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If I didn't make a single song in two months, I'm slippin'. You can't just party every night.
The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.
Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.
Here's a little song I wrote. You might want to sing it note for note. Don't worry, be happy.
A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.
DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more.
Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances
Just because I write in the first person doesn't mean that all my songs are autobiographical.
Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life.
No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.
The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.
When you tell a story and connect with somebody through an emotion that's why they like songs.
All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.
Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they? Think not of them; thou has thy music too.
When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.
One can find a Punjabi song in all genres. I, as a singer, too, aim to sing all kind of songs.
The production process has a great way of bringing songs to light and that's a big part of it.
If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
I enjoy making music alone, and I like keeping my options open for how I release my own songs.
There are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.
My songs are like a three-legged dog - you have to get to know them to have any love for them.
I played a little bit of everything. I got Ace of Bass, hip-hop songs, and dance hall [music].
Said the condor to the preying mantis, we're gonna lose this place just like we lost Atlantis.
I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.
I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.
When the song is part of the action and working as dialogue, even two minutes is way too long.
Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.
When your songs are like your babies, even the one that you know aren't great, you still love.
I just make the music, and people have the say. When I'm making songs, I never call them hits.
I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there
I just being able to write songs I'm proud of and finding some women to play with is exciting.
If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.
In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.
I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.
With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.
Broadway is not just the song and the shows; it's the individual performers and the community.
I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.
I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.
I am a true believer that a record should not be a bunch of songs that sound exactly the same.
I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
It costs $2,500 to purchase a song and I know from experience that I like to score with songs.
There's this cliché of always falling in love with the latest song, and I'm kind of like that.
I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.