Song Quotes
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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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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
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I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.
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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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I became inspired while I was listening to music on the radio. I felt the music in my head sounded better, so I turned off the radio and scribbled it down on a piece of paper. I remember that it was in May. People liked that song. They said it was beautiful. I felt overjoyed.
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I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
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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'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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A song sometimes ends up with its own internal logic.
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This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.
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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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Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, Under the shade of a coolibar tree, And he sang as he sat and waited for his billy-boil, You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me.
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It'll sometimes hit me in the middle of a song, like, who do I think I am standing up here...playing.
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It's important to immerse myself in one thing at a time to do it well, but I could never do one thing only. I will always be a poet and a singer, because I'm interested in bending genres and pushing boundaries of what is considered a poem, what is considered a song.
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Hopefully when you listen to a song, you can say, 'That's me,' or 'That's someone I know' - you relate to it in a way that's cathartic.
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I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.
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If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is.
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The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed in the Mojave desert. It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized.
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I'm into song-writing; I'm into melodies that break your heart a little bit. That's the thing that got me into music; that's what I look for in music for the most part.
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I woke last night to the sound of thunder,'How far off,' I sat and wondered.Started hummin' a song from 1962.Ain't it funny how the night moves,When you just don't seem to have as much to lose.Strange how the night moves, with autumn closin' in.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.
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I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.
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You don't realize how beautiful an idea is until you do it with other people. There's this really shimmery, awesome thing when you start finishing a song - where the song just starts writing itself.
