Song Quotes - Page 24

• I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

  K. D. Lang

  Writing, Play, Currents

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• Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

  Jo Stafford

  Suffering, Mercy, Performers

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• Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!

  Nancy Sinatra

  Crazy, Men, Thinking

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

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• The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Gratitude, Names, Boots

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

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• Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll be on the charts for the first time since 1972, I said, what time, where?

  Nancy Sinatra

  Firsts, Release, Said

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

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• Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Real, Years, Film

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

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• I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room.

  Regina Spektor

  Jobs, Nice, Moving

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

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• It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.

  Regina Spektor

  Real, Writing, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, music.avclub.com. June 21, 2006.

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• I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Fun, People, Trying

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• I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Mom, Country, Dad

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• So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.

  Ronnie Spector

  Baby, Hearing, Stills

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• I'm scared of karaoke. I think if I did have a go to karaoke song, it would be 'Whatta Man' by Salt-n-Pepa.

  Yvonne Strahovski

  Men, Thinking, Would Be

  "Exclusive: Yvonne Strahovski Talks KILLER ELITE, the Final Season of CHUCK & Working With Streisand and Rogen in MY MOTHER’S CURSE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

  Conway Twitty

  Records, Thousand, Ten

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• Sure, I can sing a country song, but so can a lot of people.

  Conway Twitty

  Country, People, I Can

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• I'm definitely not going to go and sing a song that condones certain things.

  Josh Turner

  Certain

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• First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song "Mama Says".

  Miles Teller

  Teacher, Drama, Thinking

  "Examiner.com exclusive: Interview with 'Footloose's' Miles Teller". Interview with Jason Roestel, www.axs.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Downloading songs is not good.

  Obie Trice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If my life was a song the title would probably be 'Clumsy', 'cause I'm clumsy.

  Pia Toscano

  Causes, Titles, Ifs

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• I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

  Richard Thompson

  Hands, Three, Quarters

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• My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.

  Robin Thicke

  Play, Black, Radio

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• Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he sings with white soul. He's singing and he's writing songs from the bottom of his gut.

  Robin Thicke

  Writing, White, Guy

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• My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.

  Robin Trower

  Arrangements

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• I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

  Ryan Tedder

  Eight, Years, Two

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• Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.

  Ryan Tedder

  Christian, Spiritual, Writing

  "Producer-songwriter Ryan Tedder has the golden touch". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 29, 2008.

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• I think the best songs are being written by the very under-stated, under-appreciated indie artists. The thing that separates them from mainstream success is they either consciously or unknowingly refuse to deliver on a big chorus.

  Ryan Tedder

  Thinking, Artist, Appreciated

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