Song Quotes
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I am not one of those writers that just does songwriting one way. Personally, I think the best song will pop out all at once, because it's this feeling that the words fit the music so cleanly. When you really have a complete thought, and you always yearn for that as a songwriter. You always work for that.
Crosby Loggins
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Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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It costs $2,500 to purchase a song and I know from experience that I like to score with songs.
Allan Moyle
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I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.
Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
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Every song is different.
Darrell Lance Abbott
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I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!
Erin McKeown
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I wonder what would have happened if automation and computers had existed when 'Oklahoma!' was having its out-of-town try-out, and three days before closing in Boston, when it was still called 'Away We Go,' they added a new song called 'Oklahoma!' I don't think that could happen today. It's almost impossible to change musicals on the go now.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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A lot of big whoever producers, they come with a song and they say, 'Sing this,' and I'm not that girl.
Estelle
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Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.
Sarah Dessen
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While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform old songs. I do, all the time, but I don't think it is artistically brave.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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Crossfire's done very well. I knew it was a great song, but I didn't know it would be so big.
Brandon Flowers
The Killers
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I write the songs first and in most cases teach myself the technique second.
Joe Satriani
Chickenfoot
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After the song for sausage Party was finally done, we didn't have enough time, but we thought it would be fun. It also would've thrown it off a bit, because we really are doing more of an homage to Pixar, and if we filled it with songs, it would've felt more like Disney. And we had an experience, while we were making it, that going too Disney made it too weird.
Evan Goldberg
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When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.
Iwan Rheon
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Well, this is shortly after the idea was put to me because it wasn't my idea to do a Christmas record. We can talk about that a little bit, if you like, later on. But I wrote that song actually about two days after the idea was put to me.
Nick Lowe
Brinsley Schwarz
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I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story.
Stephen Sondheim
