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No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.


Ezra Koenig

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DAVID LEVITHAN It should be beautiful spectacle, ... The song has always had that kind of vibe.
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DAVID LEOPOLD because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. no matter what...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
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MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I think as different songs kind of cross your path from one source or another, I approach them with ...
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NEIL GAIMAN You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.
SAI BABA The worst things in life come free to us
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RIHANNA While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what&...
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CUI JIAN There's 20 really cutting-edge, cool artists on there, so I was so thrilled to be a part of it, ... ...
CASSANDRA PETERSON I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better ...
THEODORE BIKEL If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the ...
NATE RUESS Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When I was growing up, you would put on a KISS record or a UFO or Aerosmith record and listen to it ...
STEVEN ADLER This time around was different. Daron brought a song in and we had to record it the next day. I just...
SHAVO ODADJIAN As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thin...
NATE RUESS She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Beth has a gift of evoking an emotion with her song that really touches people.
ERROL KOLOSINE 'Despacito' was a song that, from the time I started writing it, I felt that its hook was re...
LUIS FONSI If you weren't shooting, you were rehearsing lines or a song or pre-recording a song.
FRANKIE AVALON I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.
GEORGE THOROGOOD In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is reall...
ALANIS MORISSETTE If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
NAMIE AMURO Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sing me a love song in a slow, southern drawl to the tune of sunny days...
KELLIE ELMORE I really like the P!nk song with the guy from fun., 'Just Give Me a Reason.'
PSY I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern son...
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PHILIP T. M. You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of ...
CHRIS CORNELL Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya.....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There's this process that comes about in writing a song where you just stop and see where it can go....
LUCINDA WILLIAMS I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress ...
VESTA WILLIAMS You can be very efficient with lyrics, and you can get the heart fluttering or soaring or make someo...
KYLIE MINOGUE I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an emot...
VANCE JOY Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a
MICHAEL H. DANSBURY Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hea...
THURSTON MOORE One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Eve...
MANFRED MANN When I sit down to write a song, there is no filter. I'm not trying to write for anyone or anyth...
JENNY LEWIS You mistake patience for forbearance.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Will you make a song for him?' the woman asked.
'He has a song,' the man replied. 'He is the pr...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Ha ha, we kicked your (expletive). Sox fans still love that song. They just had a public poll out he...
ERIC SODERHOLM Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS When I hear somebody like Hayes Carll write a song that's touching and poignant and sad and funn...
JASON ISBELL Have children in the home suggest songs from school. Hold a contest for the happiest song, the best ...
JAMES ELLIOTT You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no g...
JULIE ANDREWS I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far mor...
SYD BARRETT I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, &...
FEFE DOBSON Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
EMORY AUSTIN The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.
JOAN BAEZ The Clash did a song. Nick Cave did a song. All these blues figures have done songs about him. It's ...
COLIN NESBIT I learned very early in life that: "Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man...
ELVIS PRESLEY Aaron, a lot of people probably would not attempt a song like that. The reality is that's a song tha...
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MADELINE MILLER Achilles' eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I wou...
MADELINE MILLER To write a good song, an artist has to drawn from reality. There has to be some spark from realism t...
DARYL HALL I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug 'Want to kill ya' song, I'm ready...
CHANNING TATUM The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song...
GENE CLARK But once you've made a song and you put it out there, you don't own it anymore. The public o...
ED SHEERAN You want the song to be at least at the same level of goodness throughout. Whereas with something yo...
JOHN DARNIELLE That song has gotten us a lot of exposure.
JOEL BLACKMON This is a uni-verse (”one song’). There’s one song playing everywhere and we are all notes in ...
DEREK RYDALL If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself...
JUDY COLLINS A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Let your days become a fragrant song where heaven and earth continually collide
JOHN CROWDER I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in ...
ROBERT HUNTER Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society h...
PETER BART This song probably has the most memorable melody we've ever recorded. I really like how we're using ...
ED KOWALCZYK It's our nation's song, it's a song that is deeply rooted in America's heritage. I think it is reall...
JULIE BRUHN A lot of the surreal writing that I love is really dreamlike. Like Murakami. He uses the real world,...
ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN That song is personal only in that it's about home, ... I really wanted to find a song about Georgia...
TRISHA YEARWOOD I really didn't think about song writing.
ADAM RICH As a songwriter, I do kind of look at 'Santa Monica' as a thing outside of itself, because i...
ART ALEXAKIS I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.
LEONARD COHEN I recorded the song 'Believers' because I feel the song has a strong and much needed message...
JOE NICHOLS I'd want it to be really special to both of us, but I'm a huge fan of 'At Last' as a...
MARY LAMBERT Creatively, it's just fun, to get together with people that I would otherwise be drinking beer with,...
EMILY HAINES I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would...
PAUL MCCARTNEY When I'm singing a song, I'm in that song, and I'm thinking about what emotions I should...
DARIUS RUCKER A country song is a song about life.
ALAN JACKSON Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to expre...
DAMIEN RICE A lot of my fans wanted a kind of 'in your face' song. They wanted a song that exemplifies m...
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EZRA POUND Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mea...
EZRA POUND The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite fem...
EZRA POUND Winter is icumen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the win...
EZRA POUND Either move or be moved.
EZRA POUND No one knows, at sight a masterpiece.
And give up verse, my boy,
There's nothing in it. EZRA POUND I guess the big thing is that I don't buy anything first-hand. It's a personal policy I have...
EZRA MILLER My first kiss was actually in a graveyard.
GEORGE EZRA The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, a...
EZRA POUND Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good...
EZRA POUND When I was growing up, my brother liked the Beatles, and I liked the Rolling Stones. I think if I we...
GEORGE EZRA Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.
EZRA STILES Family is this very deep, complex thing that for most people becomes everything. It informs your ent...
EZRA MILLER I think it's weird that the news cedes so much ground to Wikipedia. That isn't true in other...
EZRA KLEIN Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ...
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