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It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.
One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.
The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
We already had all the songs, and it turns out all you have to do is burn them to some CDs, so why not?
It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.
My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid.
I find I always throw limbs here and there in my lyrics. I kind of put my physical self into the songs.
I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.
Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.
I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.
Every time I tried to tell you the words just came out wrong, so I'll have to say I love you in a song.
My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.
My children have become popular, and they show a tremendous love for the public. They're professionals.
'Friday' is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in that song.
I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton.
Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like a fluke.
Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum.
He's written some great songs. I thought that "Blues Man" was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.
I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.
Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?
Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody's heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song.
My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.
I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.
Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.
A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!
Ah, to be a bird. To fly the skies, sing my song, and best of all occasionally peck someone's eyes out.
I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
There are so many songs I've recorded, only to hear other people singing them. It happens all the time.
I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.
Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
I want to write a song for someone who has just fallen in love or someone single and living their live.
But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.
It's in the films and songs and all your magazines. It's everywhere that you may go, the devil's radio.
He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.
This song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'We hate you, please die.'
I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song.
I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.
I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.
Home in bed listening to the rain getting ready to order a pizza. Sounds like a song til the last part.
When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages.
Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones.
By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending.
I want people to get out of that nasty habit of needing a label. Every genre for each song is different.
If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life.
I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.