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I loved that song ["Don't Tell Me"], but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for Van Halen.
As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.
The song Some Other Time is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.
The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs.
It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.
I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.
So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.
When you find great songs, and somehow you get a spark in a little way, it can become brand new.
Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.
I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!
My dad wrote a song about the people in the slides. I started playing harmonica. I was only six.
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.
I think when you are doing a song you're trying to give people enough details that they connect.
Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.
Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.
I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.
I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.
Sometimes an unexpected chord change can be the difference between a good song and a great song.
The air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song.
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
I like to let the songs speak so that they can go through some kind of rebirth as you play them.
I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me
Even when I write a song, lots of times I think - I wonder what my dad would think of this song.
Like our title song “Clap”, I want to become a singer that receive the applause from all people.
There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.
I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.
I seldom speak on songs, as in when people ask me for fave songs. I really have only fave parts.
I like listening to Beyonce, and I like Jason Derulo. I love his new song 'Don't Wanna Go Home.'
I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.
I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing.
Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
As a songwriter, your songs are, in a way, like your children - you want them to be appreciated.
Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.
We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.
I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
I've been on the songs of all these rappers that put out an album, and my music is still better.
I was a young troubadour when I rode in on a song. And, I'll be an old troubadour when I'm gone.
I don't know any songs. People have asked me to play a song, and I say, "I don't know anything."
The Motion Picture Association of America wipes the sweat off its brow and sings the PG-13 song.
We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.
This is a song called 'The Kill.' But don't be scared, it's a nice song. About losing your mind.
I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song.