Song Quotes
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There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.
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I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
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When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do it and I've done it before.
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Jim Morrison's very good looking, but I don't like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better.
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As a member of Guess Who, I think 'No Time' was the best thing we ever did. It was a pivotal song in our career.
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I Shall Sing No Song That Is Not A Country Song.I Shall Make No Record That Is Not A Country Record.I Refuse To be Known As Anything But A Country Singer.I Am Proud To be Associated With Country Music.Country Music And Country Music Fans Made Me What I Am Today.And I Shall Not Forget It.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!
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The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
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I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.
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I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.
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'Night Shift' is the only breakup song I've ever written.
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I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.
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I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.
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It's more difficult to write a song about having your heart ripped out of your chest while you're in love. Because it lacks honesty. And the honesty comes through in the music, it really does.
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
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I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.
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When I heard 'Rockabye,' I was just blown away. It had been a long time since I had heard a song that had a message like that in it - about being a single parent and caring for your child.
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I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
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I grew up on Dilla, Timbaland, Pharrell, all these drums that are super pocketed, so all those influences come out on a song like 'Ungrateful Eyes,' with all the crazy drum swing.
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It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
