Song Quotes
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In my view, madness is a place. You go. You come back. And I think we all take turns being the mental patient. Without a touch of crazy, literature can be a desolate place. In the current climate of careful speech, even fearful speech, smoke-free film scripts, thought-free songs, and child-proof locks on American minds, the oft-repeated lament of the arts is "Where have all those wonderful madmen gone?"
Carol O'Connell
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I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because you can over-think something, and you've squeezed the life out of it. As opposed to work of art, it looks like a really great work of craftsmanship.
Boots Riley
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You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.
Ernest Jennings Ford
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I've always been into writing love songs.
Sammy Hagar
Van Halen
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We proved to the world that a completely Spanish song can take over the world.
J Balvin
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I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. I crazily see the way out of a terrible situation. I crazily try to be the diplomat. If there are two warring factions in my life, I want them to agree to disagree at the very least.
Michael Stipe
R.E.M.
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In a way, the songs are written to be performed. I put them on records, but I'm always thinking about how an audience would react to it. I realized at age 7 that I wanted to be a performer, and I used to do that, and occasionally I'll get an acting job. I don't really make much of a living as an actor, but it's fun to do it when I get a job.
Loudon Wainwright III
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"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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I know the world doesn't need maybe another of a particular type of song - the same thing again - but you can't help yourself. And some people like it, but you kind of know in your heart that it's a lesser version of what you've done before. But maybe it has a good tempo, or it feels fresh, but it's still not.
Stephen Malkmus
Pavement
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After my first No. 1 song back in 2006, I worried I may never have another one.
Jason Aldean
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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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I couldn't make every song about Texas because it wouldn't be new; it wouldn't be a breath of fresh air.
Hakeem Seriki
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It has different feels to it, like the song has different tempos and intensities, and Sam pulled it off.
Tré Cool
Green Day
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It's such a strange marriage, a song and someone that sings it. When that works, it really works, and when it doesn't, it doesn't.
Chris Stapleton
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There were a few times where people would be like ‘Make another song like ‘Falling,I have more to offer. I just want to show people that.
Trevor Daniel
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That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.
Lenny Kravitz
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I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in examining all the nuances and idiosyncrasies of particular stories of everyday people. And if that doesn't happen, then I usually transplant myself and my own stories to a particular historical event. Which is why you'll see me, the first person pronoun, interacting in a song about Carl Sandburg, or you'll find my [sic] interacting with Saul Bellow. It's sort of a re-rendering of history and making it my own.
Sufjan Stevens
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Every song is like a reflection of some emotions and words that we wanted to say to someone else, or some currents of life that went through our brains.
Nicolas Godin
Air
