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Song Quotes

The feeling behind every song.

These song quotes emphasize sincerity as the key to a performance that actually reaches an audience, along with the idea that a song can capture a live moment as it happens. One entry recalls a song tied to an early anti-drug campaign, showing how songs can carry a specific message. Related picks continue in our Feel quotes.

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When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.

Quotes by Agnetha Faltskog

9

It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.

Quotes by Agnes Obel

8

I really believe it's not bad to look back within music. I don't mean retro, but using your own memories to make a song because our memories are what make us who we are.

Quotes by Agnes Obel

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With 'Philharmonics,' I had to do a lot of interviews, and it was like I was corrupting something. In many ways, I've said everything in the song. And either I can't go back to what it was because it's changing...

Quotes by Agnes Obel

Feel Quotes

6

When you're walking down the street or in the car just listening to the radio, and you're, like, 'Oh, that's my song.' You want to say, 'Hey Mom!' That never changes.

Quotes by Afrojack

5

Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.

Quotes by Afrojack

4

I want to make an album my grandma and my fans are going to like. I want to make my grandma understand a drop and make club fans understand a song.

Quotes by Afrojack

3

If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.'

Quotes by Afrojack

2

My brothers each reacted differently to 'Blood Sandwich.' It's a very specific type of odd feeling when there's a song written about you. People react to it differently.

Quotes by Aesop Rock

Good Quotes

1

After much inner debate, I can safely proclaim that Mungo Jerry's 'In the Summertime' may, in fact, be the best song ever recorded.

Quotes by Aesop Rock

Another entry describes songwriting as a solitary process rather than a group effort, a reminder that creative habits vary widely. See also Life quotes and Good quotes.