Song Quotes
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We should write an elegy for every day that has slipped through our lives unnoticed and unappreciated. Better still, we should write a song of thanksgiving for all the days that remain-now that we know how to cherish them.
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People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.
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I enjoy making music alone, and I like keeping my options open for how I release my own songs.
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Lights are to drama what music is to the lyrics of a song. The greatest part of my success in the theatre I attribute to my feeling for colors, translated into effects of light.
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True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best.
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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.
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Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart
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Sing such a song with all of your heart that you'll never have to sing again.
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So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
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Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know, I've written a whole song in an hour.
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Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.
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This song goes out to Robin Williams. It's called 'Last Hope'.
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My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home.
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Justin Hayward was a teenager when he was drafted into the Moody Blues in 1966. He brought with him one song he had written for his girlfriend. This was called 'Nights in White Satin,' which subsequently made a fortune for a lot of people.
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Once I finish a song, it's done and it's on the album.
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There are some songs we do, like "Last Chance," I love it! But sometimes you just don't like your voice on certain things.
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Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!
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The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to be more "me."
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When the heart grows weary, all things seem dreary; When the burden grows heavy, the way seems long. Thank God for sending kind death as an ending, Like a grand Amen to a minor song.
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I like textures and tones. Sometimes, it will be a melodic feedback from a song or something. I like warm, ethereal sounds. That kind of gets covered in every genre of music, so it could be a rock sample, jazz, soul, reggae.
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I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.
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The sun rose yellow as a lemon.The sky was round and blue.The birds looped clear water songs in the air.Will and Jim leaned from their windows.Nothing had changed.Except the look in Jim's eyes.Last night. . . said Will. Did or didn't it happen?
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Nobody ever knows how big a song is going to be.
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'Freebird' is an anthem, and 'Simple Man' is a very nice song.
