Song Quotes
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I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.
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It's lifestyle music. It's not like some secretary who likes some pop song, but can't name who the band is; whereas a heavy metal fan is into every aspect of it. We'll see if rap holds up to that. Run-DMC seemed to be the Led Zeppelin of rap.
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My cousin used to make fun of me for liking stuff like C+C Music Factory. I didn't have any tapes; I just liked their song on the radio. We liked that because that was what we had access to.
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If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can hear it all.
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Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
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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.'
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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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.
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It doesn't take a year to sing a song. Takes a year for people to figure out how to market it.
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If a girl sings a sexy song, I actually become even more attracted to them.
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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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I've always been a fan of Five For Fighting's song 'Superman.' It's like an anthem, and I love it.
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I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.
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You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a set of ideas, but miraculously, a song comes out of it.
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I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!
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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.
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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.
