Song Quotes - Page 8

• Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a ballad. It's important to understand what the song is saying, and learn how to tell the story. It takes time. I can't rush it. I really can't rush it.

  Shirley Horn

  Important, Musician, Needs

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• Every song brings back memories, like I remember where I wrote all these songs. 'Universal Heartbeat' was my apartment in New York City. 'My Sister' was at my apartment in Boston. I remember places and I remember what I was thinking when I wrote it.

  Juliana Hatfield

  New York, Memories, Thinking

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• I don't believe songs that try to say everything in a simple slogan.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Believe, Simple, Trying

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• When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept. I didn't think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Writing, Thinking, Self

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• My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Knowing, Not Knowing

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• I finished 'Beautiful Creature,' and I felt somewhat unfulfilled. I felt like this other side of me needed to be released. Some of the songs I left off the album weren't intense enough to be what I wanted. They weren't hard enough.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Beautiful, Albums, Sides

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• When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually it goes in many directions within each song. They get really convoluted sometimes.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Writing, Titles, Goes On

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• The Song is a gritty, realistic, and powerful film. The acting and production quality are excellent, and the story is captivating. Although not for children, the story is a good reminder to adults of what really matters!

  Alex Kendrick

  Children, Powerful, Quality

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• For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic.

  Steve Kazee

  Passion, Writing, Careers

  "THE LEADING MEN: Steve Kazee, the Traveling Heart of Broadway's Once". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. March 17, 2012.

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• When singing, you need performing skills and a bit of imagination. You have to treasure the emotions, and to not deviate from the colour of the song while pouring your heart into it.

  Kim Tae-yeon

  Heart, Skills, Imagination

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• I believe truly that Satan cannot endure it and so slips out of the room - more or less - when there is a true song.

  Amy Carmichael

  Believe, Rooms, Satan

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• The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.

  Annie Dillard

  Art, Blue, Guitar

  Annie Dillard (1983). “Living by Fiction”, New York : Harper & Row

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• It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, Gun, Law

  James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett Hale (1902). “Early prose writings of James Russell Lowell”

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• If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for that event.

  Hal Borland

  Voice, Rivers, Firsts

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• Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart.

  Robert Browning

  Heart, Endure, Composer

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.117, Wordsworth Editions

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• My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.

  Tracy Chapman

  Guitar, Years, Firsts

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• The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.

  Tracy Chapman

  Together, Might, Influence

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• We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Spring, Flower, Winter

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• I would never put my songs in a commercial.

  Tom Petty

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• When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.

  Euripides

  Wrath, Two, Long

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1974). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

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• But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in.

  Dee Snider

  Believe, Fighting, Stand Up For Yourself

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

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• Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Congratulations, Self

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

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• Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.

  Billy Graham

  Pain, Stories, Problem

  Billy Graham (2012). “Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions”, p.406, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

  Dolly Parton

  Children, Support, My Children

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• I've copyrighted 3,000 songs.

  Dolly Parton

  "Dolly Parton talks new album, tour". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. July 9, 2002.

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