Song Quotes
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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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The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.
Lucinda Williams
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We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation. 1
Art Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel
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'Allegiance' is pretty much a book musical. You know, people talk and then they burst out into song.
Lea Salonga
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He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar,The only thing that keeps me wishing on a wishing star.He's the song in the car I keep singing, don't know why I do.
Taylor Swift
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In my opinion, that's one of the hardest things to do in songwriting: crafting a song that speaks to you but, at its core, is a simple concept.
Chris Young
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'Spectrum' is in part a disco song. But we play it hard, and it's a real euphoric, wailing tune. It's kind of like a total house anthem, in a way, but it seems to be going down really well. We've got all the grunge kids going mad for disco house raves.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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I knew doing a rap-country song like 'Whiskey Do My Talkin'' was a good move, ... It totally opened the urban side of honky tonk up to us, not to mention there being plenty of good old fashioned amped up country on this one.
Leon Eric Brooks III
Brooks & Dunn
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The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.
Christopher Cross
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When I get bored, I'll zone out, and I'll just sit in front of my computer and start writing any random song that comes to mind.
JC Chasez
NSYNC
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I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves. And I really hope that people kinda go: "This happened once and I kind of like this song because I relate to it..." So if at least one of my songs over this tour's that song, then that's really cool.
Gabrielle Aplin
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I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings
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A song like 'Tears Dry on Their Own' is really sad, but it's hopeful, too - that was my theme song for the first boy who broke my heart.
Jonathan Van Ness
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Just trying to buy me some time, then I remembered this magic trick - vocalizes the Inspector Gadget theme song, Go-Go-Gadget-Dick!
Eminem
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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.
Cynthia Leigh Wilson
The B-52s
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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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I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.'
Adam Levine
Maroon 5
