Song Quotes
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I try to project not only a song but a personality.
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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.
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As we went into production, there was no song for Olivia and no idea where we would put it. It was not even on the production schedule.
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If I love a song, I make it mine.
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The greatest single portfolio of songs ever written by any one person in the history of country music.
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I'm always writing. It might be a bad song, but I'm always writing.
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Every time I'm home from tour I try to write some new songs, but it can get really hard trying to keep up with normal life, I always get so behind.
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The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song - not one. Not two.
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A great pop song should be felt when you hear it.
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I grew up playing a lot of R&B music, and I wanted to do a very R&B type song. And I like the 'nah-nah-nahs'. I always wanted a song with those in.
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I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.
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I did the co-writing thing all through the '90s and I got one hit out of it - a Keith Urban song called 'But For The Grace Of God' - but then I got burnt out.
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You were put here to protect us. But who protects us from you?
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Most of the time when people work with an artist, they don't give them what they need for the future, they give them what their last album sounded like. So it's like, 'Oh, One Republic needs a song, why don't we send them 10 that sound like 'Apologize?'
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It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.
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You try to stay in the moment and act like you're singing the song for the first time. You try to have a good time yourself. That's the most important thing. If you're having a good time, people will join you.
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If we were to use the success of 'Need You Now' as the barometer for every other song, then we'll probably be highly disappointed. That song will probably undoubtedly be the biggest song of our career. We can hopefully have success for 20 years, but we may not ever have the success of that one particular song again.
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I would love to do a Bond song, and I could have done a Bond song: I was offered a Bond theme, but I turned it down because I didn't like the song. But as it turned out, I was right anyway because the song was the only Bond theme that never became a hit, so I'm glad I wasn't associated with that!
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One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.
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The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother.
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Anything is food for starting a song. A song can start with a lyric idea or a melody or just a sound that inspires.
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I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.
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A singer knows how he wants the song to go, and a writer visualizes how he wants the song to go.
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It's not that I have resisted songwriting, it's just not something I felt I have had to do. I've just not woken up and thought, I must do this. But I have often heard music that I have instantly felt 'I have to sing that song'.
