Alan Licht Quotes, Song Quotes, Writing Quotes

I think for many songwriter/performers, you need to go off by yourself and write the songs to begin with, but then you need people to bring them to life. So you have to be comfortable with solitude and also with being very social.

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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.

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Tags : Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes , Song Quotes , Prayer Quotes

I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Country Quotes , Song Quotes

Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Song Quotes , Men Quotes

For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."

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Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

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Tags : Adam Duritz Quotes , Song Quotes , Successful Quotes

I have a notebook that I take with me everywhere. I free-write in it when there are situations that I know I can write a song about. I will just start writing everything that I can think of while trying to write some things that are kind of poetic or sound like they could be in a song. Then, after the music is written, I go back and look at my subjects to see which one I think woud go with what music. Then, I formulate it into a melody and get the song.

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Tags : Agent M Quotes , Notebook Quotes , Song Quotes

The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Life Quotes , Song Quotes

I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

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Tags : Al Yankovic Quotes , Song Quotes , Ideas Quotes

For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Song Quotes , Morning Quotes

I've always found it pretty difficult to write a happy song.

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Tags : Aaron Bruno Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

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Tags : Alan Price Quotes , Song Quotes , Sometimes Quotes

Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Summer Quotes , Song Quotes

Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Summer Quotes , Song Quotes

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.

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Tags : Adele Quotes , Song Quotes , Interviews Quotes

I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I've got to do something with you.

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Tags : Alan Vega Quotes , Song Quotes , Couple Quotes

There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle Haggard, you're beating a dead horse.

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Tags : Aaron Watson Quotes , Cheating Quotes , Song Quotes

What's amazing about a DJ set is when you're able to re-appropriate a song or give purpose to a song that people didn't really think it was supposed to have. Give it this sort of hidden power by playing it before this song and after that one. That it fits into this logic and it goes farther than you thought it could go.

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Tags : A-Trak Quotes , Song Quotes , Thinking Quotes

It's easy to say that reducing a song to 90 seconds on "American Idol" strips off so many things, and how it's the 21st century and music doesn't mean the same things to people and that it's so disposable.

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Tags : Alan Light Quotes , Song Quotes , Mean Quotes

The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.

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Tags : Aaron Taylor-Johnson Quotes , Song Quotes , Dancing Quotes