could write freely and not be self-conscious about it.
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People looked to Kurt Cobain because his songs captured what they felt before they knew they felt it.
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Maybe the songs that we sing are wrong, Maybe the dreams that we dream are gone, So bring it on home and it won't be long, It's getting better man!
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What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.
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There’s nothing submitted and nothing ready to go, but I can definitely tell you that there’s a project on the way. I just can’t tell you when it’s coming. I can tell you for sure that I will be releasing another single in the next two months. It’s one of my favorite songs that I’ve ever made. It probably is my very favorite song that I’ve ever made, nothing against “My Love.”
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I wonder what kinds of songs Preston's father sang to him." Zach raised his eyebrows. "I wonder if he's in a cell humming them to himself right now." I should have said something-done something. He was in a dark place, there in the moonlight. But before I could say a word, Zach took a deep breath and looked up at the fortress. "I wonder if I should join him.
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I've learned a lot about being in control of your career - and that being positive and believing in yourself goes a very long way. And creatively, the music needs to sound like it's come from you, not someone else who's choosing the songs for you.
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I always thought I wrote good bridges. I was a bit more impressed with the bridges I wrote than maybe the songs I wrote.
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How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far?
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My nickname is Dickie Jukebox. I own thousands and thousands and thousands of songs.
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I'm always writing new songs and doing them live, and I may do it for a week or two, and then never do it again.
