Songs Quotes
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When you don’t need anything anymore, the only thing you need is stories, and songs, and beauty, and spectacle. That’s the good stuff. The stuff that reminds us who we are.
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People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.
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I remember writing ‘All I Want Is You' and hoping it would get me out of trouble. I haven't stopped writing songs or getting into trouble since.
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It's pretty crazy the amount of people that have covered my songs.
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I’ve learned to live with rage. In some ways, it’s my rage that keeps me going. Without it, I would have been whipped long ago. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing.
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The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.
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Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another; I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.
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Every girl wants songs written about her. Even the most hardened tattoo-covered punk rock girl would love a nice ballad written for her.
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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.
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Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.
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When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.
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Listening to songs is like eating and writing songs is like vomiting. You're putting a ton of stuff in, it combines in unpredictable ways, and comes back out in a big mess.
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I just being able to write songs I'm proud of and finding some women to play with is exciting.
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When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.
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I can blame a lot of things for not writing songs, but cancer isn't one of them.
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Songs are able to transport us all back to specific moments within our past, invoking people, places, feelings and emotions.
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It's the way I like to work for these kinds of songs like "Peace Trail". It was the right time of the month; everything was looking good.
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I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.
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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.
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I try to use other songs or bands as reference points - it seems like the easiest way to get across what are really differences of taste or opinion. If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.
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I feel really personally connected to all of the songs, so stepping back is really hard.
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I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
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People assume that a lot of pop artists don't write their songs. That, for me, is super frustrating because I think it detracts from some of the art and some of the craft of what we do. I'm at the helm of it, and I think that is what people don't see.
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I have confidence in the songs that I've written and I'm not going to change anything.
