Song Quotes - Page 33

• I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

  Iris DeMent

  Writing, Attention, World

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• I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around.

  Beth Gibbons

  Beautiful, Thinking, Trying

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• I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover.

  Beth Gibbons

  Heart, Soul, Needs

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• Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

  Brenda Holloway

  Knights, Camels, Broke

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• I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I'm not one of those who'd rather be a movie star. I prefer TV because of the rushed way of working-on a movie set, you sit around and wait and wait to do a scene because they're adjusting the lights.

  Dana Hill

  Stars, Light, Waiting

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• I'm remixing an R.E.M. track called 'I've Been High' from their last album, 'Reveal.' It's a beautiful song, but record execs didn't put it out as a single because it didn't sound like the R.E.M. we're used to. So I asked Michael Stipe if I could have the tapes to do a remix, and he agreed.

  Lukas Haas

  Beautiful, Track, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I'm focusing on playing and enjoying the song, then it always goes well. I get lost in the song, and the performance is so much better. If the focus becomes not making a mistake, then it just feels rigid to me.

  Marketa Irglova

  Mistake, Focus, Lost

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• The songs, if I write alone in a room, end up being a little more quiet, a little more subdued. If I play with other musicians or percussive instruments, it might end up being a little more upbeat.

  Marketa Irglova

  Writing, Play, Musician

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• I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.

  Page McConnell

  Growing Up, Play, Piano

  ""Nightline Playlist: Page McConnell" by Howard L. Rosenberg". abcnews.go.com. January 5, 2008.

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• It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear.

  Mick Ralphs

  People, Stuff, Bad Company

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• That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

  Mick Ralphs

  Writing, Twenties, Might

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• If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

  Nick Rhodes

  Writing, People, Looks

  "Nick Rhodes on Duran Duran's staying power". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. September 25, 2011.

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• I think pop culture is the greatest subject matter out there - 'Other People's Lives,' as we wrote about on the last Duran Duran album. Most ideas for great songs come from real situations, something your friend said to you the night before, the girl that just left, or something traumatic in your life.

  Nick Rhodes

  Girl, Real, Night

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• Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.

  Noel Redding

  Writing, Mattresses, Outlets

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• The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.

  Joey Santiago

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• I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

  Benmont Tench

  Moving, Trying, Littles

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• If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

  Benmont Tench

  Attention, Sin, Cardinals

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• You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song.

  Benmont Tench

  Crazy, Emotional, Play

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• If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

  Mickey Melchiondo

  Writing, Dozen, Ifs

  "Dean Ween of Ween". Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. October 31, 2007.

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• I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.

  Mickey Melchiondo

  Thinking, Two, Sick

  "Dean Ween of Ween". Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. October 31, 2007.

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• What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.

  Narada Michael Walden

  Powerful, Gone, Houston

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• To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences.

  Roy Wood

  Way, Eras, Wells

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• I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate number of one hit wonders from the early '80s and lots of hair bands. I find it utterly impossible to love a song until I know every single word, so listening to live music or new bands is pretty much out.

  Lauren Weisberger

  Hair, Ipods, Numbers

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• There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be the application of brush to canvas, chisel to marble, bow to string... It may be the control of voice in song or the control of body in dance. It is the mastery of the interface that comprises the artistry; it is what constitutes the 'art' in fine art.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Voice, Vision

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• Song forbids victorious deeds to die.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Deeds, Dies

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.291

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