#songs

A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write. ↗

— Joan Jett

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I translated Beatles songs for my English class. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

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My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song. ↗

— Avril Lavigne

#bubble #dance #dancers #every #gum

People take songs so literally. ↗

— Richard Marx

#people #songs #take

And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation. ↗

— Phil Lesh

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A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song. ↗

— John Mellencamp

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We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

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I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs. ↗

— Bob Livingston

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I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

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I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing. ↗

— Steve Martin

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