Song Quotes - Page 35

• At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.

  Willie Nelson

  Country, Powerful, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I did a lot of songs that I sold, but then they never came out and I never got paid for it. You learn real fast that the music industry, in the beginning, you're not going to get paid for a while, and then you start getting the accolades.

  Ester Dean

  Real, Music Industry, Accolades

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was growing up, Nashville was the place to go if you had songs to sell and thought you had talent and wanted to tour and be on Grand Ole Opry [radio show]. It was the big deal back in those days to play the Grand Ole Opry. And you could travel around the world saying, "Hi, I'm Willie from the Grand Ole Opry".

  Willie Nelson

  Growing Up, Nashville, Play

  Interview with Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2015.

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• My songs are my hookers. I can't worry about how they are going to be treated; they just need to bring home the bacon.

  Ester Dean

  Home, Worry, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.

  Aurora Aksnes

  Thinking, Sound, Studios

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think I've ever gone on stage to be an asshole. I know one thing, from the past, and that's that my intentions always began in a pure way. I really want to just try and play the songs.

  Ryan Adams

  Thinking, Past, Play

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. July 23, 2007.

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• I took guitar lessons and recorded the song in New York. It was kind of a dream. I got to pretend I was a recording artist for a couple days.

  Kristen Wiig

  Dream, New York, Couple

  "Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig Talk THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, Filming in Iceland, Balancing Fantasy and Reality, Comparisons to the Original, and More". Press conference, collider.com. April 21, 2013.

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• A lot of the songs I write are like songs that I've never been able to find on any record, but that I've always wanted to hear. Or maybe in a style I already loved, but I was looking for something in it that I wasn't hearing yet.

  Ryan Adams

  Writing, Style, Records

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• I got on the phone with the president of my label and I said, "Obviously, I write songs in a lot of styles and play a lot of different kinds of music. We're getting toward the end of our business collaboration. If you could envision a record that you wanted to hear from me, what kind of record would it be?" It wasn't like asking him to fill an order, it was really just a conversation. For all the things I'd ever asked him, this was one thing I'd never asked, and I don't know why. So I was curious. And the thing that he was most interested in hearing was a solo record.

  Ryan Adams

  Writing, Order, Play

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• It's really very easy for me to be in The Cardinals, because I bring my voice, my guitar, and my songs to them, and then we all play around to find out what works.

  Ryan Adams

  Guitar, Play, Voice

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• You can imagine several scenes from Star Wars? The way they looked? For me, that's how music is. Sometimes I'll be developing riffs for songs, just while I'm sitting around and not playing.

  Ryan Adams

  Stars, War, Way

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• I can sort of will that stuff to happen to me if I put myself in the right headspace. Then I can actually get to a space where it won't just be one song that comes through, but a series of them.

  Ryan Adams

  Space, Stuff, Happens

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• I like the idea that within the structure of the song, some kind of built-in improvisation keeps them fragile and in their moment, so that I'm not projecting so much, so that my perception of the song doesn't interfere with what its real body is. Sometimes it's like telling a story that I heard in passing, and I don't want it to become completely mine.

  Ryan Adams

  Real, Ideas, Perception

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• A lot of my songs, they're like puzzle pieces, and there's just one way to put them together. You could, if you needed to, get the scissors out and cut up things to make them work. But I don't want to do that.

  Ryan Adams

  Cutting, Together, Want

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes like rock music. But some of the themes in there - maybe it's because I know how the songs were written, but it really does sound like it was written by two or three people, with the idea to appeal to the most general audience.

  Ryan Adams

  Country, Rocks, Ideas

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• I do craft songs, that this is designed. It's almost like the song was written to produce this desired effect. And it probably really works for somebody. It's maybe somebody's favorite tune, and it's really hard to come down on that, even if I feel a little embarrassed for it. Because some songs are written like a commercial, and that can be a little strange.

  Ryan Adams

  Crafts, Littles, Tunes

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

  Chris Carmack

  Writing, Kids, Done

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.

  Skylar Grey

  Writing, People, Goal

  "Skylar Grey on Her New Album, Eminem's Mystique and Why She Almost Quit Music (Q&A)". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 9, 2013.

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• You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eternal

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• The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.

  William Wordsworth

  Summer, Art, Moving

  'Hart-leap Well' (1800) pt. 2, l.1

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• You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Bird, Verbs, Nouns

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.794, Harvard University Press

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• Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Echoes, Waiting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.195, The Floating Press

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• O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Brave, Soul, Looks

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.206

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• I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Children, Passion, Summertime

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “Hyperion, a romance. Kavanagh, a tale”, p.79

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• Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Singing, Deep Emotions, Tone

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.308

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