Song Quotes - Page 14

• I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.

  Joe Cocker

  Rays, Able

  "Interview: Joe Cocker lyric". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move.

  Joe Cocker

  Moving, Want, Way

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

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• That's what my life is, writing songs.

  John Cale

  Writing, Writing Songs, Life Is

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• Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.

  Jon Crosby

  Want, Way, Sometimes

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• I'd stop in the middle of a gun fight and sing a song.

  Ken Curtis

  Fighting, Gun, Middle

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• I auditioned for a solo in church and got it. I was about seven and I sang a song called, 'Jesus, I Heard You Had a Big House' and I remember people standing up at the end and me thinking, 'Oh, I think I'm going to like this.' That's how it all began. Sounds funny to say you got your start in church, but I did.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Jesus, Thinking, People

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• I knew the full 'Judy Garland Carnegie Hall' double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was gay. I was like, 'Are you nuts? You would make me get on the table to sing Judy Garland songs and you're upset?

  Mario Cantone

  Mother, Gay, Nuts

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• I have a real dog-like mentality, in that it's like, 'Where is my next meal coming from? Am I ever gonna eat again? Will I ever write another song again? Will anyone show up for tour?' I think it comes from being really poor as a kid.

  Neko Case

  Dog, Real, Writing

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• There are no rules to writing a song.

  Randy Castillo

  Writing

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• John Lennon was a musical genius. All I have to do is think of some of his songs and even the titles make me feel good... and I'm not the only one. His music has crossed cultures and even generations.

  Ray Comfort

  Thinking, Musical Genius, Feel Good

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• Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

  Robert Cray

  Writing, Thinking, Would Be

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• When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

  Rosanne Cash

  Dad, Stills, Died

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• I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people.

  Shawn Colvin

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Christian, Dad, Real

  "Steven Curtis Chapman: Reckless Faith". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Records, Belief, Reputation

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• I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Artist, People, Watches

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• My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.

  Tom Chapin

  Real, Hero, People

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• I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

  Tom Conti

  Writing, One Day, Havens

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• I started writing songs at age 15.

  Vince Clarke

  Writing, Age, Writing Songs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a lover of songs.

  Vince Clarke

  Lovers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• These are very difficult times for new artists. Back in the day, a hit song could really seep into a person's DNA with radio and MTV. A hit today is not the same as a hit twenty years ago. Now there is so much competition, it is very hard to reach the people. The music scene is so overly saturated. There are no gatekeepers like there used to be.

  Vivian Campbell

  Artist, Dna, Years

  "DEF LEPPARD Guitarist: Music Piracy Is Not A Bad Thing For Bands Like Us". Interview with Dana Feldman, www.blabbermouth.net. June 30, 2011.

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• Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

  Wayne Coyne

  Titles, Sometimes, Song Titles

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• I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, 'But this song is so much better than this song,' and then I kind of ditch that song. It's a long process.

  Fefe Dobson

  Writing, Long, People

  "Febe Dobson Haunts Her Ex In 'Ghost' Video - Watch It Here!" by Mawuse Ziegbe, www.mtv.com. June 25, 2010.

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• When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.

  Fefe Dobson

  Thinking, Changing Your Life, Young

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I always like Madonna; any Madonna song is good for me.

  Jenna Dewan

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

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