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“Every song is like a painting.”
“A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.”
“What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song,...”
“The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That's why people feel each song differently. I get all my vibes from rock music, you know? All my melodies and a...”
“Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.”
“When you learn a Bruce Springsteen song, it's like learning to ride a bike. You don't forget it.”
“It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.”
“You're a song written by the hands of God.”
“I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.”
“It's such a strange marriage, a song and someone that sings it. When that works, it really works, and when it doesn't, it doesn't.”
“'Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.”
“I'm a sucker for a sad song.”
“You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.”
“I totally accept that it's a legitimate criticism that when you are involved in the day-to-day scrum of government... that what can get lost is the narrative, the hymn sheet... the song that inspir...”
“When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'”
“The first thing that inspires me is my mood, but I take inspiration from a lot of things: a rock song, a romantic movie or a specific lifestyle, like 1960s London and, of course, Italian 'dolce vita!'”
“I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.”
“'Before I Ever Met You' was the first one to come out and that just dives into the grit, and it's pretty graphic about a relationship. For my first song, it was very special the way it happened, be...”
“The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry.”
“When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry...”
