Song Quotes
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I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.
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As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.
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'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.
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I think it is your job as an artist to be able to hear a song.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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When I go out clubbing I can dance 'til three o'clock in the morning with just a water bottle in my hand. I love dancing to anything with a good beat really. My favorite song to dance to at the moment is probably Drake's 'Best I Ever Had.'
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I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you love shoes. So, for me, I think it's a really dangerous thing to say I'm going to write the best dance song in the world.
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Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.
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A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
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If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.
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Sailing is not a romantic song
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Once I come up with the concept, the rest of the song just comes.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
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Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I'm making music because we write it together and produce it together. I've got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it.
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There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.
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Gaily bedight,A gallant knight,In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long,Singing a song,In search of Eldorado.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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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.
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One day, I'm gonna make a song with John Mayer.
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With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.
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I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.
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I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
