Song Quotes - Page 15

• Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.

  Jenna Dewan

  School, Old School, Picks

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

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• Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Artist, Years, Hated

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• I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Breakup, Drama, Dysfunction

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• Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every "Idol" winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Stars, Mean, Artist

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Chicago Star Kara DioGuardi". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 16, 2011.

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• There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Inspiration, Careers, Crafts

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• Some people take pictures, I write songs.

  Lee DeWyze

  Writing, People

  "Lee DeWyze: Some people take pictures, I write songs". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. March 23, 2011.

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• Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.

  Anita Diament

  Writing, Light, Play

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• My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be.

  Charlie Daniels

  Christian, Albums, Want

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• When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

  Chris Daughtry

  Writing, Guitar, Able

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• I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

  Dave Davies

  Writing, People, Trying

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• Every song is different.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Different

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• Once at the White House I was asked to conduct the Drum and Bugle Corp. The man just handed me the baton and I finished the song. It was great. I got to keep the baton.

  Dom DeLuise

  Men, White, House

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• Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

  Don Dokken

  Writing, Rocks, Mind

  Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. May 13, 2008.

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• When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

  Evan Dando

  Writing, Firsts

  "I can't completely let go of drugs - and I don't want to" by Mat Snow, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2006.

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• The best songs I write in 20 minutes.

  Evan Dando

  Writing, Minutes

  "I can't completely let go of drugs - and I don't want to" by Mat Snow, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2006.

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• So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.

  Glenn Danzig

  Writing, Pieces, Mood

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• I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar.

  Grey DeLisle

  Acting, Stories, Gigs

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• No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Believe, Fall, People

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• There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Writing, Doe, Kind

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• If my life were a song it would be called 'Don't Stop Believing'. Yeah.

  James Durbin

  Believe, Would Be, Yeah

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• A song is the most intangible thing in the world.

  Jimmie Davis

  World, Intangible

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• I'm of Neil Young's generation. Neil Young's songs have spoken to what it's like to be at least a white male of his generation over the years. Endlessly, he's sung about the stuff that I really care about. He's put into words the feelings that hit you at different transitional moments in life.

  Jonathan Demme

  Years, White, Feelings

  "Jonathan Demme Talks NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 1, 2012.

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• I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song.

  Katherine Dunham

  Thinking, Ed Sullivan

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• One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

  Mac Davis

  Real, Goal, Whistling

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

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• When I get all focused on songwriting, I get into all the marketing and promotion that we do to make it happen. Then the right song comes along and blows it all out of the water. The right song will do it for you every time.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Blow, Water, Marketing

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