"But then you have to write a song,……" — Jim Capaldi
"But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics."
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32 Quotes by Jim Capaldi
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Traffic was very, very free. It was great.
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For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
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Guys would hang out in groups just to be with the music.
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I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up.
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I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.
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I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of…
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I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first…
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Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.
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So the name of a group has to say something. The name has to be strong.
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We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.
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Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the…
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We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very…
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More Lyrics Quotes
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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.
— Sebastian Bach
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I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.
— Jello Biafra
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Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most…
— Bjork
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I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.
— Nick Cave
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Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.
— Tracy Chapman
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I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics…
— Leonard Cohen
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Where words fail, music speaks.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?'…
— Ian Anderson
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And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy.
— Julie Andrews
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"The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know"
— Michel Legrand
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...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe…
— Maya Angelou
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