Song Quotes - Page 13

• When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

  Leighton Meester

  Guy, Singing, Particular

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• The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.

  Deana Carter

  Fearless, Vulnerable, Feels

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• Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

  Luke Bryan

  Air, People, Watches

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• A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.

  Natasha Bedingfield

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

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• Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Powerful, Writing, Music Is

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• Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Writing, Mean, Singing

  "Portrait of the artist: Natasha Bedingfield, singer". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2007.

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• I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to write songs; thankfully, I also got to sing them.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Jobs, Writing, Records

  "Portrait of the artist: Natasha Bedingfield, singer". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2007.

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• I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.

  Samantha Barks

  Fun, People, Karaoke

  "Next Factor Q&A: 'Les Miserables' Star Samantha Barks". Interview with Kase Wickman, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2012.

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• I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid.

  Sara Bareilles

  Kids, Used

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

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• I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.

  Sara Bareilles

  Writing, Diaries, Sometimes

  "Sara Bareilles' New Album!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. June 8, 2010.

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• Nobody ever thinks a song is about them. Well, not when it's mean. When it's a good song everybody thinks it's about them. And when it's mean, nobody thinks it's about them.

  Sara Bareilles

  Mean, Thinking, Wells

  "Sara Bareilles' New Album!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. June 8, 2010.

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• DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more.

  Adrian Belew

  Dust, Demos, Rarity

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• I continue to write songs that are topically related to social, political and economic issues of our time, but I also recognize that onstage, I have a lot of fun and audiences have a lot of fun, so I'm trying to package the messages in music and sounds that are fun to perform and fun to listen to.

  Aloe Blacc

  Fun, Writing, Issues

  "Q+A: Socially conscious crooner Aloe Blacc brings a little heart and soul to the Cosmopolitan". Interview with Andrea Domanick, lasvegassun.com. July 26, 2012.

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• In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.

  Aloe Blacc

  Writing, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

  Dan Auerbach

  Guitar, Play, Together

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• I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you've got a style, you're going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play.

  Dan Auerbach

  Character, Guitar, Play

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• I got tired of playing other people's songs.

  Gregg Allman

  Tired, People, Individuality

  Interview with Paul Harris, www.harrisonline.com. December 13, 1997.

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• I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.

  Herb Alpert

  Artist, Thinking, Car

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• When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.

  Patrick Carney

  Two, Looks, Records

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• If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Two, People, Laughing

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

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• The girl that introduced The Smiths' song 'Asleep' to me was an important musical influence that I met in college. From there it's been an ongoing journey of different bands at different times, introducing bands and songs to me.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Girl, Journey, College

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

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• There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

  Eugene Chadbourne

  Bridges, Building, Peasants

  "The Billboard book of rock arranging". Book by Mark Michaels, May 1, 1990.

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• Sometimes you have trouble because someone 'likes' your music so much. They follow you around for hours singing little bits of the songs, or just freaking out.

  Eugene Chadbourne

  Singing, Littles, Likes

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• Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one.

  Glen Campbell

  People, Able, Way

  Glen Campbell, Tom Carter (1994). “Rhinestone cowboy: an autobiography”

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• The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Play, Trying, Hearing

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