"We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it."
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"She had heard Papa sing so many songs about the heart; the heart that was breaking - was aching - was dancing -was heavy laden - that leaped for joy - that was heavy in sorrow - that turned over - that stood still. She really believed the heart actually did those things."
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"The Pink Panther is legendary, but a lot of people my age haven't ever seen the original. So, I think it's great to bring it back for my generation, and to expose them to where that theme song which still sounds so modern and that legendary image of a pink cat came from. It's great to be a part of that, because it's history."
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"I'll put on a song that I really like and do bicep curls with two kilo weights the whole song."
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"When I was writing the Destiny's Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn't know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it."
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"I think romance basically starts with respect. And new romance always starts with respect. Like the song 'Love the One You're With'; there is something to that. It's not just make love to whomever you're with, it's just love whomever you're with."
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"There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste."
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"The judges say, make it your own, so I just remixed a song if I felt like the piece needed it"
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"I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams."
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"There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the specific muse that inspired "It's Alright Ma" would not return."
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"And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’ But I’ll know my song well before I start singin"
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""Like a Rolling Stone" [of Bob Dylan] is a kiss-off song like none before or since."
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"The highlight of my career? That's easy, Elvis recording one of my songs."
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"I just wanted a song to sing, and there came a point where I couldn't sing anything...nobo dy else was writing what I wanted to sing. I couldn't find it anywhere. If I could I probably would never have started writing."
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"I don't write the songs; I just write 'em down."
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"You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs."
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"Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum."
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"If you don't have to write songs, why write them? I've got enough where I don't really feel the urge to write anything additional."
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""Tangled Up in Blue," shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a "tangled" version of [Bob] Dylan's marriage and dissolution."
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"A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter."
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