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Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so… — Kurt Cobain
We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very… — Leonard Cohen
Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in… — Leonard Cohen
For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it… — Tori Amos
I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks… — Jarvis Cocker
The most entertaining songs don't always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I'm being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually.… — Jarvis Cocker
I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do. — Jarvis Cocker
My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs. — Leonard Cohen
I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then… — Gregg Allman
I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on… — Eric Alterman
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must… — Henri Frederic Amiel
I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical. — Tori Amos
If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone. — Tori Amos
Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds… — Tori Amos
My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and… — Tori Amos
When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is… — Tori Amos
In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded… — Ian Anderson
And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy. — Julie Andrews
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I… — Maya Angelou
I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it. — Maya Angelou
I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine… — Maya Angelou
I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how. — Fiona Apple
Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going… — Fiona Apple
I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs. Now, rather… — Fiona Apple
From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music,… — Tom Araya

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