Song Quotes
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It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.
Jason Mraz
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With 'Philharmonics,' I had to do a lot of interviews, and it was like I was corrupting something. In many ways, I've said everything in the song. And either I can't go back to what it was because it's changing when I play it, or I still haven't figured out what the song is about.
Agnes Obel
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I heard the Abbey Lincoln song 'The World is Falling Down,' and it just resonated with me so deeply.
James Edward Olliges Jr.
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There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than writing about heartbreak and relationships.
Lisa Loeb
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I remember people telling me that at 5 1/2 minutes long, 'Lightning Crashes' would never be a hit song.
Ed Kowalczyk
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No one wants to play music in a basement by themselves ... So when someone says, ‘This is my song,’ ... that feels so good.
Jerrod Niemann
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If I come across an issue, or something I feel strongly about, and I happen to think of a song that would go in that direction, then I do it. But that's not what I start out, necessarily, to do. Sometimes I may have an idea for a song - "Well, I'm going to write about a thing.
Charlie Daniels
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The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song.
Dave Matthews
Dave Matthews Band
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I've always loved that, on all the Dylan and Springsteen and Marley and Neil Young reissues that they've done: It's so cool to hear alternate versions and how the song started in their mind.
James Edward Olliges Jr.
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A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other
Sean O'Casey
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You kind of have to celebrate the moment that you get to create something that you love that falls into the parameters of a 3-minute-and-20-second song, to try to be creative inside of those parameters.
Tyler Joseph
Twenty One Pilots
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It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous.
Andy Biersack
Black Veil Brides
