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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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What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

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I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.

Also Audience Changed Early
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It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

About Back Blowing Bringing
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When a song isn’t ordinary, even babes are intentional about WORSHIP.

Song Ordinary Babes Intentional
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I don't care what people say about my relationship; I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs; I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music.

About Buying Care Don't Care
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I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

Funny Girl Meaning Quirky
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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.

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I write my songs because I've lived them.

Because I Write Lived Songs
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Songwriting's a weird game.

Game Songwriting Weird Music
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Songwriting's a weird game. I never intended to become one - I fell into this by mistake, and I can't get out of it. It fascinates me. I like to point out the rawer points of life.

Become Fascinates Fell Game
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Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We can never rely on inspiration. When we most want it, it does not come.

Entire annual Songs Inspiration
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Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.

Because Better Great Just
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I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.

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I listen to all the top 20 songs, and top 20 albums, even the rap albums. But I don't like negative messages. If somebody is putting a lot of ego out there, I don't like it. When I make my records I want it to be sincere.

Albums Ego Even Like
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Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.

Business Dreamer Good Good Song
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I was really amazed when I started hearing 'Songbird' on the radio. I couldn't believe that the record company promotion department had actually convinced radio music directors to play it -because there wasn't anything like it on the radio at the time.

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We're not one of those groups who have one song on the radio and, boom, they're an instant success. We worked hard from day one and didn't get a lot of respect, possibly because of the way we were marketed.

Because Boom Day Day One
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The songwriting did come naturally; it really did. Like Joe said, the first song we ever wrote together was the song that got us signed, you know, so it was either luck, fate, or something in between.

Between Come Did Either
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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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For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

Darkness Gets Healing Hurt
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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.

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I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

Because Car CDs Everybody
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You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

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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.

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To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

Bad Good GoodAndBad GoodOnes
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I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.

Get Going He Hey
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A good song has to have a great melody, and the lyrics have to touch my heart. Now, if it's just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can't make you feel good.

Another Feel FeelGood Good
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I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

Been Boy First I Think
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Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This may sound egotistical, but it makes sense.

Any Artist Egotistical Feeling
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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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To me, the best love songs work on two - maybe three - different levels, where you're talking about the person who you're right opposite, and all the people like that.

About Best Different Different Levels
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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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If it hadn't been for Johnny Cash, I'd probably have been a Nashville songwriter because that's what I had done for almost five years.

Almost Because Been Cash
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I used to think that my songs were the best things that I would leave behind me. And I definitely think my kids are now. For starters, they're writing better songs than I was at their age.

Age Behind Best Better
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Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play.

Act Being Cover Dylan
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Although my songs reflect many issues which are relevant in my society. I believe that human relations are the site where all issue emerge.

My song Relevant Society Human relations
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Up in the mountains, Down in the valley, Am singing this song for you just to get my baby back, I miss you.

Mountains Valley Singing Song
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During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.

Listening Sabbatical Songs Spent
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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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When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist. I would grab a wooden spoon and I would start singing, even if it was for my uncles and my aunts. And I would just sing any lah-lah song.

Any Artist Aunts Business
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A hit is when you perform and people know the song. People like the song and can relate with it.

A hit Perform People know Song
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The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

Alone Earth Easier Hear
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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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That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

Careless Could Each Fine
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His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.

Bill Dull Full Had
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I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it.

Anglican Certain Church Country
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I was advised to seize the opportunity and sing the tribute song for Mandela because I was inspired by his story, and he was not only loved in South Africa but in the whole world.

Advised Opportunity Sing Tribute
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If you have listened to some of my songs, you would notice that they have stories. I use my songs to tell stories.

Listened Songs Have stories Tell
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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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