Song Quotes - Page 10

• Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Writing, Play, Would Be

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• Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

  Holly Near

  Thinking, Expression, Language

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• To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

  Holly Near

  Men, Perspective, Female

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• I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.

  Ann Beattie

  Summer, Boys, Thinking

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• My songs grow on people - like warts.

  Glenn Frey

  People, Warts, Grows

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• Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation, - we have fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled our blood with theirs, and generation after generation have pleaded with a headstrong, careless people to despise not Justice, Mercy and Truth, lest the nation be smitten with a curse. Our song, our toil, our cheer and warning have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood. Are not these gifts worth the giving? Is not this worth the striving? Would America have been America without her Negro People?

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Cheer, Blood, America

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• Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which we dance on the brink of the abyss, the siren's melody that destroys our senses and paralyzes our wills.

  Robert M. Lindner

  Swans, Tongue, Tunes

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• Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?

  Anne Bronte

  Long, Should, Despise

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• I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.

  Warren Zevon

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

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• If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.

  Neil Diamond

  Records, Wells, Feels

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• The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

  Neil Diamond

  Moving, Writing, Way

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• Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

  Neil Diamond

  Blue, My Favorite, Refining

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• You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.

  Neil Diamond

  Writing, Lap, Plans

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• I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.

  Mel Torme

  Eight, Here I Am, Nine

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• I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

  Billy Idol

  Growing Up, Rap, Singing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.

  Homer

  Novelty, Audience

  Homer (1991). “The Odyssey”, Penguin Classics

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• Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back.

  Elvis Costello

  Rocks, Different, Done

  "Interview about The Delivery Man". Interview with Brian Wise, www.elviscostello.info. April 10, 2004.

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• I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

  Lionel Blue

  Suffering, Sides, Weakness

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• Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!

  Omar Khayyam

  Death, Lying, Wine

  Omar Khayyam (1868). “Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, rendered into Engl. verse [by E. Fitzgerald. 2nd version].”, p.6

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• Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

  Tony Curtis

  Opera, Singers, Able

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• I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived.... His songs are exquisite cameos of perfection, and each one of them is as beautiful as its neighbor. Irving Berlin remains, I think, America's Schubert.

  George Gershwin

  Beautiful, Believe, Thinking

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• I was in Jacques Brel Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete surprise. I had never written a song in my life. We were on the road with Jacques Brel doing the national tour, and I picked up a guitar one day and I wrote a song.

  Amanda McBroom

  Guitar, Years, Singing

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Woman of Will's Amanda McBroom, Returning to Piazza and a Wicked Thought". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 19, 2005.

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• Taken together, our songs are like a mural of our lives.

  Vernon Reid

  Taken, Together, Mural

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• People who have memorized your songs-how can you not love them?

  Todd Rundgren

  Music, People

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• Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

  Bruce Sterling

  Writing, Cynical, Forever

  "Big Brother and the Next 50 years". Interview with Declan McCullagh, www.cnet.com. June 05, 2003.

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