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" Quotes and Sayings About a song

I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.

Angst Appreciate Boring Cool
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You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.

Baby Connect Connection Passion
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My version of 'Georgia' became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.

Became Big Big Thing Declaring
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But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.

Demos Finished FinishedProduct Going
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I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.
Cut Forgotten Never Record
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I don't think I'm that good a singer. I can't think of a song that I've written that I don't like the way somebody else sings it better.

Better Else Good Like
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My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.

Amazing Because Could Goal
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Don’t you hate when a song has been out for a minute and it’s mad dope but you are the last to get on it

Song Minute Dope Mad
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I think so far, the deepest song I have sung is reggae blues. The truth is that reggae blues was meant to be the kind of song that would make you just sit down and think about your life. But we turned it into a song that would make you dance, and forget about your sorrows.

Deepest song Reggae blues Truth Sit down
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?

Any Bullets Compared Dungeons
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I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.

Always Barrel Bottom Felt
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Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

Always Man Objective Reach
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Folk Folk Music Heard Horse
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You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.

Able Audience Doing Feel
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Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

Affect Air Create More
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I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

Believe Better Even Explains
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I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

Around Artists Creativity Every
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I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
Being Could Out Pretending
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When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.

Actually Almost Come May
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By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn’t need pen or paper – my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

First album Need pen My memory
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I grew up in some suburb, I’d come out with a song about potholes in my lawn.

Grew up Some suburb Song
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It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous.

Dangerous game Write A song A person
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God's blessings are beyond money; they could be a contact, an instruction, a book you read, an inspiration, a song,endless!

God's blessings Beyond money A contact An instruction
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Music is powerful.More so, Anointed and sacred music. Have you ever been down, but then you heard a song and everything changed?

Music Powerful Anointed Sacred music
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Watch a movie that makes you laugh or listen to a song that makes you cry. Embrace your emotions and be proud of what you feel.

A movie You laugh Listen to A song
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Life is a song,sing it.Life is a game,play it. Life is a challenge,meet it. Life is a dream,realize it. Life is a sacrifice,offer it. Life is love,enjoy it..

Life A song Sing it A game
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You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.

Must pass In songs Whole life
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I think the melody is the first time I hear in a song and if I like the melody, then I'll pay closer attention to the lyrics.

Think Melody Song Lyrics
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Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

Everything Ideas Life Song
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The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in.

Best way Write Song Think
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You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.

You Sing Song
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