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If all I do in my life is soothe someone's spirit with a song , then let me do that and I'm happy.
The outlet for my sorrow, that I do feel deeply, and the pain, is the songs. That's where it goes.
Sam Phillips responded most to a song of mine called, "Hey Porter," which was on the first record.
I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.
For me, singing was always about the lyrics. I'm hopeless at singing songs that don't have a core.
Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.
You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.
To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.
November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
Normally I don't compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.
Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.
I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.
I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them
It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.
I can write a happy song, but there has to be some sort of twist. Otherwise it feels a bit cheesy.
I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.
I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.
My songs always tend to have a good element to the story. That is who I am - an optimistic person.
Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.
[Charles McPherson] was kind enough to go to a record gig of mine where we recorded a song of his.
I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.
I feel that I have to say something in a song and that it's not just enough to lay down the music.
I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.
Only to the rude ear of one who is quite indifferent does the song of a bird seem always the same.
It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.
When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio.
There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.
I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.
I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.
We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us
They really can't imagine what my voice is like. Every time I sing a song, they are very surprised.
A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
I wanted the songs to be themselves, instead of worrying about all this crazy slickster production.
I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful.
Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.
If I'm on a bus and someone makes my blood boil, I'll pocket those emotions and put them in a song.
A great song is something that you go back to in twenty years and it's still so influential to you.
The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.
Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.
Anyone can sit down and write some boring artistic song. Pop music is the hardest [stuff] to write.
Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again.
I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.
The craziest thing is that the song ["My President"] is real but you can still hear it in the club.
Sometimes, I ask myself how any other singer could substitute the inspiration of god in their songs
I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.
I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library.