Songs Quotes
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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.
Bethany Cosentino
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Look for things marked positive to you, like songs, because all dem things are right.
Bob Marley
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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.
Engelbert Humperdinck
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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.)
Walt Whitman
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Songs are able to transport us all back to specific moments within our past, invoking people, places, feelings and emotions.
David Longdon
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Desperate times make for desperate songs.
Ezra Furman
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I'm a bit of a book worm, so a lot of the songs I write are inspired by books.
Brooke Fraser
Hillsong Worship
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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
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Our songs hinge on dynamics — big, chaotic, crashing moments and soft, sensitive moments…Some songs have both, some one or the other. But a lot of them have both.
Nathan Willett
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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.
John Prine
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The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.
Stephen Malkmus
Pavement
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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.
Bethany Cosentino
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It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?"
Bethany Cosentino
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The songs are really stories and so you can tell them at any time in your life.
Nina Gordon
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The whole time you're bouncing ideas off each other, you continue to try and push the songs as far as you can take them and make them the best that they can be.
Benji Madden
Good Charlotte
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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
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Bob Dylan - I will listen to any of his songs over and over.
Ben Miller
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But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.
Harvey Fierstein
