Song Quotes - Page 22

• I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.

  Joanna Newsom

  Voice, I Can

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

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• I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.

  Joanna Newsom

  Play, Keys, Celtic

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

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• I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

  Joanna Newsom

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

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• I have writing songs on my own for about six years.

  Joanna Newsom

  Writing, Years, Six

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

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• I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.

  Joanna Newsom

  Writing, Thinking, Different

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

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• Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.

  Juice Newton

  Simple, Personality, Sound

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• Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.

  Krist Novoselic

  Player, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Trying, Stories, Able

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• It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Nice, Play, People

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• My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing that's as much as a listener can take.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Land, Knowing, Three

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• I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

  Randy Newman

  Complaining, Records, Blame

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• I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.

  Randy Newman

  If I Could, Written, Ifs

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• I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

  Frank Ocean

  Stupid, People, Singing

  "Frank Ocean: the most talked-about man in music" by Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2012.

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• The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.

  Frank Ocean

  Jobs, Writing, Artist

  "Frank Ocean: On Channel Orange, Meeting Odd Future, and His Tumblr Letter". Interview with Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

  Hunter Parrish

  Chorus, Verses, Written

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A kid now can practically record a song or edit a short film on his way to school. I think that will produce, perhaps, more less-interesting things - or you'll have to search more to find the interesting things. But I also think it's exciting.

  Michael Pitt

  School, Kids, Thinking

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• Each song, you're telling a story and acting.

  Patti Page

  Acting, Stories

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

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• One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.

  Chance the Rapper

  Years, People, Criminals

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• Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected folk songs, retained the melodic line, kept what words were usable and rewrote the rest. He didn't claim ownership.

  Jimmy Reid

  House, Genius, Treasure

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• I really didn't think about song writing.

  Adam Rich

  Writing, Thinking

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• We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

  Adam Rich

  Writing, Trying, Band

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• The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  Play, Issues, People

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• I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible.

  Graham Russell

  Thinking, Firsts, Terrible

  "Air Supply’s Graham Russell on Lost in Love , the Musical". Interview with Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

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• I think 'All Out of Love' is my favorite song because it's been the most successful. It's been in about 30 movies, it's been a number one record, and it keeps getting played on the radio, it's always somewhere.

  Graham Russell

  Successful, Love Is, Thinking

  "Air Supply’s Graham Russell on Lost in Love , the Musical". Interview with Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

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• I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I'm trying to say and I'll think about that for a couple of days until it's all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it'll just fall out. But the song's kind of all ready there in my head.

  Graham Russell

  Couple, Fall, Character

  "Air Supply’s Graham Russell on Lost in Love , the Musical". Interview with Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

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