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No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance. -- Fred Schneider
I still love to do the old songs. I know some people don't. -- Bonnie Tyler
I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment. -- John Fogerty
And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs. -- Beau Bridges
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
I've always used Old English in certain songs. -- Erik Rutan
I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old. -- Mose Allison
I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again... -- Charlotte Alington Barnard
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I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old. -- Sondre Lerche
As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs. -- James Weldon Johnson
I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love. -- Rick Springfield
We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs. -- Edgar Winter
I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs. -- Dolly Parton
I don't want to be 35 years old and still popping out songs in miniskirts and la-la-la. -- Holly Valance
My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old. -- Dolly Parton
To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again. -- Ricky Nelson
Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back. -- Jay Michaelson
When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs. -- George Lloyd
I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years. -- Five for Fighting
See, I'm a Pisces, so I get down with love songs. I'm totally into slow jams and old-school R&B, all that. -- Blake Anderson
I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old. -- Justin Townes Earle
I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion. -- Solange Knowles
I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen. -- Patti LaBelle
I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow. -- Charlotte Alington Barnard
When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs. -- Burton Cummings
I can not 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
Most of my songs are about love, I am a 16 year old teenager and I sing about what is on every girls mind. Love -- Selena
I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck at leads. -- Phil Anselmo
I want to give the people a lot more, and be able to perform more than just my one single and all my old songs... -- Juelz Santana
I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding. -- Patrick Stump
I totally agree with equal rights and women's causes, and most of my songs are woman-power, but I don't want to be labelled at 20 years old. -- Meghan Trainor
The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane communication." -- Frances Densmore
My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me. -- Dan Auerbach
I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old. -- Smokey Robinson
I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing. -- Siobhan Fahey
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My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between. -- Tom Chapin
Our dad played us a lot of old country songs by The Carter Family and he would sing along to it. I loved listening to him sing. -- Petra Haden
When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs! -- Tom Wopat
I'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all. I'm still planning to write better songs. -- Paul McCartney
The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
I don't live in the past or focus on making new songs sound like my old stuff; it would be stupid, and I don't think anyone would like it. -- Juicy J
I wanted to do a set of love songs for Valentine's Day so I went through my old material. I found myself scraping around the edges of good taste. -- Tom Rush
I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine. -- Robert Smith
I listen to old songs and remember exactly where I was living and where I recorded it and how I wrote it, the girl I was dating at the time or whatever. -- Granger Smith
Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills or the sea with which I am not familiar. -- Robert E. Howard
The reason I don't play any of the old songs is because I really honor my old band, and I think that those songs are best served within the context of that band. -- Billy Corgan
I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned. -- Toru Takemitsu

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