Songs Quotes
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A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have no style, if the graves are vanishing under tasteless ornaments and inscriptions? Before an imagination sympathetic and respectful enough to conceal momentarily its aesthetic disdain, that dust may release a flock of souls, their beaks holding the still verdant dreams that gave them an inkling of the next world and let them rejoice or weep in this world.
Marcel Proust -
I was asked to do a test commercial shoot for an Apple product which didn't mean much to me at the time. Some music player that holds all your songs. Sounded cool to me and I never gave up an opportunity to work, especially with the possibility of it turning into a national commercial. Coolest job I did in that time.
Harry Shum, Jr.
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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.
Ally Carter -
I am very lucky I chose 100% of the songs on my show. My audience loves to hear absolute classics and I am in the wonderful position in being able to play them.
Jo Whiley -
I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.
Brett Dennen -
Songs don't really feel like me unless I somehow shed a little secret or open myself somehow or be vulnerable. When I'm singing these songs, it feels like me, and that comes with the vulnerabilities and the strengths and the moments of triumph or whatever.
Brett Dennen -
About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.
Rick Moranis -
So I just try to be me and feel the songs and feel the energy of the band with me.
Jeff Gutt Stone Temple Pilots
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It’s a lot of fun because we can do the songs in a different way and be a little more adventurous, so that feels really good y’know. And there’s the choice from 10 albums, over 100 songs, to figure out what the set is going to be.
Paul Waaktaar-Savoy -
Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out loud of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards. And people will say: 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring' and they'll say 'Oh yes, that's one of my favorite stories.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
One of my favorite things to do is to craft and to write songs and tell stories, and another thing is to really just flip out basically, and release kind of my unruly energies.
Eugene Hutz -
My music chart rankings need to be good so that I can have the money to produce another album. I would like to hear that I am a trustworthy artist, that just hearing my name makes people want to listen to all of my other songs.
Jeon Ji-yoon -
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.
Hakeem Seriki -
The songs are really stories and so you can tell them at any time in your life.
Nina Gordon
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When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
There's so many STP songs that are just classic to me, and just so influential in my musical growth.
Jeff Gutt Stone Temple Pilots -
I know a tree feels it when the wind blows through it. It probably goes, 'Chhhhhh, this is wonderful.' And that's how I feel when I'm singing some songs. It's wonderful.
Michael Jackson -
I feel really personally connected to all of the songs, so stepping back is really hard.
Hamilton Leithauser -
The live thing is separate from the record for me. I have to figure out a way to make the songs work live. It's always going to be different than it is on a record, because every record I've made, there are people playing parts on there that are not going to be coming on tour with me. As much as still feeling connected to it, it's more like rediscovering.
Eef Barzelay -
I can blame a lot of things for not writing songs, but cancer isn't one of them.
John Prine
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When you make timeless music - and I like to think that's what I'm doing - the fun part is picking the songs. You can clip and flop and mix and match, and when the record is timeless and it feels good, you know it's going to have the same appeal whether you put it out now or 10 years from now. That's what I'm about.
Raheem DeVaughn -
The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.
Steve Jobs -
There are a shitload of songs about being in love with someone who doesn't love you back and I talk about weed and my cat and being lazy a lot.
Bethany Cosentino -
I write songs simply because I get a kick out of making them exist. I'm also sort of addicted to the recording studio, and making albums is my idea of fun.
James Jackson Toth