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" Quotes and Sayings About a song

The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.

Shape Strain Song Triumph
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There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

Always Down Song Bad
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You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

Love Someone Look Clothes
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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Heart Sing Song Poet
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My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Life Great Dance Song
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Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you're working with; otherwise, you're not gonna come out with something that's really you.

Trust Working Writing Come
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You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don't have to be in love with anyone.

Love Someone Song Write
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If a song was ever good, it's still good.
Ever Good Song Still
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For myself music definitely informs my emotions. And I can literally play a song that will get me where I need to be emotionally. I don’t have to think about the tragic things that happened in my life or the greatest things that happened in my life.

Music Emotions Tragic Greatest
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I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like giving away your heart.

Able Wouldn't Write Song
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Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, but write it in such a way that American's youth can identify and slurp along with the Boss. Hail the Boss! Hail 7-11!

Youth Slurp Boss American's
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I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.

War Song Stopped Music
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No pastor has the church’s blessing to impose Yoruba songs as part of the church service in other parts of the country.

Impose Service Country Parts
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When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.

Certain Emotion Intent Myself
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I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

Rhythm Songwriter Speech Always
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I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

Back Down Excited Get
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I just write a song, and it just comes out however it wants to. And some of them are catchy songs like 'Here Comes The Sun,' and some of them aren't, you know.

Catchy Here However Just
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I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus.

Actress Add Brand Call
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I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

Charts Compete I Can Just
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I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

Almost Always Bit Felt
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I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

Big Hoax Life My Life
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Feminism... I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.'

Captures Explanation Feminism Free
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I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.

Again Another Another Time Back
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When I'm picking songs for an album I always want a song that I can relate to and that I have experienced. There's nothing worse than watching an artist try and sell a song that isn't believable coming from them.

When Picking Songs For
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I've got a song on One Direction's album called 'Tell Me A Lie'. It's a really cute song - I love it. I loved that they liked it.

Got Song One Direction
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I can't make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I'm gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo - you can never get away from it.

Away Demographic Get Gonna
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

Belong Longer Mine Music
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I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

Felt Forced Me Mother
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Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all

Am Artist Being Both
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Those who wish to sing will always find a song.

Wish Song Sing Always
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I've been trying to write you a song for years but I'm not sure what to say.

Song Write Years
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But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.

About Almost Any Back
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

Acting Angry Concert Drum
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

Album Every Get I Can
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

Should Take Fifteen Minutes
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There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book

Makes Improvisation Human Existence
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I've learned this, that haters wanna hate. You could sing a song perfectly, you could write the songs perfectly, and some people are absolutely going to hate you.

Absolutely Could Going Hate
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“Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.”

Life Song Sing Struggle
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With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on.

Always Back Barrel Bottom
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Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that it's too long, I'll start cutting.

Cutting Finished ISee IWrite
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The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

Always Career Learn Matter
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I've been known to drop a spoken-word bit into a song from time to time. But not straight-up rap. I don't know that I have that gift.

Been Bit Drop Gift
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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is one who will smile, When everything goes dead wrong.
Pleasant Life flows Worth
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The same way you can listen to a song, and be inspired and lifted. You can listen to another and be depressed/defiled…

Same way Listen Inspired Depressed
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I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

Cry Editorial Good GoodSong
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Me is what them call illegitimate, that mean say me is a criminal, bomba rassclaat! That's why me go write a song called 'Illegitimate Children.' It took me years to find out I was one.

Call Children Criminal Find
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I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.

About Attempts Bit Early
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I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there.

Catch Flight Flop Get
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Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.

About Cheap Get His
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When a song isn’t ordinary, even babes are intentional about WORSHIP.

Song Ordinary Babes Intentional
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