Song Quotes - Page 32

• It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.

  Victoria Legrand

  Gun, Trying, Scripts

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• A song is a song and a hit record can change a life.

  Rico Love

  Records, Rico

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• It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

  Rico Love

  Writing, Firsts, Heard

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• I don't take off as many days as most other producers and songwriters, so I'm working every single day, and I do songs every day. So it's just about finding time, scheduling, getting in and cutting the records. I make it happen and that's the name of the game. It's no excuses - you gotta figure it out.

  Rico Love

  Cutting, Excuse You, Games

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• I like clever songs. I like songs that make people think and I try to have substance in all my records, even with 'Sweet Dreams' how it was a club record and it was up tempo, but it was melodic and it was, like, lyrical.

  Rico Love

  Dream, Sweet, Clever

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• I watch artists say they wrote all these songs and don't mention anybody else who was involved, and that's fine. I don't expect an artist to give me credit. I know that they're gonna take the credit for everything. But, it's my job to give myself that exposure and not make excuses, not grow bitter.

  Rico Love

  Jobs, Artist, Giving

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• It's just a lot of fun to be able to see your ideas come into fruition. And to see people translate the things that come out of my mind vocally. And to be able to produce vocals and give people my point of view musically. And to be able to sit in the crowd and see people sing the song that I wrote, it's an amazing feeling.

  Rico Love

  Fun, Ideas, Views

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• I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.

  Randy Owen

  Writing, Responsibility, Talking

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• The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.

  Randy Owen

  Writing, Juice, Stills

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• The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.

  Randy Owen

  Jobs, Order, People

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• When a song comes to you, you can't run around it.

  Connie Smith

  Running

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• Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Years, Bob, Tvs

  "Color of Money Book Club". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. January 29, 2009.

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• The songs come along at their own pace when they are ready.

  Christine Lavin

  Pace, Ready

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• It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.

  Christine Lavin

  Believe, Struggle, Writing

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• Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.

  Christine Lavin

  Football, Writing, Stopping

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• Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Inspiration, Hard Work, Writing

  "Bjorn Ulvaeus: ABBA star behind Mamma Mia". Interview with Gisella Deputato, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2009.

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• We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.

  Scott Putesky

  Years, Way

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• We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

  Scott Putesky

  Albums, Four, Next

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• What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

  Scott Putesky

  Band, Particular, Disturbing

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• My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code.

  Black Francis

  People, Might, Strange

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2006.

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• I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that.

  Black Francis

  Children, Writing, Kids

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• I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

  Black Francis

  Boston, Age, Remember

  "Black Francis can't tell Rock Chickens from EGGS" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. July 30, 2009.

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• The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.

  Black Francis

  Inspire, Firsts, Progression

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• I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.

  Gerry Beckley

  Writing, Heart, Thinking

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• Recently, I've been working on anew album of material, which should be out in the new Millennium. I'm not sure which song will be put out as a single, but I'm still hoping to get another record in the charts.

  Desmond Dekker

  Albums, Records, Should

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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