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" Quotes and Sayings About 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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Birds sing not because they have answers but because they have songs.

Bird Sing Have They
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If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.

Get One Way Find
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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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I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.

Music Love Profound Jazz
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To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.

About Because Better Bigger
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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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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

Home Instrument Make Only
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The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.

Add Always Am Anything
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May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.

Song May Heart Joyful
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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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I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

Albums Artwork Being Enjoy
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Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
Really Some Songs Strangely
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Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

Frankly Input Interesting Interpretations
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I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

Anything Colour Expression Like
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I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt - you know, I had to go out and do them.

Because Best Doing Else
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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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Pretty much my whole life, I've been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

Ear Life Loved Much
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The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him.

Lord Strength Heart Trust
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You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

Songbird Sing Trap Bird
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“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry out their dream.”

Problem Determination Carry Dream
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I knew 'Ojuelegba' was a good song, but I didn't expect it to blow up the way that it did.

Blow Did Expect Good
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Umm... my favourite Wizkid tune of all time would be 'Don't Dull' 'cos I recorded the track in, like, 5 minutes. The beat was ready, we went into the studio and freestyled, and it was ready. The song became really, really big, so I think 'Don't Dull' is still my favourite.

Beat Became Big Dull
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Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

Country Even Feeling Listen
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When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song.

Hear Know Me Regardless
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If a song was ever good, it's still good.
Ever Good Song Still
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Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.

Chords Country Song Three
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Great songs stand out wherever they're from.
Great Great Songs Out Songs
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You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It's all about the inflection.

About Any Could Creepy
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Everything about Sinatra was good. He had the ability to pick great songs, and once Sinatra had sung them, that pretty much was it. He pretty much put his stamp on everything.

Ability About Everything Good
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A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.

Art Chords Country Country Music
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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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Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

Hopeless Romantic Love Time
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Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

Heartbreak Definitely Deeper Sensibility
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I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.

Really Need Stand Room
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It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.

Warts All Songs Think
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I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.

Doubt Singing Forever Because
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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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In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

Songs Really Direct Interviews
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I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.

Don't Easy Songs Cuss
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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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I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing.

Don't Write Songs About
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If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

If Were Writer Singer
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In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.

Hate Write Tragic Person
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There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Song Music Love Anything
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I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

Careful Forget Get In The Past
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A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

Bad Come Day Feel
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