Song Quotes
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My musical background in Tyler, Texas was quite outstanding. Uh, I grew up with, uh, with high school teachers who were in bands, they could play music. And we had a nine piece band there in Tyler, and I joined them when I was about, oh, 15 years old and traveled all over Texas in that band, playing for the elite oil people. Hah. And um, I was making about 50 bucks a night, and uh, it taught me, they taught me how to find my timing and to learn the songs that I wanted.
Carl Gardner
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There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.
David Cook
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I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music. You might hear a song with a catchy beat, but what's it about? It's not empowering or helping anyone.
Jennifer Hudson
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More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it would just be something different. Lyrically, I am usually fairly confused until something is finished, and then it makes perfect sense to me.
James Vincent McMorrow
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When I get into the studio, it's not about trying to get a good song, it's about whatever comes naturally.
Jessica Mauboy
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If I like a song, I'll just keep playing it, and it never gets old.
Bradley Cooper
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There's a lot of rage you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey
Bananarama
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I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something.
Billy Eckstine
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I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out.
Robert James Ritchi
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I don't want to have a song like 'My Humps' and it be sagging down, so I pay attention to that area. A lot.
Fergie
The Black Eyed Peas
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I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.
Liz Phair
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I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My voice is the utterly normal voice, but sheer repetition has made them think it's OK. Mick Jagger once was asked, 'What makes a hit song? He said, 'Repetition.'
Ira Glass
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I'm recording freely, and if I make a song, I release it immediately, so I'm more likely to believe in one song at a time as opposed to albums.
Chuck D
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My mother had a great vinyl collection, and she was constantly playing female singer-songwriters. I first learned about classic song structures by listening to them, and Laura Nyro particularly stood out. Her voice was outside what you'd usually hear on the radio; that really appealed to me.
Jenny Lewis
