Song Quotes
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The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side.
Michel Platini
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I don't think it's an artist's responsibility to be political all the time. I think your first responsibility as an artist is to make music that people will listen to and enjoy. However, I think that when you are able to say something that is moving and put it in a great song, then that is even better.
John Roger Stephens
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You know how it is - you make songs, and as you make the new ones, the old ones get old and you throw them out.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Bad Meets Evil'
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And religious music and the sort of symbolism of it and everything. But I had this idea. Actually, I sort of dreamt it. I woke up - just before waking up one morning, I sort of dreamt this song or the idea of it and the first little bit of it. And I jumped out of bed and I thought, well, you're still asleep. You're going to forget this in a minute - you know, like you do when you've had a dream.
Nick Lowe
Brinsley Schwarz
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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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What do you want me to do,
To watch for you,
To see you through?
A box of rain will ease the pain,
and love, will see you through.
Robert Hunter
Grateful Dead
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You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment.
Phil Collins
Genesis
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Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.
Sharon Jones
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We went for the best overall feel on each song. There are no musical overdubs at all. It's a true live record; it's one of the few true live records out there.
Ben Harper
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I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of these disturbing realities about the world, some of the implications of evolution into an artistic format that can be interpreted by people who may never study evolution.
Gregory Walter Graffin
Bad Religion
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Whenever I like a new song, I play it on loop and dance to it. That's my therapy.
Alia Bhatt
