Song Quotes
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I've been to New Zealand before, many times. And of course it has a significance to me because I do have something that's very special in New Zealand. I have 10 Guitars, which is a very popular song, and I understand it's like the second national anthem over there.
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I have definitely written a happy song about someone and then we ended up splitting up, but you have to put those kind of things to the back of your mind and tell yourself that it's a good song and it works on the album.
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You could hear a song, and if you didn't like it, well, you didn't listen to it.
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We want to pull out songs from the American song book, and we want to make them palatable for a modern audience.
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What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?
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Songs come when they wanna come and I'll work at it when I feel like working at it. There are some songwriters that write every day, and I'm definitely not one of those guys. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. It's just kind of what I do.
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If you write to a title, the song sort of writes itself. I don’t find making music to be too problematic. It’s all the third party nonsense surrounding music that I don’t deal with so well.
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The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to be more "me."
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In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good.
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Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart
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I embrace everybody, but you work everybody and each song at a time to who it is for. I believe that's how you build a palace. You build a palace one block at a time and then you'll have what you want. That's how it goes.
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You don't really know a song until you play it live.
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"Animal" is my favorite song because it's a reminder for me every night when I step on to stage that I am no longer a slave to fear. It's something I need to be reminded of constantly because fear is relentless. It will always continue to swing at me and this song is my armor and defense. It's my anthem in a sense to say fear will not hinder me anymore.
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I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written
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No one worries about genre when they're dancing. They're not asking themselves, 'Is this song a dubstep song?'
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Every redneck's dream is to write a song and have it go on a fishing show.
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It has different feels to it, like the song has different tempos and intensities, and Sam pulled it off.
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The production pushes and pulls you as much as the song does. It's almost more to do with the production value of how each bit was done as opposed to the actual track itself.
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Normally you'll have a structure to a song. You'll have an intro to a verse to a pre-chorus to a chorus, kinda repeat that, maybe there's a bridge, then you'll go out on a chorus - that's the quintessential song structure - sometimes you might do a fake-out, re-do a pre-chorus but the chorus doesn't come until later, but for the most part you follow these tried and true structures.
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It's a humbling and amazing journey when you write a song in your bedroom, and you've got no money, and you're trying to write a song based on where you're at right at this moment.
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I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit.
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To die, so young to die. No, no, not I, I love the warm sunny skies, light, song, shining eyes, I want no war, no battle cry, No, no, not I.
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'Twas easy following where invention trod - All eyes can see when light flows out from God. And thus did Jubal to his race reveal Music their larger soul, where woe and weal Filling the resonant chords, the song, the dance, Moved with a wider-winged utterance.
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This song 'All Aboard,' that tune allowed me to expand and kind of offer my audience something totally different because it's not bachata - I'm singing English, and that was really fun.
