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There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.
I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.
As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.
My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.
I do have a large audience overseas, and I want to continue to be an international artist.
Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.
It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer.
I've spent my whole life trying to find out who I am, so I could express that through the music.
Then come and as we lay, beside this sleepy glade, there I will sing to you my Longfellow serenade.
I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.
I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very ... high maintenance.
Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.
Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.
I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.
I was always interested in science, and pre-med was arespectable thing to do while I ursued my songwriting.
I got worries by the ton, getting cancer's only one. Over taxed and alimonied, tired of eating fried baloney.
I don't pamper my voice. It's part of my body. If my body is rested and healthy, my voice is rested and healthy.
Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.
Maybe tonight, maybe tonight by the fire all alone you and I. Nothing around but the sound of heart and your sighs.
Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.
You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.
Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.
I definitely don't feel like I'm 71. I feel like I did when I was - between 30 and 40. The body ages. The mind doesn't.
As I said before, stones to me is meant things that hurt people, things that cause pain and thats what this song is about.
I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day.
While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.
I Am... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.
You like to think that it's something you created, but secretly you know that you had some kind of help, or somebody gave this to you.
Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.
The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.
If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.
I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.
I have a lot of confidence, but little Self-Esteem. This has given me a tremendous creative spark because it forced me to keep proving myself.
When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change writer, I'm a songwriter.
Money talks, but it don't sing and dance, and it don't walk. And long as I can have you here with me, I'd much rather be, forever in blue jeans.
Crackling Rosie make me smile. God, if it lasts for an hour that's alright, to set the world right. Find us a dream that don't ask no questions.
I communicate with fans on Twitter. I enjoy the ability to impulsively write something and ship it out to the fans and fellow tweeters out there.
Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.
All my songs are based on melody, which is retrieved from my Jewish heritage. Melody will always exist no matter what the rhythmic changes there are.
I like having a woman. I like having someone to come home to, to make all of the hard work feel worth it. I need someone with me. And I want someone.
Of all the songs that I've written since I was 15 or 16, every song is different every song is special, it happens in a different way and I like that.
I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword.
I get good vibes from people. There is a thread of DNA that runs from the days that I was a young teenager to these days. It feels good to go back there.
I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place.
September morn Do you remember how we danced that night away Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play September morning still can make me feel this way.
Well, I Am... I Said was a very difficult song, very difficult because I really had to spend a lot of time thinking about what I was before the song was written.
I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.
The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.
The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.
Each acoustic guitar has its own character and personality. On a particular day, I might pick one up and start noodling around, looking for some emotional content in the chords.