Song Quotes
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Every song is something that I've been through or an emotion I've felt - like falling in love or heartbreak.
Ashlee Simpson -
The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art
Alan Villiers
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The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.
Jason Mraz -
'Feel It Still' came around pretty much as organically as you can put a song together.
John Gourley Portugal. The Man -
My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.
Ricky Martin -
I'm on the Internet a lot more than I watch TV and most everybody I know is, and yet if you watch most late-night talk shows, it's as if it doesn't even exist. So the Internet, it's just something I wanted to make use of in some way. I was fascinated by what appeared to be a child singing this song. It just struck me as funny.
Jimmy Kimmel -
That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.
Slick Rick -
It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there.
Lucinda Williams -
When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist. I would grab a wooden spoon and I would start singing, even if it was for my uncles and my aunts. And I would just sing any lah-lah song.
Ricky Martin -
I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the same thing all the time.
Josh Young -
I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.
Lenny Kravitz -
It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.
Ray LaMontagne -
After that song came out, a lot of girls wanted to change their name to Julie... God bless 'em!
Bobby Sherman
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I tend to work on a song, generate ideas, and re-arrange it like five times, and I'm glad I take the time to do that, because I think my original songs come out better.
Britta Phillips -
The song tells me what to play.
Joe Walsh The Eagles -
Sometimes you're writing a song and you have an image whilst writing a song. I don't think you ever base a songwriting process around a video, but when you're writing a song sometimes it'll be a very visual song.
Luke Hemmings -
Sometimes I do 'So Desperate' solo in the middle of the set. I really love to sing that song.
John Darnielle -
When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn't really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about it.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe.
Jason Mraz -
Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!
Tom Stoppard -
Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.
Nat Hentoff -
Listen up, here’s our song, for the young, the lost, and the underdogs. We’re taking over. We get it right and we get it wrong. But we got used to staying strong. We’re taking over. We’re taking over now, yeah!
Beatrice Miller