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Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram.
Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it to warm up a lot.
Whenever I have a bunch of tunes written, I always find a kind of uniform that accompanies the songs.
Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.
If you thought Stairway to Heaven was a long song, dear god you should listen to it played on a lute.
When I find myself having that much trouble with a song or a character or a story, I tend to move on.
The first song I wrote was called 'You,' and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist.
Some of my favorite songs--and I don't know if this is the right terminology--are white-boy classics.
It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.
I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.
You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.
And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.
I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.
I am sure as I grow older I will understand more about my own feelings and how to put them in a song.
Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.
For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."
I like messing up the song, doing some improvisation. And I like running around the room with the mic.
When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
She's got a way about her, And everywhere she goes, a million dreams of love surround her, everywhere.
There are many Broadway songs that apply to moments on 'Mad Men,' and I sing them on set all the time.
If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
After a long day of trying, to make my songs pay, making love all day against the wall in the hallway.
I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song.
I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.
I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.
I've written good love songs when I have been in love and I've written good love songs when I haven't.
And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.
I had never in my wildest dreams imagined that I would actually be singing on a top 10 Billboard song.
I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way.
Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.
I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.
I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.
When you sing a song the way I sing it, you have to use your whole body. It's almost like working out.
This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her.
Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
I know there's nothing that I wouldn't do Go to the ends of the earth for you To make you feel my love
The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.
Friday' is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in that song.
WFMU is so experimental that you can go hours without hearing something that resembles an actual song.
I had more of a vocal range. If you wanted to play a keyboard song, like "Love Walks In," I can do it.
And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.
There's political content in almost every song we've ever written on some level. It colors everything.
I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.
If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers.
The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.
I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played
I kind of like polishing the songs that I'm working on. I'm really working hard on some specific songs.
I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.
I like The Smiths - I would love to do a song with The Smiths, because they are so sonically different.