Song Quotes
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'The Shepherd Boy’s Song', in Part II, Ch. VI : The Valley of Humiliation; comparable to: 'I am not now in fortune's power: He that is down can fall no lower', Samuel Butler, Hudibras (1663), Part i, Canto iii, Line 877
John Bunyan
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Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears.
Alice McDermott
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There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.
Stevie Wonder
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Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.
Paul Simon
Simon & Garfunkel
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The problem is that once I start on a song and get a rough idea of where I might go with an arrangement, I try dozens, sometimes hundreds, of different things on a song. The bass, the backing guitars, the lead guitars, the keyboards. It's a long process. It's like 100 steps forward and 99 steps back.
Tom Scholz
Boston
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Oh you who read some song I have sung What know you of the soul from whence it sprung
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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We'll be in our 60s performing 'Push It' somewhere. Good old 'Push It.' I don't know what it is about that song.
Pepa
DJ Spinderella
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Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow . . . Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Glory in all the facts of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you.
Helen Keller
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A lot of the songs I write are like songs that I've never been able to find on any record, but that I've always wanted to hear. Or maybe in a style I already loved, but I was looking for something in it that I wasn't hearing yet.
Ryan Adams
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Basically I can't sleep without every single song I'm writing repeating endlessly, but I'm loving it again. Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew!
Lady Gaga
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For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don't necessarily belong exclusively in a pop song.
Kevin Parker
Tame Impala
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I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.
Reba McEntire