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When your target is too far away from you, continue walking singing the song you like.
If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.
Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.
I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.
To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.
When this song come on, I'm spending money...Play something I can spend some money to.
If my life were a song, what would it be? 'A Never Ending Road of Musical Good Times'.
I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk.
I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.
Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.
I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.
From the engineer to the producer, all of these roles are critical to creating a song.
Just when I thought it couldnt get no hotter I fell in love with the farmer's daughter
I make a living with a song, and I feel honored to do something I love and believe in.
I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.
The song is about love, life, fear and hope... and more than anything, you... and me...
People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes.
Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.
With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.
The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.
I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.
I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.
Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.
I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?
Other people's songs can inspire me, though - I always have music on when I'm painting.
Rappers shouldn't have to file taxes because they itemize everything they own in songs.
This film [the Cell] certainly is not meant for the girls who sing along with my songs.
I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.
The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.
If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true.
Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!
If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
The songs that you work and work and work on sometimes are just forced and not as good.
There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter.
I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.
I like albums that knit together, where the songs relate to one another and intertwine.
What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.
I don't want to sing boring pop songs - I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.
When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.
I adhere to the philosophy, "I don't care who writes the laws, let me write the songs."
The easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of her, is to write a song about her.
I don't want to put out a CD of album songs. I'm gunning for every song to be a single.
Baby it's you. You're the one I love. You're the one I need. You're the only one I see.
It's such a cycle. You'll see a rapper drop a song, and next thing you know, he's gone.
We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids.
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?