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Andrew Peterson Musician
Song

"Art, if it can be ascribed value, is most valuable when its beauty (and the beauty of the truth it tells) bewilders, confounds, defies evil itself; it does so by making what has been unmade; it subverts the spirit of the age; it mends the heart by whispering mysteries the mind alone can’t fathom; it fulfills its highest calling when into all the clamor of Hell it tells the unbearable, beautiful, truth that Christ has died, Christ is risen, and Christ will come again. None of these songs and stories matter if the beauty they’re adding to isn’t the kind of beauty that redeems and reclaims."

Art Beautiful Song
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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
Song

"My dad is adorably optimistic, positive, pie-in-the-sky. He thinks every new song I write is my best. He sells T-shirts at my merchandise stands and hands out guitar picks to fans."

Writing Song Dad
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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
Song

"I wrote a song called 'Red' and thinking about what that song means to me and all the different emotions on this album they're all pretty much about the tumultuous, crazy, insane, intense, semi-toxic relationships I've experienced in the last two years. All those emotions fanning from intense love, intense frustration, intense jealousy, confusion, all of that in my mind, all those emotions are red. There's nothing in between, there's nothing beige about those feelings and so I called my record that."

Mean Song Crazy
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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
Song

"There are videos where I would go approaching strangers and sing the songs from 'The Lion King. I would have been about four years, and I came running up to people on the beach, strangers that I chose at random and began to sing, and my family never knew where I was, they were always looking for me, trying to imagine who I was harassing this time ."

Running Song Beach
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Randy Bachman Musician, Songwriter
Song

"Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like."

Two Song Firefighter
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Song

"There are more similarities than differences when it comes to preparation of a performance. You're using some lyrics, you have a relationship with them, they apply to different parts of your life and different circumstances, different memories, different stories you have in your head. You form personal relationships with the song. I think that's very similar, in a way, to prepping a character. You pour your own personality, in a sense, into the character, you sympathize with a character in a way that's similar to the way you might sympathize with a song."

Character Song Memories
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Scott Adams Cartoonist
Song

"Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing."

Song Age Hip Hop
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Tommy Shaw Musician
Song

"I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about"

Song Wish Bathroom
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Tracy Chapman Singer-Songwriter
Song

"Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs."

Trying Song Connections
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Trey Parker Animator, Writer, Director
Song

"So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of 'The Most Offensive Song Ever' with lyrics intact."

Song Albums Christmas
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Tom Waits Singer-songwriter, Actor
Song

"Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs."

Song Goodbye Rope
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Richard Thompson Musician
Song

"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."

Writing Song Experience
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Richard Thompson Musician
Song

"I think it's absolutely possible to write a song and go somewhere where no one's been before, uncharted territory. In terms of content, I see limitations where there should be none. I know there are things I wouldn't write about, but that shouldn't be the case. You should be able to make a song out of anything, out of any situation."

Thinking Writing Song
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