Song Quotes
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Life's a song,sing it
Mother Teresa
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It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song
Nick Cannon
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My hope is that no matter your mood there is on a Joyride albom a song on there that speaks to you.
Tinashe
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Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
David Bowie
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You don't know how a song is gonna do; you don't know where it's gonna live. You know if it feels real, if it feels authentic.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til it's close to perfection... But achieving perfection takes a lot of energy.
Stephen Sondheim
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
Martin Heidegger
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I've bought DBSK's CD and every time I listen to their songs I feel very good.
Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
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Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song.
Melissa Etheridge
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Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.
Terry Eagleton
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I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.
Rod Stewart
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You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.
Dolly Parton
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The wordless song had the power of an operatic aria mingled with the sweetness of a lullaby. It was longing, beckoning, hopeful and heartbreaking.
Brandon Mull
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The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!
Thomas Carlyle
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I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.
Stephen Sondheim
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We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.
Tina Weymouth
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With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreciating their artistry by being allowed to perform parallel to it. Rock Band puts you inside the guts of a song.
Carrie Brownstein
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Sometimes, months elapse before we've completed the song completely. There's no set rule. Something inside of you says - 'now you can present it!' If one of us feels it's not quite right, lyrically or melodically, we don't present it.
Richard Sherman
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There are songs and artists now who are trying to do the same thing: be honest to their experiences.
Erik Parker
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For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to--a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.
Helen Keller
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A great solo does not make a great piece. Rather, a great solo in a great song - that's what makes a 10 out of 10. It's the combination of emotional feel and inventive ideas.
Steve Lukather Toto
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All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
Thomas Carlyle
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I don't think comic timing is the same as music timing, but I definitely find that I've learned from just writing in general that songs can be narrative without having a story.
Steve Martin
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I put myself into character for my songs.
Michelle Branch