Song Quotes
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
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It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure aside and just let the creativity flow and see what came out.
Christina Perri
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The first thing I did when I got inside was turn on the kitchen light. Then I moved to the table, putting my dad's iPod on the speaker dock, and a Bob Dylan song came on, the notes familiar. I went into the living room, hitting the switch there, then down the hallway to my room, where I did the same. It was amazing what a little noise and brightness could do to a house and a life, how much the smallest bit of each could change everything. After all these years of just passing through, I was beginning to finally feel at home.
Sarah Dessen
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Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.
Wayne Coyne
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Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.
Nelson Eddy
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'God Made Girls' was such a success for me. I'm so blessed to have over half a million downloads on that song. I was the highest-charting new female in 2014, and I couldn't have done that without Big Machine and their support.
RaeLynn
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I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She's sort of become my fairy godmother.
Ariana Grande
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I'm singing this song for you and your mum that's all,And it won't be long before everyone is gone.
Liam Gallagher
Oasis
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You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
Garth Brooks
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What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
Daisy Berkowitz
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I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.
Banks
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No matter what, I will always hope for that day when I look around and can say, 'Oh yeah, I wrote a song that touched me emotionally the way that a song like 'She's Got A Way,' by Billy Joel did.'
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
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I became inspired while I was listening to music on the radio. I felt the music in my head sounded better, so I turned off the radio and scribbled it down on a piece of paper. I remember that it was in May. People liked that song. They said it was beautiful. I felt overjoyed.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
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I didn't know how to play guitar until I was 21, but from the moment I was good enough on guitar to even put one song together, I kind of billed myself as an artist.
Luke Combs
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
Anton Zaslavski
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
Victoria Aveyard
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When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
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'Dear Mama' is my favorite song from Tupac, man. It touches you, and I think that that's the most important thing with music.
Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
