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• While I’m playing baseball, I’m still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I’m sure I’ll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I’ll be thinking of music then.

  Garth Brooks

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  Tags in Singer, Writing, Songs

• In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.

  Bruce Springsteen

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• My songs are like my kids.

  Billy Joel

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  Tags in Like, Songs

• Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won’t mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.

  Pete Townshend

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  Tags in Salvation, Savior, Mention, Songs, Jesus

• I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.

  Jasmine Guy

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  Tags in Haircut, Public Relations, Songs, Matter

• My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

  Justin Timberlake

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  Tags in Misconceptions, Diapers, Lemur, Leprosy, Biggest, Songs

• Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock’n’roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I’ve done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back.

  Elvis Costello

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  Tags in Songs, Different, Type

• I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I’m going to get Jackie Ward to record.

  Reba McEntire

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• So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

  Stephen Sondheim

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• I don’t listen to recordings of my songs. I don’t avoid it, I just don’t go out of my way to do it.

  Stephen Sondheim

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• After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

  Stephen Sondheim

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• I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.

  Sting

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• Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don’t see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that.

  Suzanne Vega

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  Tags in Songs, Writers

• I’ve written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I’m trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

  Suzy Bogguss

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• We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we’d been performing that, but we don’t do that any more.

  Fred Frith

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Songs, Writing, Performing

• John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

  Ben Kingsley

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• Some of the best songs I’ve written, I’ve written in 10 minutes.

  Christine McVie

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  Tags in Best, Written, Songs

• That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs.

  Charlie Byrd

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  Tags in Songs, Fun

• But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.

  Edie Brickell

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• There’s a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don’t know what the title of it is.

  Edgar Winter

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  Tags in Self, Album, Songs