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I have a card catalogue in my brain of every lyric of every sappy love song ever written.
When you hear a good traditional gospel song it makes you wanna go buy a three piece suit
The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.
There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.
And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon Little boy blue and the man in the moon.
You’re the missing piece I need The song inside of me I need to find you I gotta find you
Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.
That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs.
We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.
Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident.
There are so many different ways to say "I love you" and to talk about love in the songs.
The songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters.
We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.
It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.
I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.
Blending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging.
And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.
Too many songs, weak rhymes that's mad long. Make it brief son: half short, twice strong!
Once you think you know the song, then you have go and see how other people have done it.
What Ive learned is that music affects the way you feel. A song can change someones life.
It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.
Music is a language in itself and the songs have their own soul, every song has its soul.
Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.
This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.
The song is about asserting yourself and reclaiming your humanity through an act of love.
Writing a song is work. You have to go deep in order to mine the material and dig it out.
When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side."
After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.
It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous.
I hope somebody does this to all my crap demos when I'm dead, making them into hit songs.
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.
A song fluttered down in the form of a dove, And it bore me a message, the one word-Love!
Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?
Like sweet morning dew I took one look at you And it was plain to see You were my destiny
Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.
I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.
His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.
Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.
There are a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too
If I could give you one line about writing worship songs, it would be ‘Sing your prayers.’
Singing live is my favorite. When people sing along to your songs, the circle is complete.
I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
If I start writing a song and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.
In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.
I'm a perfectionist... So to me, if I had my way, a song is never perfect, never finished.
I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin