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For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
Reba McEntire

Sad, Hurt, Healing

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
John Lennon

Life, Love, Peace

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.
Bob Marley

Person, Words, Through

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.
Eminem

Life, Boring, Negativity

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Evil, Russians

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.
Steve Jobs

Second, Million, Hour

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.
Bob Dylan

Write, Decide, Wake

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
Bob Dylan

Political, Through, Song

The people in my songs are all me.
Bob Dylan

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Frank Zappa

Love, Else, Another

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.
Bob Dylan

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
Bob Dylan

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
John Muir

Storm, Few, Silent

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Pain, Laughter, Thought

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
Eddie Vedder

Life, Change, Music

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.
John Oates

Same, Hair, Cake

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
Peter Tosh

Love, Snow, Black

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thought, Tell, Saddest

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.
Taylor Swift

Through, Wish, Alcohol

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
Stevie Nicks

Birthday, Mom, Dad

But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.
Harvey Fierstein

Two, Actually, Voice

But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.
Harvey Fierstein

Different, Through, Play

To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.
Ricky Nelson

Friends, Play, Old

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
Billy Sunday

Art, Mother, Nothing

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.
Henry Rollins

Love, Time, Romantic

For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.
Stevie Nicks

Forget, Two, Friends

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.
David Bowie

Mean, Put, Sometimes

I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.
Charles R. Swindoll

Jesus, Leader, Against

I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug 'Want to kill ya' song, I'm ready to go out and get crazy. Or if you hear this really sexual, sensual slow song, I want to go have sex. I'm very animalistic when it comes to stuff like that. Very basic emotions.
Channing Tatum

Crazy, Sex, Song

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Joseph Addison

Give, Value, Full

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