Al Jardine Quotes, Song Quotes, Writing Quotes

There's no way to learn how to write a hit song. There's no formula for it. You just have to have it inside of you.

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Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever have… redemption songs; redemption songs.

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Tags : Bob Marley Quotes , Song Quotes , Redemption Quotes

Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Wise Quotes , Song Quotes

Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start.

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The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

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I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

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Tags : Alan Price Quotes , Song Quotes , Sometimes Quotes

His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed —that voice was a deathless song.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Song Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.

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Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.

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O flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river Linger to kiss thy feet! O flower of song, bloom on, and make forever The world more fair and sweet.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Song Quotes , Sweet Quotes

Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.

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“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.

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Tags : Al Yankovic Quotes , Song Quotes , Artist Quotes

I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits - and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!

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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

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Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.

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So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you're doing something right.

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Tags : Adam Lambert Quotes , Song Quotes , Freak 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 love the balls-to-the-walls rule-breaking approach the Beatles had in the studio (which I emulate), although I don't try to make my songs "sound" like their songs. But every time I crank a knob of some piece of equipment, or plug an instrument into the "wrong" amp/effect, I am channeling the Beatles.

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Tags : Alan Cohen Quotes , Song Quotes , Wall Quotes

Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

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