Song Quotes
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I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.
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People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.
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In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.
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We really take our music seriously and we take the band very seriously. But we have a lot of personality. So if we're going to write a song about kissing a girl, we're gonna write it. And people think we're a funny band, but we're just realistic, we put our personality into our lyrics.
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I think when black performers performed in blackface, they were kind of taking back slave songs, but it was still a little bit iffy because they were performing, a lot of times, for white audiences who found it hilarious.
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I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song.
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There is no way I will survive Mike Pence doing Carpool Karaoke. What song's he gonna sing? 'I Deported Your Grandmother?'
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Rock n' roll was a bad and evil thing. l remember once I was singing a Barry Manilow song, "Mandy," In the back seat of the car. It came on the radio, and I kind of sang with it, and I got smacked In the mouth because that song was "evil."
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When I write a song, the music comes from my spirit, which is very playful and optimistic, but then the lyrics come from my head, which is in a different space.
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A country song is a song about life.
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I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.
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Taking the higher ground can be difficult, so it really helps when you can write those feelings into a song.
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Funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story
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That's pretty much how every song of mine works - I start with gibberish and melody and phrasing. I speak it naturally first. And then I think about lyrics that fit into that.
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I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
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A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people.
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No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.
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When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.
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Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.
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I got the idea for the song 'Bad Company' when I saw a poster for the Jeff Bridges movie, and it reminded of an old Victorian picture that I'd once seen, and it said, 'Beware of bad company.' So I sat down at the piano and started to write the song.
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Maybe someday there will be a song I write that I never let see the light of day because I don't want it to be uncontainable and have to play it again. And I have written songs like that that are just for me. It's like writing a letter to someone you're angry at but never sending it and just putting it in a drawer.
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A song can take you to a special time in your life.
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This song is the last song we're playing in America, but we'll be back.
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It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.
