#songs

I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety. ↗

— Norah Jones

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You know, when you're making a record, you come up with 15, 20 songs. Then they start to fall by the wayside as your interest wanes. It's kind of like a process of elimination to determine which songs wind up on the record. ↗

— David Johansen

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As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift. ↗

— R. Kelly

#am #because #been #doing #feel

When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song. ↗

— Alicia Keys

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But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#art #back #band #came #connected

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen. ↗

— Patti LaBelle

#am #did #hip #hip hop #hip-hop

I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations. ↗

— Nate Ruess

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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me. ↗

— Julian Casablancas

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