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Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter
Song

"Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port of Montreal. Everything happened just as it was put down. She was the wife of a man I knew. Her hospitality was immaculate. Some months later I sang it for Judy Collins over the telephone. The publishing rights were lost in New York City, but it is probably appropriate that I don't own this song. Just the other day I heard some people singing it on a ship in the Caspian Sea."

Men Song New York
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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist
Song

"To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing."

Song Guitar Singing
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Lewis Black Comedian, Actor, Author
Song

"If you listen to a song and get an image in your head, and then you go home and watch mtv and the image they're showing is the same as the one in your head, kill yourself. You're better off coming back as a lobster."

Home Song Funny
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Jimi Hendrix Musician, Guitarist
Song

"I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time... I'll give it right back to you, one of these days"

Mean Song Sweet
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Jimmy Hill Sports Commentator, Journalist
Song

"In the words of the old song, it's a long time from May to December but, you know, it's an equally long time from December to May."

Long Song May
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John Lennon Musician, Activist
Song

"I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus."

Writing Play Song
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John Wayne Actor, Director
Song

"Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West--the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the opening of a new territory. It took everybody out of their own little world. The cowboy lasted a hundred years, created more songs and prose and poetry than any other folk figure. The closest thing was the Japanese samurai. Now, I wonder who'll continue it."

Country Song Cowboy
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Martin Gore Musician
Song

"When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life."

Writing Love Song
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Peggy Lee Singer
Song

"I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material. I feel a responsibility for the emotion it brings out in the listener."

Song Responsibility Singing
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Eubie Blake Composer
Song

"All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?"

Song Able Musician
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Elliott Smith Musician
Song

"I think the suggestion that all my songs are personal is insulting because that assumes that I have a bunch of issues that I feel the need to unload on strangers. That is not the case. It also assumes that I just talk about myself the whole time which, again, is not true."

Thinking Song Issues
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Dean Young Poet
Song

"You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat."

Lying Song Coats
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Blake Shelton Singer, Songwriter
Song

"Come a little closer, love the way you look tonight My eyes are the only thing I don't wanna take off of you"

Country Eye Song
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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
Song

"It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs. When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail. This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

Running Song Busting Out
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Brian Wilson Musician
Song

"People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation in nature and sunshine and so on...like 'California Girls' which was a hymn to youth."

Song Girl Pain
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Willie Nelson Musician, Actor
Song

"At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling."

Country Song Powerful
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