#song

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells. ↗

— B. B. King

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It doesn't take me long to write songs. ↗

— Ben E. King

#me #songs #take #write

When we play "Angel of Death", it's actually a 2 and half minutes sing 'til our party starts. That song is pretty much been played traditionally in the end. ↗

— Kerry King

#angel #been #death #end #half

Even though there's these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there's any good riffs in them, we raped the songs and put in the new ones. ↗

— Kerry King

#even #good #hell #internet #new

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free. ↗

— Anna Akhmatova

#courage #fit #free #great #our

Each song has its own secret that's different from another song, and each has its own life. Sometimes it has to be teased out, whereas other times it might come fast. There are no laws about songwriting or producing. It depends on what you're doing, not just who you're doing. ↗

— Mark Knopfler

#another #come #depends #different #doing

After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written. ↗

— Mark Knopfler

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What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory. ↗

— Mark Knopfler

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While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune. ↗

— Mark Knopfler

#feeling #head #i #instance #like

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song. ↗

— Paul Tillich

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