Song Quotes
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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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All those experiences were a chance to learn more about music. Playing with the Valley band is like such a "live" band. I mean, really, in many ways Bright Eyes is really a studio project. We form bands to tour, but it really is - you know, we take the songs and we figure out how to decorate them and it's all in the studio, we build the songs that way. Whereas Mystic Valley Band was the exact opposite, where everybody knows what they are gonna be playing on the song and there's sort of a general stylistic approach, and then it's just plug in and play.
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Sense is the song you sing out into the world, and the song the world sings back to you.
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When you're in the middle of writing a song, you can come up with this whole web of stuff only you know how to get through. That's very entertaining for me to do that.
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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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By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe - the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor - loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss.
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Sometimes, our brains just don't work that way. You see these people who have the world at their fingertips, and all the success you can imagine, but they still are depressed. That's kind of what that song is about: the American demons. Because even if you are the poorest American, you still are better off than a lot of areas in the world.
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Generally, I think of myself as a guitar player, but when I do find the right song to sing lead on, I try to do my best.
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I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever.
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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.
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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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You really have to love the song you’re working on so this carries through if it takes a few weeks to get every last detail right. So the key is, write what you like and don’t worry about getting your hands dirty.
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Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.
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I always say my role in Metallica is to support the song and to support my team, and whatever that means, I'm there for it.
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Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?
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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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I guess there are two things that make me like songs generally, of ours, and that is if they groove well, or if they have a jam that can go somewhere.
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If you really want me to be safe, maybe it's time." "I'd just feel safer if you'd start sleeping in a coffin." Just then my door creaked open. Billy's expression turned to surprise. "Get out!" I said, hopping off the bed. "Uh...we are making up lyrics to a song." But that didn't keep Billy out. Instead he was totally interested. "You're writing a song? That's so cool. I want to hear it." "It goes, 'Safer in a coffin, and if your brother doesn't leave, he'll be in one too.
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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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It's pretty intense to have someone the camera looming there when you are singing a song but it's sort of invigorating too.
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When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way.
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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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Nonbelievers may hear all the notes of science, but without a theistic context and perspective they will not hear the song.
