Song Quotes - Page 21

• Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song.

  Tori Amos

  Honesty, Arizona, Corners

  Song: In The Spring Time Of His Voodoo, 1996

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• This is a stupid song and that's the way I like it.

  Frank Zappa

  Honesty, Stupid, Downtime

  Song: A Little Green Rosetta

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• Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.

  Paul McCartney

  Baby, Rock And Roll, Joy

  Song: Pipes Of Peace

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• I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.

  Leonard Cohen

  Rock And Roll, Done, Thee

  Song: Bird On The Wire, 1969

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• Over to the jukebox I staggered for a love song to scatter my body before her.

  Kim Mitchell

  Rock And Roll, Jukebox, Body

  Song: Lager and Ale

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• Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

  Roberta Flack

  Pain, Rock And Roll, Singing

  Song: Killing Me Softly with His Song, Album: Killing Me Softly

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• There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.

  Stevie Wonder

  Rock And Roll, Make You Smile, Seems

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• These girls wouldn't let just anybody spew on their vital parts, they wanted a guy from a group with a big hit song on the charts.

  Frank Zappa

  Girl, Rock And Roll, Guy

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• This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright.

  George Harrison

  Rock And Roll, White, Black

  Song: This Song

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• You're singing a song about making love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Gay, Guitar, Rock And Roll

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

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• You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long. You are the breathless hush of evening that trembles on the brink of a lovely song.

  Frank Sinatra

  Romantic, Lonely, Winter

  Song: All The Things You Are

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• You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.

  Alex Kapranos

  Play, Firsts, First Time

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

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• It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.

  Alex Kapranos

  Fall, Mind

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

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• Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was working for you at one point, something you've loved for years and years, when you get together with everybody, you think, this doesn't match up with what's going on with you personally.

  Alison Krauss

  Thinking, Years, Together

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• Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Radio, Yeah, Showers

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• I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know.

  Teena Marie

  Blessing, Thinking, Looks

  Interview with Chris Rolls, www.tv.com. June 20, 2006.

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• There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him.

  Teena Marie

  Party, Guitar, Years

  Interview with Chris Rolls, www.tv.com. June 20, 2006.

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• It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Artist, Blessing, Different

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• My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Piano, Auditions, Has Beens

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• I think every singer hears songs that make you want to sing them.

  David Nail

  Thinking, Want, Singers

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• As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write songs, I just hope I can stand in their company and not embarrass myself.

  David Nail

  Writing, Honor, Trying

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• I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.

  David Nail

  Country, Long, People

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• I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

  Graham Nash

  Mind, Albums, Solo

  The Acoustic Storm Interview, www.acousticstorm.com.

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• To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.

  Jason Newsted

  Firsts, Looks, Kind

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• I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before.

  Jessye Norman

  Done, Want

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