Song Quotes - Page 29

• Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent.

  Adele

  Sometimes, Wander, Bits

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• I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

  Adele

  Writing, Heart, Broken

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• I love love songs. But I love pop music as well: Girls Aloud, Kylie, the Spice Girls, East 17, Mika.

  Adele

  Girl, East, Spices

  "Mad about the girl" by Sylvia Patterson, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2008.

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• I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.

  Adele

  Writing, Artist, People

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• If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

  Adele

  Writing, Years, Singers

  "The Many Ages of Adele". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2011.

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• Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.

  Brownie McGhee

  Running, Guitar, Singers

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• I don't know if any genuine meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.

  Tom Waits

  Meaningful, Gorillas, Kind

  "Off beat". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2006.

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• I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

  Tom Waits

  Children, Men, Swings

  "Tom Waits gives the devil his due". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2009.

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• I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.

  Chris Cornell

  Coffee, Gone Away, Influence

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• I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.

  Rod Stewart

  Able, Honest, Seems

  "Rod Stewart: 'I thought songwriting had left me'" by Michael Hann, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2013.

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• I have my own opinions, but my songs don't share them.

  Shania Twain

  Opinion, Share, My Own

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

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• I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

  Amy Winehouse

  Writing, Feel Better, Past

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• In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

  Bruno Mars

  Home, Blow, People

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• No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

  Bruno Mars

  Persons, Sells

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• Any young, aspiring musicians out there, if music is what you want to do, if music is what you love and your passion. It doesn't take a fragrance, it's not about the tabloids, it's about you putting in the work, practicing every day, practicing your vocals, practicing your instrument, practicing songwriting. Hopefully one day you write the song the whole world wants to get down to. I promise you, if you go out there and sing and you put your heart and soul into it and you follow your dream, one day you're going to be sitting next to Ellen DeGeneres talking about how you broke records and rocked the Super Bowl.

  Bruno Mars

  Writing, Talking, One Day

  "Bruno Mars Talks Super Bowl Show With Ellen". www.usatoday.com. February 10, 2014.

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• There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pain, Believe, Things In Life

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

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• The way I was singing the songs was jazz

  Van Morrison

  Singing, Way, Jazz

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• The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Heart, Speech, Murmuring

  Rabindranath Tagore, William Radice (2011). “Gitanjali: Song Offerings”, p.6, Penguin Books India

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• A lot of songs are derivative of each other.

  Tori Amos

  Derivatives

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• Speaking of stage freight. I was terrified! It was in NOLA at an all ages show. I was wearing Jeans, a Van Halen t-shirt, and a bandana on my neck. Once I gripped that microphone stand, I did not let go! I plugged my microphone into a guitar FX pedal. Then at the end of the a Black Sabbath song we were covering, I hit the guitar pedal. It was horrific!

  Phil Anselmo

  Letting Go, Guitar, Jeans

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• There is a wonderful place
  where flowers grow in colors
  beyond the words of poets...
  trees sing with the
  songs of butterflies.
  And mythical tigresses look
  at you with fiery golden eyes...
  open your heart
  and feel the colors of magic
  blooming inside you.

  Laurel Burch

  Flower, Eye, Heart

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• I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine.

  John Mayall

  Player, Shining, Picks

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• I think Taylor Swift is a really good artist. I feel like her personality shines through everything she does, her music, her fashion, her style. She won Album of the Year, and she’s a really good writer. I’m a song writer so I respect artists who write their own songs. She won Album of the Year when she was 18 or something like that so, I think she’s dope.

  Mike Posner

  Fashion, Writing, Dope

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• By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time when they are little, but then something happens. It's not that we stop singing. I still sang. I just made sure I was alone when I did it. And I made sure I never did it accidentally. That thing we call 'bursting into song.' I believe this happens to most of us. We are still singing, but secretly and all alone.

  Lynda Barry

  Believe, Kids, People

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• Well, I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them.

  John Legend

  Littles, Wells, Bits

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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