- Steve Bell
(taken from Steve's Great "Happy New Year" blog post)
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SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #22 - Steve Bell)
- Steve Bell
(taken from Steve's Great "Happy New Year" blog post)
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SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #21 - Robert Schumann)
"To compose music, all you have to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of."
- Robert Schumann
(thanks to Glenn Teal)
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SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #20 - Anton Chekhov)
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
- Anton Chekhov
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SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #18 - Colin Linden Again!)
"[Toronto Producer] Terry Brown, a very wise man, gave me some great advice about 20 years ago, when I was confused and discouraged. He said, 'If you hang around and keep doing good work, the odds do improve.' A lot of the particulars in the music business have changed, but that bit of advice has remained true."
- Colin Linden
(quoted in Songwriters Magazine)
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SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #17 - Colin Linden)
"Most times you don't write the song, the song writes you."- Colin Linden
(quoted in Songwriters Magazine)
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SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #16 - Nick Lowe)
"… I hadn’t been writing songs very long and, like everybody else who starts out doing anything creative, you start off plundering your heroes’ style and catalogue. When you’ve exhausted that, you move on to somebody else and do the same thing with them, and the day comes when you’re rewriting your latest hero’s works, and you put in a little bit of the first guy’s thing that you ripped off, a middle eight, or a bridge, and as it goes on you include more and more of these bits and pieces that you’ve ripped off, until, suddenly, you haven’t ripped them off at all. They’ve actually become your style. And then all you need is a good idea. And then you really are in business. I remember having this idea—“What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding”—and almost falling over in astonishment that I hadn’t heard this before, that it really was an original notion."
- Nick Lowe
(Thanks to Mike Turitzen's excellent The Songwriting Process Site for discovering this quote in Vanity Fair)
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SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #15) - Bono
"You can have 1000 ideas, but unless you capture an emotion, it's an essay."
- Bono
(Thanks to Greg Norlin for the quote!)
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SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #14) - Guthrie
"A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be who's hungry and where their mouth is or who's out of work and where the job is or who's broke and where the money is or who's carrying a gun and where the peace is."
- Woody Guthrie
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SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #13) - Muggeridge
“In the same sort of way, listening to great music, or reading greatliterature, or standing before great buildings, an inner rhythm is detected, and the heart rejoices, and a light breaks, which is none other than the love of God shining through all His creation.”
– Malcolm Muggeridge
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SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #12) - Vonnegut
“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: ‘The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.”
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (this quote courtesy of our well-read friend, Ken Wilson. Thanks, Ken!)
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SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #11) - Hafiz
"Many say that life entered the human body by the help of music but the truth is that life itself is music." - Hafiz, Fourteenth Century Persian Poet (submitted by Mark D, 'cause Songville had no good 14th C Persian Poet Quotes - Thanks Mark D!)previous quote
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SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #10) - Babe
"But Farmer Hoggett knew that little ideas that tickled and nagged and refused to go away should never be ignored ... for in them lie the seeds of destiny."- Narrator in Babe
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SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #9) - Bell
"Songwriters write in isolation because they can't afford therapy. But the experience of writing the song is not complete until an audience has received it. An exchange must take place." - Steve Bell, in mighty fine concert in Surrey last night (October 17, 2008).previous quote
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SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #8) - Corgan
"Songwriting for me is literally like having five people living in the same body. One day I'm an insular child-like artist, just going by emotion, the next day I'm a crass technician. The person who writes the riffs argues with the person doing the vocals. But the different personalities can work together. Sometimes my heart says 'This song needs to move,' and the tactical part suggests, 'Try a key change.' It goes back and forth until some kind of graceful compromise is reached."
- Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins)
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SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #7) - Abbott & Costello
This special edition Songville quote is for Brendt, who complained because Great Quote #6 was from Elvis, rather than Lou, Costello. Songville aims to please, and fortunately we discovered a great illustration of "record label math" from the movie Buck Privates.Abbott: Do me a favor. Loan me $50.
Costello: I can't lend you $50. All I've got is $40.
Abbott: That's okay. Give me the $40, and you'll owe me $10.
Costello: How come I owe you $10?
Abbott: What did I ask you for?
Costello: $50.
Abbott: What did you give me?
Costello; $40.
Abbott: So you owe me $10.
Costello: That's right. But you owe me $40. Give me my $40 back.
Abbott: There's your $40. Now give me the $10 you owe me. That's the last time I'll ever ask you for the loan of $50.
Costello: How can I loan you $50 now? All I have is $30.
Abbott: Give me the $30, and you’ll owe me $20.
Costello: This is getting worse all the time. First I owe you $10, and now I owe you $20!
Abbott: So you owe me $20. Twenty and 30 is 50.
Costello; Nope! Twenty-five and 25 is 50.
Abbott: Here's your $30. Give me back my $20.
Costello: All I've got now is $10!
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SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #6) - Costello
"There are about five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and twelve notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well."- Elvis Costello
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SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #5) - Adams
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams (American Cartoonist)
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SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #4) - Kristofferson
"All I can do is just remember that William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime, ya gotta keep creating." - Kris Kristofferson
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SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #3) - Finn
"The aim of a good song is, within the context of three minutes. to provide a couple of lines that just go 'bang' in the back of the cranium so that people go, "Yes, I know that feeling.'"
- Neil Finn
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