Song Quotes - Page 40

• I don't know any songs. People have asked me to play a song, and I say, "I don't know anything."

  Charlie Day

  Play, People, Knows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love Queen. Not all of it. Some of it, I can't get into. But "Don't Stop Me Now" is a pretty hilarious song. It's a good pick-me-up in the car.

  Charlie Day

  Queens, Car, Pick Me Up

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them.

  Dave Grohl

  Writing, Intention, Demos

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

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• To me the most important thing is getting into a studio and making an album that is 12 or 14 amazing songs, getting up onstage, and making people happy by livening the rock.

  Dave Grohl

  Rocks, People, Important

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

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• For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records.

  Dave Grohl

  Beautiful, Rocks, Two

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

  Dave Grohl

  Journey, Order, Records

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.

  Dave Grohl

  Rocks, Loud, Feels

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.

  Dave Grohl

  Guitar, Practice, Acoustics

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• Everybody has a line. It doesn't matter how you're dressed onstage or what you say in your songs, that doesn't give anybody the right to invade your personal space.

  Lzzy Hale

  Space, Giving, Lines

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I do write. I actually do want to start my music as well. My sister and I are starting a band. I've been playing a guitar for nine years, and she plays piano, and we sing together. We're going to start up something soon. I mostly am writing songs right now actually, but I would love to write a script someday.

  Kaitlyn Dever

  Writing, Guitar, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• My goal from the very beginning was just to write good songs that don't require any production to be felt or understood. I wanted to be able to sit in a room with a guitar and play the song from beginning to end and have it be as impactful as if you heard the studio version with all the bells and whistles.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Writing, Guitar, Play

  "Pop Sovereign: A Conversation With Madonna". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• If I'm over a song two weeks after I made it, I'm not going to put it out. It has to last months.

  Danny Brown

  Two, Lasts, Months

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I like my raps but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better. But every time I hear my flow on that song I wow myself.

  Tyler, The Creator

  Rap, Ems, Wow

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I was first writing, I used to sit at the piano and play songs - I'd write one or two a night. It was my hobby. At some point, it then became a process that was mainly done within the context of the studio, and writing became part of the recording process.

  Kate Bush

  Writing, Night, Play

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2011.

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• In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and you'd learn to sing a lot of songs.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Summer, Religious, Kids

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• I am deeply saddened to hear the news of Dan's passing. He was a dear friend for many years. Dan & his music will live on in the great songs he shared with us all. My sincere condolences go out to Catherine and the entire Peek family. May he rest in peace.

  Gerry Beckley

  Rest In Peace, Condolences, Years

  "Dan Peek, Co-Founder of '70s Band America, Dies". www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 26, 2011.

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• I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

  Jules Shear

  Writing, Giving, Trying

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• I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.

  Jules Shear

  Thinking, Rights, Giving

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• I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

  Jules Shear

  Writing, People, House

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• Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp - everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.

  E. B. White

  Summer, Eggs, House

  E. B. White (2015). “Charlotte’s Web and other classic animal stories: Charlotte’s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, Stuart Little”, p.28, HarperCollins UK

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• I am very impressed by The Carrivick Sisters, one of the best young duos I’ve heard. The girls sing and play as one and their work is characterised by great musicality. They are not only very talented instrumentalists and singers but they write really good songs as well.

  Ralph McTell

  Girl, Writing, Play

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• What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Life, Firsts, Notes

  "Méditations Poétiques". Book by Alphonse de Lamartine, 1820.

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• I think my song about 'I want to have your babies' really does freak a lot of guys out, not just my boyfriend!

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Baby, Thinking, Guy

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• I am the Alexander Graham Bell of the phone company, the Christopher Columbus of America because after 'The Twist' everything changed, .. Watch the films from 1958 up to 1959, and watch American Bandstand during that time. After the song came out, everything was different.

  Chubby Checker

  Phones, America, Twists

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• When I’m Chad from Nickelback, then I have to wear one hat and I have to wear various others when I’m Chad Kroeger who is co-owner of 604 Records or someone who’s working on an independent project. At that point I want to know where the record is getting licensed, as well as absolutely every aspect of how we’re going to deliver a song to the public and how we’ll all get paid for doing so.

  Chad Kroeger

  Independent, Records, Want

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