Song Repetition Quotes

Bob Dylan - I will listen to any of his songs over and over.

I've probably listened to 'Try Me' by DeJ Loaf 500 times. It's a little slower than your typical strut BPM, but it still works.

There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written.

For the first 12 years of recording I would finish the album, then on the day it came out I'd never hear the songs again.

'Rather Be' and 'Real Love' are two of the most fun songs to perform; they're such feel-good tracks. 'Rather Be,' especially - I've sung it so many times, but I'm still not bored of it.

At a crude estimate, I must have played 'Thunder Road' 1,500 times.

Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.

There's not one day that goes by that I'm not listening to one of my songs or in rehearsal for one of my songs or dancing to one of my songs.

There are so many songs I've recorded, only to hear other people singing them. It happens all the time.

Recording 'Ten,' we probably did 'Even Flow' 30 times.

I have some songs on 'Tha Carter V,' but if I hear a song five times, I don't like it no more.

It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired.

The Raspberries had recorded some ballads on every one of our albums, but after 'Go All The Way' was successful Capital pretty much wanted to hear nothing but 'Go All The Way.'

I never really got the book together for the thing, so I had all the songs and the characters. But by the time we'd gotten it on the road and I'd been doing it for 18 months, oh God, I couldn't wait to move on to something else.

Beyond hoping that someone will like one of my songs, I don't think about how a song will be received. I just hope that, when somebody hears one of my songs, they'll want to hear it again.

People don't want to hear the same song 12 times in a row on an album.

I've written about one song on several different albums.

The only time I think I've ever gotten sick of playing Guns and Roses songs really was during - after having played them in Guns and Roses, and then in Snakepit, and then playing 'It's So Easy' and 'Brownstone' in Velvet Revolver.

I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I Should Go to Sleep' that my son loves. We play it on a loop around the house, and he just bounces around.

Any songs that I like, I sort of rinse them out.

I hate it when songwriters go on and on with the same idea.

My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.

'Something More' is a song that I wrote not necessarily about country radio, more so about a lot of songs that were being pitched to me. I wrote that after song after song after song was just the same song, just a different melody, so I was just looking for something more to put on the record.

I know too many musicians that have to tour on the same 10 songs, and they burn out. They get back to their house, and they have no reason to write new music. They are music'd out.