Song Quotes - Page 23

• I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people absorb that message themselves. That's my theory.

  Graham Russell

  Simple, People, Simplicity

  "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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• If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is.

  Haley Reinhart

  Names, Best Day Ever, Live Every Day

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• My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.

  Johnny Ramone

  Russia, Albums, Rockets

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• It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.

  Leon Redbone

  Notes

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• I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.

  Lionel Richie

  Pain, World, Cleansing

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

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• I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.

  Michael Rapaport

  New York, Cities, Car

  "Michael Rapaport’s Vision Quest". Interview with Steven Prigge, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 24, 2011.

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• I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop was evolving. I think there's an emotional quality to their music and there's a vulnerability to the music. For me, A Tribe Called Quest was my Beatles.

  Michael Rapaport

  Brother, Emotional, Thinking

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• When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side."

  Michael Rapaport

  Kids, Wild Side, Firsts

  "Michael Rapaport’s Vision Quest". Interview with Steven Prigge, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 24, 2011.

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• When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.

  Trevor Rabin

  Talking, Ideas, Fifty

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

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• Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

  David Sylvian

  Fun, Creating, Challenges

  "David Sylvian: 'Do gentlemen still take Polaroids? I think they take Viagra now!'". Interview with Richard Vine, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2012.

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• It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.

  David Sylvian

  Writing, Natural, Protest

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

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• I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

  Elliott Smith

  Writing, People, Feels

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• Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

  Emeli Sande

  Instant

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• I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.

  Emeli Sande

  Writing, People, Listening

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• I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for songs. There were songs like 'Clown' and 'Mountains' that were my songs that I wanted to keep. But the record labels saw me as a songwriter. It was hard to get people to believe in me as an artist.

  Emeli Sande

  Believe, Artist, People

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• I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I'm proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer.

  Emeli Sande

  Artist, Simple, Proud

  "Emeli Sande: The other Adele goes from med school to music" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. June 05, 2012.

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• A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

  Fiona Shaw

  Play, Piano, Drawing

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

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• Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.

  George Strait

  Morning, Mind, Sticks

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• I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Might, Way, Want

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• My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Voice, Tone

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• There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

  Katey Sagal

  Writing, Kind, Wonderful

  "'Sons of Anarchy's' Katey Sagal talks about her other life, as a singer". Interview with Susan Carpenter, latimesblogs.latimes.com. September 29, 2010.

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• I'm not trouble at all. I'm just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I'm like every song on the radio.

  Hailey Abbott

  Girl, Giving, Guy

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• It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.

  Jared Leto

  Nice, Artist, People

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• I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.

  Jeff Lynne

  Nice, Trying, Shapes

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• When you do a song new live on stage, it's kind of a bit weird until it gets worn in, you know, like oiled up a bit. It's still a little bit stiff until you really thrashed at it for a few weeks.

  Jeff Lynne

  Littles, Kind, Week

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