Adam Duritz Quotes, Song Quotes, Successful Quotes

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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I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Song Quotes , Later In Life Quotes

People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.

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Tags : Alan Lomax Quotes , Song Quotes , Land Quotes

Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

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

I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.

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Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

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The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Song Quotes , Pain Quotes

The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you. Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.

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Tags : Ajahn Chah Quotes , Letting Go Quotes , Song Quotes

Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales? If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Song Quotes

I started writting songs when I was really little because there were things I could say through songs that I couldn't verbalize any other way. Writting was something I had to do.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Song Quotes , Littles Quotes

Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Song Quotes , Book Quotes

When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Song Quotes , Sound Quotes

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

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I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.The play didn't make it but I was a success. It lasted six days but I sung four songs and there were critics, seriously, in New York who said that my part was perfect. So I can beat Joe Frazier singing.

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I live alone in a house, so for me it's very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and escape from reality and that's usually when I write most of my lyrics and my songs. It's a very happy productive place.

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Tags : Adam Young Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Sad Quotes , Song 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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Tags : Al Jardine Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Love Quotes , Song Quotes

You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Song Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.

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Tags : Robert Burns Quotes , Song Quotes , Sweet Quotes