Song Quotes
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It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.
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I wouldn't even say "Imagine" is political. I think it's…more just sort of declaration of humanity. I don't find his political songs to be the ones that I go home and listen to. And I would say that of any artist. They're not the ones that interest…
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Progressive rock is a flexible medium for dramatic storytelling because it lends itself perfectly to the extended song format.
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I think there are people that still hold on that like Heavy Metal like a bit of what is going on now, but it isn't all of what they love and which goes on and it's the same with me... There's still a lot of Ray Charles, Sam Cooke songs that I still happen to like a lot, but then there are a lot of Madonna and... a lot of the female singers that I like as well, but it's like liking it with different emotions, you know.
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For me, as an actor, it is brilliant that I can do both song-dance films and also something like 'NH10.' It is versatility which every actor aspires.
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I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
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Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
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Our shows have always been sort of an all-generations thing, people from 6 to 60. The other night, we played a show and we had a woman who was probably 70 to 75 years old, and she was there alone and she was singing every song. On the other end of the spectrum, there was a 7-year-old on his dad's shoulders and the dad is singing along.
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I want a song that raises the hair on the back of my neck when I sing it live and I want to feel it every time.
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I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I wrote them. I think this is more interesting any way in art.
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You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.
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Oh sure, the songs have all totally evolved. I mean, when you're playing the same songs night in night out, they take on a life of their own. I can't even remember what I wrote some of them about now!
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Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?
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Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?
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To me, music's something I can dance to or listen to. To write about it is always more of what the music represents, or what it reflects. Like an ideal song, to me, is a song that you can dance to, that summons up some darker and greater mystery.
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When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with reality, temporarily insane and the result: a song!
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I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.
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Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.
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I think it was Tommy who told me, 'When your song is called 'XYZ' or whatever, every line has got to make sense against your title.' He showed me little methods of proving to yourself whether the line belongs, and ways of finding out whether you were able to get more out of a line if you tried.
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I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.
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I feel like emotional content is the most important of any song, for any artist.
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...there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means He chose to succor them; through the spirit of a child, a poor gypsy or an old man, by a song perhaps, or even it might be by the fall of a leaf or the scent of a flower. For His infinite and humble patience nothing was too small to advance His purpose of salvation and eternity was not too long for its accomplishment.
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We were working 'Good Teacher' up, and it became apparent to me that, as we were playing it, the song had a Hendrix, 'Crosstown Traffic' vibe and feel to it.
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You end up throwing a ton of energy into one or two tracks, and the song that we thought was gonna be the single isn't the single.
