Songs Quotes
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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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I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.
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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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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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I know so many songs. I'm like a walking karaoke torture machine.
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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
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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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If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
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Artists have been getting ripped off since the beginning of time, probably. But on the other hand, it might be nice to write songs. We certainly could.
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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 approach is a bit unconventional because it kind of turns things around. I made a promise to myself at a very early stage that I wasn't going to try and force something into a specific shape. It's a process where I allow the songs to go where they want to go and it doesn't really fit into any kind of genre.
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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.
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I'm not particularly worried by any of the songs we've written in the past, except for some of the really early stuff which is total tripe.
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I'm hoping to play some of the songs that we didn't get to play on the headline tour we just did. I think we really want to play all the songs on the new record. It's hard to choose between them, but I think we'll pick a couple that we haven't played live so far.
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Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.
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My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.
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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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Your power comes from the songs.
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They write songs about California girls for a reason.
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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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I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.
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Sometimes, songs spill out of you very fast, and sometimes you have to wrangle them to the floor. But the same thing is true of comedy, where sometimes it really flows.
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I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.
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People really respond to the songs when I play them in concert. Every song comes from a different place emotionally or from a different headspace.
