Song Quotes
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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.
Scott Adams
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At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.
James Beattie
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I think you just have to have some rapport with the song.
Eric Bachmann
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A lot of artists come into the game with a radio record, but they don't establish the fans as fans of their style of music. It's just that they're a fan of that song, and after that song plays out, it's real hard for 'em.
Nipsey Hussle
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Beyond telling a story, they are sensations that I sought to capture in the form of a song.
Silvana Estrada
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The best thing we've learned is when you are attempting to write a full song, write a full song that day. When we first started, we would have great ideas, but there's something about a moment and a vibe that's being created in time that when you return to it, it sometimes works, and it sometimes doesn't.
Jillian Hervey
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I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
Bradford Cox
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Take a deep breath, listen to your favorite song and realize everything is gonna be okay, nothing is permanent.
Camila Cabello
Fifth Harmony
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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.
Lee Seung-hyun
Big Bang
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Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically, you gotta have a throbbing pulse going. But as far as what it's all about, there's a million ways to go. You have to invent a new code for every song. Then you have to break it. It's like Scrabble or a crossword puzzle on steriods. I could talk about the process for days. But it's never dull and there's no one way in.
Dan Bern
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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.
Dan Bejar
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People are always going to have favorite albums or songs and you know that's more the listener's personal bias than basing it on anything musical or actual. I'm the same way as a listener.
Page Hamilton
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Sometimes an unexpected chord change can be the difference between a good song and a great song.
Gary Talley
The Box Tops
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'Victorious' for me was a chance to write a song exactly how I was feeling - I was feeling triumphant, I was feeling like I could do anything as long as I've got the people that I love by my side. We're gonna go out and conquer it, and party, and just be awesome.
Brendon Urie
Panic! at the Disco
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Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.
Joanne Rowling
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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.
Cecile McLorin Salvant
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I like messing up the song, doing some improvisation. And I like running around the room with the mic.
EMA
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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
