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When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.
I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.
I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.
For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.
I wouldn't want to write a song in a pair of sneakers. I think it would be a horrible song.
Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.
I try not to release songs that I'm not proud of, and even songs that I don't connect with.
There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.
I feel like I always have to have a song on my album that people can use in their weddings.
I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.
Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.
Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.
In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.
The thing for me though, is that songs are good depending on the memories I have with them.
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.
In 2012, I dropped a song called 'Like To Party,' and that just took me all over the world.
When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.
If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!
And hear the pleasant cockoo, loud and long - The simple bird that thinks two notes a song.
Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.
Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?
I don't think people hear my songs and think, "Well this is a way to make a bunch of money."
Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.
Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.
So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.
There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.
John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.
The only song I can sing is “Lady in Red” so that must tell you how great it must have been.
I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.
Music just ain't what it used to; We used to have songs that you could shoplift or boost to.
I don't know if I could write songs if it wasn't for the female race, to be honest with you.
The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years.
Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?
What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.
Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs.
I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.
I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.
There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.
I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.
People can judge me on whatever level they think but I've always tried to make my own songs.
Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.
I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.
Make sure that your song is fun and catchy. Make sure that you enjoy singing, and drink tea.
All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.
A good song can make you smile, or it can make you dance or laugh or remind you of a moment.
Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.