Song Quotes
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I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know.
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There's nothing worse than looking out and seeing some guy with his arms crossed while you're singing your heart out on a new song, and he's going, 'When are they going to do 'Me and My Gang?''
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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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Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!
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No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.
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I can sit and dissect for hours, and then write 50 songs about. I always find that inspiring.
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Despite what I say in my songs, its never okay for a man to put his hands on a female.
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The myriad of ways that a song can be interpreted is astounding to me, and it's part of the allure of writing.
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Generally, if you could picture a bunch of rock and roll momentum behind a song and it was particularly melodious, maybe the Pornographers would do it. If it was kind of moody and more lyrical, then maybe it would be a Destroyer song. Anything that's really lyrically driven I would keep for Destroyer.
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Everyone has a song in him.
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Every artist and every song has an idea, and the producer's job is to capture it.
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Only joy comes from song.
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Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do in these areas.' As I start looking around me, looking at things in ways that I can become helpful, starting at the first thing, water. Something as simple as water.
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I wanted the song to contain various meanings, and what I wanted in particular was to appeal to the audience with my charms as a man.
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I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.
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There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written.
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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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Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.
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A song like "Walkabout", it's totally imitative. The goal of that song was to make people happy, and I've never really made a song to make people happy before. I really genuinely wanted people to listen to that song and have their spirits lifted.
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'Endless Love' is such a perfect love song for a wedding or for a Valentine, because that is the committed kind of endless love. All the lyrics are perfect.
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History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.
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A country song is a song about life.
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You know...sometimes I'll be looking out at the audience and I'll be in the middle of a song, and I'll just stop dead. I'll look out at them, and think what is this... There's one thing that keeps me doing it though, I really love it, I believe in it.
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And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
