Song Quotes
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When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.
Kevin Bacon
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I'm an older woman who's not going to have a shiny pop song ever again, so that gives me license to do whatever the hell I want.
Jill Sobule
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Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong.
Frederick William Faber
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When I play a song for someone the first time, if I make 'em laugh, I think, 'Yes, I've succeeded.'
Tove Lo
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I find myself a lot more open to bands if I just hear their song. It gives you an opportunity to engage with the thing itself and not be overwhelmed by everything else that surrounds it.
Edwin Farnham Butler III
Arcade Fire
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Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.
Alexander David Turner
Arctic Monkeys
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I love to read things that have moral messages, and I love to hear stories where it's not just a hook, you have to follow the story, you have to listen to the message of the song, and get it and use it in your everyday life.
Valerie June
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To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences.
Roy Wood
Electric Light Orchestra
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I am always happy to use my song and dance training.
Tamara Tunie
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Even if I wrote a song about math or animals or whatever, there would still be the question, 'Why did you write about that? And what does it say about you?'
Jens Lekman
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Every time I write a song my approach changes.
Shawn Mendes
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Every single day I wrote a song, I was hoping somebody like Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean or whoever would record the song. It's tough to do because there are so many great songwriters in Nashville, and I was lucky enough to get some songs recorded before I got my record deal.
Cole Swindell
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My family was musical on both sides. My father’s family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple’s double — she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.
Gloria Estefan
Miami Sound Machine
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Why should it be my loneliness, Why should it be my song, Why should it be my dream deferred overlong?
Langston Hughes
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One seed becomesAn everlasting song, a singing tree,Caroling softly souls of slavery,What they were, and what they are to me,Caroling softly souls of slavery.
Jean Toomer
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(on 'Someday My Prince Will Come' the Ashley Tisdale pop song) 'Just because your prince hasn't come doesn't mean you're not a princess.'
Zayn Malik
One Direction
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Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.
Patty Griffin
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Portishead's production is just insane beats you would expect to be on a KRS-One album. But then there's this little white girl with an angel voice singing over it. It was a cool juxtaposition. I like 'It's A Fire.' That's a chill song with kind of a military drum thing going on, like a drummer boy.
Anders Holm
