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• I don’t need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I know Bill will be playing what I’m playing anyway. I need to hear Keith because it’s all there: the time, the chord changes, and all the licks you have to follow.

  Charlie Watts

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  Tags in Need, Song, Playing

• We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.

  Charlie Byrd

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  Tags in Play, Song

• The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother.

  Celine Dion

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  Tags in Written, Song, Recorded

• Even if you’re specific about the character of the song, it’s more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

  Robert Wyatt

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  Tags in Character, Song

• I’m not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I’m sorry that I’ve done a Neil Diamond song.

  Robert Wyatt

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  Tags in Sorry, Song

• People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.

  Robert Wyatt

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  Tags in Far, Song, Lives

• Every song is something that I’ve been through or an emotion I’ve felt – like falling in love or heartbreak.

  Ashlee Simpson

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  Tags in Song, Felt

• What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

  Daisy Berkowitz

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  Tags in Song, Band, Hear

• I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug “Want to kill ya” song, I’m ready to go out and get crazy. Or if you hear this really sexual, sensual slow song, I want to go have sex. I’m very animalistic when it comes to stuff like that. Very basic emotions.

  Channing Tatum

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  Tags in Crazy, Song, Inspired

• If I love a song, I make it mine.

  Chaka Khan

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Song

• Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.

  William Christopher Handy

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  Tags in Mate, Song

• When you sing a song the way I sing it, you have to use your whole body. It’s almost like working out.

  Robert Goulet

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  Tags in Working, Whole, Song

• Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming… So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.

  William Bell

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  Tags in Growing Up, Song

• She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.

  William Allingham

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  Tags in Heart, Song

• That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

  Robert Browning

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  Tags in Over, Song

• I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.

  Will Oldham

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  Tags in Write, Recorded, Song, Performance

• Writing songs is a profession; so it’s not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.

  Will Oldham

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  Tags in Song, Writing, Profession

• The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

  Robert Anton Wilson

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• I’ve never worried about how long the song is.

  Adam Jones

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  Tags in Worried, Song

• Everything I do is collaborative. It’s just my way. I’m really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

  Cassandra Wilson

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  Tags in Everything, Song