Song Quotes
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Oftentimes the most produced and synth-tastic songs are the ones that end up sounding the best acoustic.
Emily Haines
Broken Social Scene
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Things that excite me are these four different bands: Wire, with a song called 'Champs,' Misfits, with a song called 'Hybrid Moments,' R. Stevie Moore, and Wipers 'Wait A Minute.'
Albert Hammond, Jr.
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I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song.
Bruno Mars
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In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.
Boy George
Culture Club
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Think about when you listen to a song on the radio. You are not paying for it; it's not illegal to do it, because the rights have been paid for on top, beforehand, by the radio station, by the network. We have to find exactly the same kind of system with the Internet.
Jean-Michel Jarre
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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
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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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Every artist and every song has an idea, and the producer's job is to capture it.
Jimmy Iovine
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At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.
Etta James
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The editing of a song is largely what makes the song for me and I think that actually if I had started going like 'I want you to burn' it would have pinned that song down to a particular thing and made that song a smaller idea than what it is. By leaving that off it's much more open, broader.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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When 'Quadrophenia' came out, I turned on to that because of the whole story with it, and there were just some really amazing songs on there. 'Love Reign' being the quintessential song on that record, I think. That was always one of the cornerstones of my temple, that song.
Ann Wilson
Heart
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I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs. It's really hard trying to use the format and write a pop song on top of avant-garde music, so we'll see. It could be cool, or it could totally flop.
Arthur Ashin
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If you're bored of the songs, you're bored of the songs. There's not much you can do.
Thomas Edward Yorke
Atoms for Peace
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But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.
Scott Weiland
Stone Temple Pilots
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I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.
Charles Hartshorne
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I never really liked Minor Threat. Actually, I kind of thought they sucked. And then Daniel came into practice one day and said, 'Oh, let's play a song it's called Minor Threat.' And I just thought, 'I don't want to play that fucking song!' And then I said, 'Yeah, I will do it.' And then we were playing it. And it's, like, grand and I ended loving this song and started listening to more of their stuff. I love them and they are great.
Ben Gillies
Silverchair
