Song Quotes - Page 16

• The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.

  Ronnie Dunn

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• So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.

  Thomas Dolby

  Guitar, Records, Lines

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• Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

  Daniel Ek

  News, Matter, Today

  "Spotify's Daniel Ek: 'We want artists to be able to afford to create the music they want to create'". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2012.

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• Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.

  Joe Elliott

  Horse, Crazy, Bags

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• I went to see 'Listen to My Heart: The Songs of David Friedman.' I have been a fan of his music for years, and I was invited to opening night because I know one of the producers.

  John Edward

  Heart, Night, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Beach, Husband, Ocean

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• I love characters songs and I love to fit into a story. I love singing through a character's journey.

  Katie Finneran

  Character, Journey, Singing

  "Exclusive InDepth InterView: Katie Finneran Talks I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER, COMPANY, Sondheim, PROMISES & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. December 1, 2011.

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• My two favorite musicals growing up in were 'Annie' and 'Sweeney Todd,' and my best friend and I would sing all the songs when I was a kid.

  Katie Finneran

  Growing Up, Kids, Two

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• When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.

  Sky Ferreira

  Writing, Singing

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

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• I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

  Steve Forbert

  Writing, Play, Always Trying

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• You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

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• There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly.

  Tim Finn

  Years, Doe, Common

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

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• Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

  Tim Finn

  People, Songwriters

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

  Tim Finn

  Writing, Pops, Pop Song

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

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• If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.

  Naima Adedapo

  Titles, Would Be, Ifs

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• If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.

  Namie Amuro

  Ifs, I Can

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• In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All There Is?' I want to believe there's something else going on, but what that something else is I don't pretend to know.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Believe, Want, Belief

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• I guess I've never been introduced properly to Pink Floyd. I know they're great, don't get me wrong. Excellent, excellent musicians; great band; awesome harmony; great song writers; I just don't know anything besides, I guess, the popular songs on the radio.

  Phil Anselmo

  Musician, Band, Radio

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

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• Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy.

  Rick Allen

  Heart, Thinking, Breathing

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• Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.

  Ryan Adams

  Beautiful, Moving, Writing

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

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• To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It's like a conversation.

  Ryan Adams

  People, Tools, Done

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

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• When I start working on a batch of tunes - like roughly 10 solid tunes - I always know there'll be another 10 to follow, because for every song I invest a lot of time in, there's another song waiting behind it.

  Ryan Adams

  Waiting, Tunes, Behinds

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

  Sade Adu

  Singing, I Can

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• I love writing songs.

  Sade Adu

  Writing, Writing Songs

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• Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

  Sade Adu

  People, Purpose, Mines

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