Song Quotes - Page 19

• Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don't see them on the covers of magazines. I'd heard 'Silver Machine' but Russell Senior, who was in Pulp, got me into them. They had a song called 'Master Of The Universe' and we nicked the title in 1985 for one of our songs.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Senior, People, Band

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I'd never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Kids, Player, Tape

  "The John Lennon Letters, edited by Hunter Davies - review" by Jarvis Cocker, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2012.

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• I'm doing a fun EP. It's called 'Songs in the Key of Phife: Eight Is Enough.' It's radio-friendly, but then a lot of it just has that raw hip-hop. Some of it will be vintage Tribe, but for the most part I'm just letting my voice be heard.

  Phife Dawg

  Fun, Keys, Eight

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• My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

  Colin Farrell

  Community, Dublin, Traditional Music

  "Colin Farrell interview" by Horatia Harrod, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 29, 2010.

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• Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.

  Dan Farmer

  Honesty, Mean, Internet

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• My favorite song to play is 'Smokin'' by Boston. I actually had a chance to play that with the band Boston live.

  Doug Flutie

  Boston, Play, Band

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• People know me for up-tempo songs because of my hits.

  Eddie Floyd

  People, Tempo, Know Me

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• We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

  Fred Frith

  Play, Different, Use

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• I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.

  John Fogerty

  Equipment, Old Song, Comfortable

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• Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music.

  Michael Franti

  War, Thinking, Israel

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• My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Often Is

  FaceBook post by Mick Fleetwood from May 06, 2015

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• I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.

  Paloma Faith

  Men, Get Over, Plenty

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• I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.

  Paloma Faith

  Writing, Political, Enough

  "Paloma Faith: 'I have an inability to lie" by Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

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• Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.

  Kenny G

  Mean, Play, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church.

  Jamey Johnson

  Spiritual, Hymns, Singing

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• Even a song on the radio that completely lacks substance is there for a reason. Sometimes, people need a break from cold reality; the song that you really don't have to put that much thought power into can be just as entertaining as something that might take you on a three- or four-minute cruise through the depth of reality.

  Jamey Johnson

  Reality, People, Four

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• With 'Believe' bringing really big success for me outside of the U.K. for the first time, it meant I have been touring around the world and that led to a gap from the studio. I really feel like the gap has done me the world of good. Throughout that time I was able to collect songs that I really loved.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Believe, Done, World

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

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• Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.

  Kelly Jones

  Stuff, Easier, Frustrating

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• The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.

  Kelly Jones

  Guitar, Paris, Snow

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• The story behind every song is individual to itself.

  Kelly Jones

  Stories, Individual, Behinds

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• I heard the Bloc Party record Japan before it came out in the UK as they are on the V2 record label. I think it has a great vibe and has great songs. I also think the Kings of Leon are right up my street.

  Kelly Jones

  Kings, Party, Thinking

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• I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety.

  Norah Jones

  Heart, Feelings, Subtlety

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• Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.

  Norah Jones

  Needs, Songwriting

  "Singer / Song-writer Norah Jones TalkAsia Interview Transcript". Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. February 14, 2004.

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• Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about.

  Norah Jones

  Mean, Thinking, Different

  "Newcomer Norah Jones breaks through with jazzy debut". "The Music Room", www.cnn.com. April 24, 2002.

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• All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.

  Shooter Jennings

  Writing, Get Better, Records

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