Song Quotes
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If you've got a good song, it's easy to play. But you can't make a bad song sound good no matter who you have to play on it.
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I sang the 'Kim Possible' song for their cartoon series 'Kim Possible'.
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The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
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If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you'll find my kindred spirit. There you'll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in.
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The people that only listen to one song from a record and flip around that much, if that's the only way they listen to music, they're probably the kind of people that like music as something to drive to, you know?
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I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
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I like making all kinds of music, it really depends on the moment. Sometimes I feel like making a weird trap song, and sometimes I can't even attach a track to a genre.
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I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.
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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 usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.
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I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.
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'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
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I think artists are aware that talking gives a songwriter so much material. If they just tell us what's happening, it's so much easier for us to write a song that's specific to them.
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It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.
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Different people have different ways of doing things. For me, becoming a songwriter first and falling in love with the Nashville songwriting community and the process of songs and getting better and putting more in what I wanted to say, was absolutely vital in me even wanting to be an artist.
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If the chords change a lot over the course of a song, it's better to stay within the same melodic structure.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.
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'Bellyache' is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren't real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don't know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.
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It was right after I dropped the song 'Don't,' and it started to go viral a little bit. That's when I was like, 'Alright, I might have something here.' Actually, I wasn't even going to quit my job, but Timbaland called me - we have a mutual friend - and he was like, 'Yo man, you need to work in Miami.'
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No nation has a single history, no people a single song.
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In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped.
