Songs Quotes
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There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.
Sarah Vaughan
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When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
Alicia Keys
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You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.
Kylie Minogue
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I always use the Rolling Stones as the whipping boy for this, but they still play old songs as 90% of their set, and we would die if that were the case.
Lee Ranaldo
Sonic Youth
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When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.
Hillary Scott
Lady Antebellum
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I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me.
Ethel Merman
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For me, the guitar was just a tool to make songs. I started when I was 10 - I learned what I had to learn to get my ideas across. I always felt I was a weak guitar player, but now I realize with the finger-picking stuff, I actually know how to do what I do with my songs, but I couldn't step in and be an overall guitar player. But my guitar playing has always been driven by the need to write songs.
Anna Ternheim
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Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive.
Stephen Malkmus
Pavement
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These are songs that we were working on around the time of recording Futures, but that just didn't seem to fit on the record.
Jim Adkins
Jimmy Eat World
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I get lots of requests from people to write sad songs, and I'm like, 'No, that's rubbish patter.'
Lewis Capaldi
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I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.
Andy Gibb
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I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
Freddie Mercury
Queen
