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Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.
I can sing in my head and rearrange the tune of a song, note per note. I am a nerd.
I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction.
I'd like to sing songs that are mellower. I don't want to be screaming when I'm 60.
Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.
I don't really listen to the radio too much. I know that one song, "Hotline Bling."
My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
Morning has broken Like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird.
Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.
There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah.
I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.
I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.
Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.
You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.
The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.
A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit.
I remember so vividly the first song I ever wrote. It was called 'Different People.'
I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.
When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.
Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!
Dancing to a great song with great friends and lots of laughter makes me come alive.
My nickname is Dickie Jukebox. I own thousands and thousands and thousands of songs.
Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.
If nobody throws all their rules at you, you might make a song with no introduction.
A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.
The reality is not exactly what the song started out to be, but it's not a bad song.
It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer.
By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart.
I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.
Love is learning the song in someone's heart and singing it to them when they forget.
Once a song comes out, these songs aren't mine. They're everybody's. So there you go.
I don't want to go on tour and have everyone just sitting there waiting for one song.
I just listen to quite random songs; I don't like really particular artists or bands.
If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?
Wherever and whenever God is moving in a new and fresh way, there emerges a new song!
Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.
Billie Jean was a negative dance song, and that was one of the best dance songs ever.
He swift don't win the race. It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth.
People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.
I'm glad I got to introduce myself to America by doing a Britney [Spears] song, haha!
If you're single, then I'm single?" What's that supposed to be? Lyrics to a pop song?
As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself.
Father, may my song today be a sweet sound in Your ears-even if in Yours alone. Amen.
When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.
I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.
If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.
The only thing better than one of my songs is one of my songs with a glass of scotch.
When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.
There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.
All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.