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I still love to do the old songs. I know some people don't.
Bonnie Tyler / Singer
People
Love People Old
Old
Still
Old Songs
Some
Some People
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No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance.
Fred Schneider /
Performing
Songs
Differently
Performance
Old Songs
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I just claim to do what I do, which is to sing old songs and try to make them cool.
Chloe Kohanski /
Cool
Just
Make
Try
Songs
Them
Claim
Old
Old Songs
Sing
Which
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I like mash-ups, taking contemporary songs and making them old... old songs, making them new.
Bria Skonberg /
Contemporary
Old
Making
Old Songs
Taking
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I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.
John Fogerty / Musician
Comfortable
Equipment
Old Song
Song
Now
Lot
Songs
Old
Gotten
Old Songs
Playing
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And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
Beau Bridges / Actor
Family
Friends
Family And Friends
Felt
Hearing
Song
Away
Been
Those
Old
Old Songs
Some
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It is unethical to promote old songs sung by new artistes, and the government should ban these things.
Asha Bhosle /
Unethical
Ban
Old Songs
Promote
Sung
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I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.
Charles Stuart Calverley / Poet
Remember
Deem
Low
Old Songs
Sing
Tis
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I do sometimes go back to my old songs. Some I feel very proud of. They make me wonder, 'How did I do this?'
Amit Trivedi /
Proud
Wonder
Feel
Go
Very
Did
Back
Old
Me Sometimes Feel
Old Songs
Some
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Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.
Frankie Avalon / Actor
Kids
Dvds
Grease
Song
Songs
Respond
Old
Drop
Me Old Know
Hear
Instantly
Old Songs
Pin
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It's not enough to play the old songs; that feels like being your own covers band or something. It's a big release to do new stuff.
Pete Doherty / Musician
Band
Enough
Feels
New Stuff
Release
Stuff
Being
Own
Covers
Old
Old Songs
Something
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My old songs used to take place in Gothenburg; then, when I lived in Melbourne, the songs just naturally took place more in Melbourne.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Melbourne
Naturally
Old Songs
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Nostalgia is one thing. It's great to go and play the old songs. People know them and appreciate them. You got to give them what they want to hear.
Denny Laine /
Great
Appreciate
Nostalgia
People
Play
Want
Thing
Songs
Them
Old
Give
Got
Hear
Old Songs
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I always use the Rolling Stones as the whipping boy for this, but they still play old songs as 90% of their set, and we would die if that were the case.
Lee Ranaldo / Musician
Rolling
Rolling Stones
Stones
Whipping
Die
Boy
Case
Set
Old Songs
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Nowadays, people are re-making old songs and that's good for us because the teenage audiences will get to know who the singer was and who is singing now.
Kumar Sanu /
Teenage
Nowadays
Old Songs
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I love songs but am inhibited to have my characters burst out to express themselves through songs. I use the route of using old songs at the right places.
Sriram Raghavan /
Use
Songs
Burst
Characters
Old
Express
Inhibited
Love Songs
Old Songs
Places
Route
Themselves
Using
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Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.
Johnny Thunders / Guitarist
Clubs
Jerry
Song
Stale
Stay Strong
Staying
Tiny
Anywhere
Old Songs
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To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well.
Andy Taylor /
Bunch
Motivated
Bringing
Set
Goes
Material
New Material
Old Songs
Passively
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I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'
Buck Owens / Musician
Fun
Realizing
Said
Song
Thinking
Wanted
Time Me Fun
Old
Experiment
Record
Old Songs
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People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.
Billy Corgan / Musician
Big Deal
People
Play
Song
Different Thing
Option
Old Songs
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We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.
Fred Frith / Composer
Gravity
Performing
Speechless
Old Songs
Parts
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And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want to, just the favorites.
Dan Hicks /
Good Feeling
Stuck
Warp
Songs
Favorites
Old Songs
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I've always played all the old songs. I'd go and see Peter Gabriel or Madonna and be surprised if they didn't play all the hits. People don't want to come and hear the B-sides.
Toyah Willcox /
Gabriel
Peter
People Always See
Hits
Madonna
Old Songs
Surprised
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I was raised on songs of poetry like Simon and Garfunkel and Cat Stevens and Neil Young, etc. I love those old songs probably the most because they hit me so deep down in my core.
Jessica Steen /
Cat
Core
Deep Down
Etc
Love Poetry Me
Cat Stevens
Neil
Neil Young
Old Songs
Simon
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I take my hat off to people like the Stones, but it's not for me. I couldn't do that. Jagger is brilliant and long may he rock. I couldn't make my career out of old songs; it would do my head in.
Paul Weller / Musician
Brilliant
Jagger
Stones
Hat
Old Songs
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It does feel really good when you play a new song, and it's the loudest singalong of the night. It means just as much when we're playing the old songs, and people are singing along to those, too.
Benji Madden / Guitarist
Singing
Just As Much
Loudest
Old Songs
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Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.
James Weldon Johnson / Author
Congregation
Fervor
Heart
Human Heart
Musical
Religious
Song
Thrilling
Emotions
Missed
Old Songs
Spell
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One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers.
Andrew Fletcher /
Careers
Tours
Old Songs
Plays
Reasons
Survive
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I've always been a big fan of taking old songs and completely turning them on their head. Having no adherence to the fine tradition of the original version. Rearranging them and taking a different approach to them.
Joe Bonamassa /
Adherence
Different Approach
Rearranging
Big Fan
Turning
Old Songs
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Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material.
Merle Haggard / Singer
Attention
Drunk
Song
Doin
Material
New Material
Old Songs
Paying
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I've learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra... I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs.
Harry Connick, Jr. / Singer
Frank
Labels
People
Song
Thinking
Asked
Liked
Period
Interpret
Learned
Old Songs
Realize
Sinatra
Soon
Stereotypes
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You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.
Jeff Tweedy / Songwriter
Chords
Convincing
Energy
Forget
Remember
Swimming
Written
Around
Played
Songs
Less
Old
Spend
Lyrics
Mental
Mental Energy
Obviously
Old Songs
So Much Time
Spent
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Other musicians are basically personalities who want to make a name for themselves. All I do is sing old songs in the best way I can. What else is there to know? If you were a blacksmith, what would people need to know about you other than whether you can make a good horseshoe?
Leon Redbone / Singer
Best Way
Best Good People
Basically
Musicians
Old Songs
Personalities
Sing
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The first time I encountered Stephen Sondheim was like everyone else: through snatches of old songs people performed in drama school, through 'Send in the Clowns,' which everyone knew. I wasn't aware at the time that he was the writing force behind 'West Side Story' and 'Gypsy.'
Michael Ball /
Drama
First Time
Force
Gypsy
Sondheim
West
West Side
West Side Story
Aware
Clowns
Drama School
Encountered
Everyone Else
Old Songs
Performed
Send
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My seven-year-old daughter knows old songs and how the neighborhoods got their names. There are little things: Businesses receive blessings from Hawaiian priests before opening, and everyone's kids have their debut luau. You can't really get through a day without doing something Hawaiian.
Kaui Hart Hemmings / Writer
Daughter
Debut
Little Things
Opening
Priests
Blessings
Businesses
Hawaiian
Neighborhoods
Old Songs
Receive
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A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like on record. If I had total control, I would do a lot of the old songs - not only my songs but Sam Cooke songs, Luther Vandross, melody songs. That's what I would really do if I had an opportunity to do a record.
Darlene Love / Singer
Opportunity
Capture
Luther
Melody
Sound
Versus
Control
Cooke
Old
Total
Times
Record
Old Songs
Sam
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