Song Quotes - Page 25

• If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.

  Ryan Tedder

  Unique, Talking, Should Have

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• Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.

  Ryan Tedder

  Simple, Thinking, Brain

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• Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I'm actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don't realize this, but I am an excellent writer for artists.

  Tila Tequila

  Fun, Writing, Artist

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• There aren't that many songs that pay homage to the DJ. They are the ones getting artists' music out there. They are the ones getting the club popping. But no one's giving them any love.

  Tila Tequila

  Artist, Giving, Clubs

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• People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.

  Tinie Tempah

  Thinking, People, Different

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• I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.

  Toru Takemitsu

  Thinking, Type, Composer

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• It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

  Keith Urban

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.

  Keith Urban

  Names, Titles, Albums

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• A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I think when you find your once-in-a-lifetime love, that's what everybody's looking for.

  Keith Urban

  Good Life, Life Changing, Thinking

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• I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.

  Kate Voegele

  Writing, Busy, Bunch

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• I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of my records and establishing myself as a songwriter is super-important to me. Some people have that gift, where they can take on anything and make people believe it. I like to do a song from personal experience.

  Kate Voegele

  Believe, Writing, People

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• I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.

  Kate Voegele

  Play, Tree, Musician

  "Exclusive: Kate Voegele Calls Kevin Federline A 'Down-To-Earth Guy'". MTV Buzzworthy Interview, www.mtv.com. April 30, 2008.

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• I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.

  Kate Voegele

  Art, Kings, Writing

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• I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.

  Kate Voegele

  Play, Two, Giving

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• My biggest advice for girls - and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger - is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.

  Kate Voegele

  Girl, Advice, Skins

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. May 05, 2011.

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• My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.

  Kate Voegele

  Writing, Knowing, Goal

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• My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock...whatever you want to call it is OK with me.

  Kate Voegele

  Roots, Rocks, People

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• My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.

  Kate Voegele

  Writing, Albums, Records

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• I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I've got to do something with you.

  Alan Vega

  Couple, Dark, Men

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• I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.

  Frankie Valli

  Sock, Contemporary

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• I don't want to be 35 years old and still popping out songs in miniskirts and la-la-la.

  Holly Valance

  Years, Want, Stills

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• I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as much music as possible. The last girlfriend I had, when we broke up, I remember being in a room for days on days on days with my music cranked up, playing songs like Kanye's '808's & Heartbreak.' That playlist just was long!

  Tristan Wilds

  Girlfriend, Writing, Long

  "Meet 90201's Tristan Wilds!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. October 26, 2011.

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• Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Musician, Way, Perceive

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• I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Stories, Behinds, Engaging

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• All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

  Chely Wright

  Writing, Play, People

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