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Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.
I have used that song ["50ft Queenie"] and I'm a big PJ Harvey fan. I think she's fantastic.
You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.
It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.
Music is the embodiment of my soul. When I play, I'm not performing a song: I'm becoming it.
I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.
When you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist
Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women
I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.
I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
I am really obsessed with finding melodies that just hypnotize you and sink you into a song.
I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.
When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart.
You won't hear any more alcohol songs from Snoop Dogg - unless I stumble upon some Hennessy.
I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.
You definitely get more of a band feel to a song if you've been playing a song live a bunch.
This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright.
You're the cutest thing that I ever did see I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree
Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.
I'm a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song.
I'm a minimalist at heart. If a song doesn't need a solo, I'm not going to force one into it.
He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.
Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.
This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.
A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.
Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions.
Parents should not let kids listen to my music if it's offensive. I wrote these songs for me.
What's the last thing a drummer says in a band? 'Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?'
And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.
There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.
I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.
I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.
I have a song called 'Waffles Are Better Than Pancakes.' If I can't be goofy, I'll go insane.
I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.
Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.
I can sit and dissect for hours, and then write 50 songs about. I always find that inspiring.
I was never just a 'fill in 16 bars on a beat' rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.
Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.
But anyway I think you're bionic And I don't think you're beautiful, I think you're beyond it
Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice
I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math.
Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.
The judges say, make it your own, so I just remixed a song if I felt like the piece needed it
The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.
Doing a scene truthfully is very similar to doing a song truthfully. They're really parallel.
I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write.
When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
Normally the meaning of the songs, if there is any, occurs to me after I've written the song.