Song Quotes
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The song writing is different because with this stuff, I write it on my own and with Hot Water, we're more of a collective and I love both sides of that. Honestly, it's two different animals but I love and respect them both and feel really honored to be blessed with people who care about it and come out and support both sides of it.
Chuck Ragan -
The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.
Melissa Etheridge -
I have a hard time memorizing stuff. I'm always in the process of writing a new song, so trying to learn a new one takes a minute.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil' -
There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.
Miriam Makeba -
I would INSIST this record is in NO WAY COLD influenced. Don't get me bent though, I have been a huge fan of Cold from day one. One of the best most awesome song writers. Kelly has in OWN sound, He recorded on the POINT OF ORIGIN Record so there, of course, will be something that familiarizes the Cold sound. But Allele is much heavier, and just kind of warmer, different techniques and a different sound all together. Allele I think is more intense.
Wally Wood -
I hate it when you buy a record for the single and find out that is the only good song on the album.
Christian Burns -
Libertarianism is 'cultish,' say the sophisticates. Of course, there's nothing cultish at all about allegiance to the state, with its flags, its songs, its mass murders, its little children saluting and paying homage to pictures of their dear leaders on the wall, etc.
Thomas Woods
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I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.
Reba McEntire -
There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal.
John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates -
She’s got an indiscreet voice,” I remarked. “It’s full of-“ I hesitated. “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.
Clark Gable -
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.
Lauren Mayberry Chvrches -
Sing such a song with all of your heart that you'll never have to sing again.
Kabir
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If you're writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you're reading a poem that's written for the page, your eye can skip up and down. You can see the thing whole. But you're not going to see the thing whole in the song. You're going to hear it in series, and you can't skip back.
James Fenton -
Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.
John Podhoretz -
Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair.
Robert Hunter Grateful Dead -
The Beatles. I didn't like the first couple of songs, but when I heard "She Loves You', it was like something went off in my head.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.
Sharon Stone -
I got this book called 'How to Write the Popular Song.' I read that and went through all the things they suggested, and I learned how to do it.
Leon Russell
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Radio has had my back since 'Missin' You Crazy,' which was a very traditional kind of song.
Jon Pardi -
The very first song I ever wrote was called 'I See Between The Trees,' when I was 9. It was really bad.
Little Simz -
A lot of people felt that I was just tying that into the "I Want Your Sex" theme because of the AIDS thing and the prospect of the song's being banned. I thought it was a relevant point to make because of the AIDS thing. I wanted to write a song which sounded dirty but which was applicable to someone that I really cared about. That was my point.
George Michael -
I worked at Johnny Rockets. For one day. I had to quit because they said that anytime a particular song comes on the jukebox, all the servers have to stop and do this special sing-along and dance, and I just knew that I wouldn't be returning.
Adam Scott