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“Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.”

Ideas Song Behinds Player Rocks Band Glory Concepts Rock And Roll Digging Ragged Cassettes

Author:Krist Novoselic

“I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.”

Stories Song Behinds Written Havens Engaging

Author:Cassandra Wilson

“I was in a karaoke video in 1991, for a song called 'Sukiyaki,' which is a very famous Japanese song, and I've actually heard from people that they've been in bars in Asia where they've seen me come up in the 'Sukiyaki' video that they play behind you. I'm in that. I'm in a karaoke video.”

People Play Song Behinds Heard Come Up Bars Video Asia Behind You Karaoke Very Famous

Author:Michael Weatherly

“My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn't abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all.”

Trying Mean Stills Real Done Eye Song Behinds Focus Band Thoughtful

Author:Ian MacKaye

“With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying train of Life, fly backward far and fast The milestones of the fathers, the landmarks of the past. But human hearts remain unchanged: the sorrow and the sin, The loves and hopes and fears of old, are to our own akin; And if, in tales our fathers told, the songs our mothers sung, Tradition wears a snowy beard, Romance is always young.”

Source: Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I., the Works of Whittier

“Along with a lot of other things, becoming a Bob Dylan fan made me a writer. I was never interested in figuring out what the songs meant. I was interested in figuring out my response to them, and other people's responses. I wanted to get closer to the music than I could by listening to it - I wanted to get inside of it, behind it, and writing about it through it, inside of it, behind it, was my way of doing that.”

People Way Writing Made Wanted Song Behinds Fans Listening Becoming Response My Way Bob Dylan

Book:Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010

Source: Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010

“We'd be making sail in the dawn, with a fair breeze, singing a chanty song wid no care to it. And astern the land would be sinking low and dying out, but we'd give it no heed but a laugh, and never look behind. For the day that was, was enough, for we was free men - and I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come - until they're old like me.”

Thinking Men Giving Looks Enough Would Be Care Song Behinds Laughing Gone Land Dying Singing Lows Fairs Slave Like Me Dawn Sail Breeze Heed Free Man Sinking Days To Come

Book:The Hairy Ape

Source: The Hairy Ape

“In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.”

Character Used Song Behinds Attention Fictional Character

Author:Mika

“A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song.”

Source: Frost and Fire

“There's a story behind every old ballad or work song or nonsense song that I ever knew. Sometimes it's a fascinating story. A story of people struggling for freedom, struggling to get along in this old world.”

People World Sometimes Stories Song Behinds Struggle Nonsense Fascinating Ballads Old World

Author:Pete Seeger

“There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or she might succeed in capturing in a few dozen words what great writers have spent years trying to say. Just the right word in the right place with the right melody behind it and the right rhythm. It might get around the world inch by inch, and people realize that this world is in danger, that we're in danger. That's the way "This Land Is Your Land" got to be so well known.”

“When I play with the full band, you get to be larger than life, you feel larger than life, and that particular moment in the song where there's passion, you've got nine guys behind you, all driving that sound and that feeling with you. That's like surfing a huge wave, because once you start you really can't stop it, you got it going down a huge mountain.”

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Author:Jason Mraz

“I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.”

Feelings Song Behinds Groove Dance Music

Author:Michael Kiwanuka

“If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals or the production or the vibe. There was performance and then there was the song, and that was all that you had.”

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Author:Will Sheff

“I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling.”

Writing Feelings Song Behinds Writing Songs

Author:Andy Biersack