Songs Quotes
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So I just try to be me and feel the songs and feel the energy of the band with me.
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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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One of those Christmas songs says, "You better not shout, you better not cry, you better not pout." How's my wife going to get along?
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In my concerts, I'm always doing new songs, so someone seeing me for the first time or many times before will be pleasantly surprised and hopefully entertained.
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Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturned love; But now I think there is no unreturned love—the pay is certain, one way or another; (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not returned; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)
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I'm a bit of a book worm, so a lot of the songs I write are inspired by books.
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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.
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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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My favorite record of all time is Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. It's made up of a bunch of songs that don't really sound the same, but they all go really well together.
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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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There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.
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I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.
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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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The songs are really stories and so you can tell them at any time in your life.
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Contrary to popular belief, maybe, I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people. And I'm not really super impressed even if you're my hero; I can just rap with you and we can hang. I'm not gonna like sit there and bite my lip and ask questions about certain songs - okay I might do that once or twice. But it's just, like, two people hanging out.
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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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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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'The Ways of a Woman in Love' is one of my very favorite early Johnny Cash songs. I like the way the lyric talks about the character walking by the girl's house and wishing he was the one in her arms.
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We can guarantee you that 15 to 30 seconds of any of our songs are going to be good. The rest, we can't guarantee.
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Sometimes when you sing someone else's song over and over again or songs that have been given to you, you're afraid to go out there and write one yourself.
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Look for things marked positive to you, like songs, because all dem things are right.
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Desperate times make for desperate songs.
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I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.
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I feel really personally connected to all of the songs, so stepping back is really hard.
