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  • Author Scott Ian
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    Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.

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  • Author Scott Ian
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    A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been.

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  • Author Washington Irving
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    There is a remembrance of the dead, to which we turn even from the charms of the living. These we would not exchange for the song of pleasure or the bursts of revelry.

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  • Author Alan Jackson
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    I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support that.

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  • Author Alan Jackson
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    I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.

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  • Author Alan Jackson
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    Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.

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  • Author Alan Jackson
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    To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.

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