Songs Quotes
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I write simple songs, and people like that. They're mature enough to appeal to people who aren't teenage girls. Most of my fans are older, and it's nice to think the songs can appeal to middle-aged men and women.
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Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world.
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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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I love when people will say, "Oh, my songs are my children." I understand that, but I'm also not afraid to kill my kids. I know when the time has come to throw it in the trash can. With a child you've got to go to therapy and put it in daycare and buy it birthday presents. With a song, you can shove it in a dark closet and tell it you'll be there when you're ready.
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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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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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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 always sang Leona Lewis covers, and if you know her songs, she's not just singing your average easy song; she's going off the majority of the time.
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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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You know, the songs that are self-conscious or jerky, they are that way, but the other ones aren't, so that's a good thing. Some of the songs are Beck-jokey, but the others, they have heart in them.
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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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My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.
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My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me.
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I don't want to change the way I write my songs, I like the way I write my songs, so I keep 'em the same. I'd like to write more country songs, but other than that, I'm pretty good where I am.
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I think that including information about the songs inside a booklet within the album helps to enrich the listening experience and appreciation of the songs for the listener.
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That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.
