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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
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"I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems like every once in a while, two people get it figured out, two people get it right. And so I think the rest of us, we walk around daydreaming about what that might be like. To find that one great love, where all of a sudden everything that seemed to be so complicated, became simple. And everything that used to seem so wrong all of a sudden seemed right because you were with the person who made you feel fearless."

Thinking Writing Song
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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
Song

"It's one of the craziest feelings to be on stage and know that you were sitting on your bedroom floor when that song came to be and now there's an arena full of people singing it."

People Song Feelings
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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
Song

"I would just be constantly writing all these zingers - like, 'Burn. That would really get her.' And I know people are going to obsess over who it's about, because they think they have all my relationships mapped out. But there's a reason there are not any overt call-outs in that song. My intent was not to create some gossip-fest. I wanted people to apply it to a situation where they felt betrayed in their own lives."

Thinking Writing Song
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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
Song

"You should vote for Neoprene Byzantine in the Hot Hundred, they're really sweet guys and that Moscow song is just wow! Hurry guys voting closes really soon mwah!"

Song Guy Sweet
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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
Song

"When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that."

Writing Song Falling In Love
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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
Song

"I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!"

Song Fun Wall
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Song

"Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song."

Life Song Add
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Ramsey Lewis Jazz Pianist and Composer
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"Everything comes from one thing, everything comes from the Spirit. Jazz would not exist had it not been for gospel music, the blues would not exist had it not been for spiritual blues, which goes back to slave songs our fore fathers were singing while they were out in the field. So it's all one continuous growth from one group of people. Of course jazz now is played by various cultures and colors around the world. But the stimulus is One Voice."

Song Spiritual Father
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Ray J Singer and Actor
Song

"Raydiation is more mature, reveals more about me personally and focuses on singing and songs that people can relate to."

People Song Singing
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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph."

Song Should Have Victory
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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
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"A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art."

Art Song Fall
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Tommy Shaw Musician
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"When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue."

Song Legs Hook
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Tracy Chapman Singer-Songwriter
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"I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!"

Song Together Weather
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Trey Parker Animator, Writer, Director
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"To me, every episode is like a song, and every season is like an album. There's that part of the day when you first get the idea and you say, "This could be really funny." And you sit down and you write it. There's just something that happens there that doesn't happen when you really give it a lot of time beforehand."

Writing Ideas Song
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