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I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.
We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.
I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.
I wasnt thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.
Its a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?
Loving you no more, I just I can't I just can't be loving you no more, I love you more than I love myself
Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.
I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.
Some people think a song without words isn't a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he'll kick your ass!
I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.
Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
Faith without works is like a song you can't sing. It's about as useless as a screen door on a submarine.
Using what you have always enhances what's to come no matter if it's an album, song, artwork or whatever.
When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.
Work is the only meanin' I've ever known. Like the man in the song says, I just gotta keep on keepin' on.
In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.
I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.
A good song stays in your head because it's catchy, a great song stays because it means something to you.
I always meant to convey a message of peace and harmony, and thought I was choosing my songs accordingly.
Nobody wants to experience sad events but people like to listen to sad songs. That's the beauty of music.
I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw.
The chemistry of making the songs is often about being inspired by each other and responding intuitively.
Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities.
I'm still moving around.We're building a platform to put a song out every week for 52 weeks called ADD52.
If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.
I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.
It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.
Once the game begins, I play to that song in my head. I run to rhythm, and that allows my mind to be free.
My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it.
Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.
I get annoyed with movies or books, songs or records that deliberately try to make you feel a certain way.
Lady Gaga will dominate the charts next year. She let me listen to a couple of new songs, she is a legend.
You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.
If you took every pop song to heart, you'd be a bleeding romantic with a crushed heart every five minutes.
The best songs just come unasked for. You don't have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.
I like seeing someone that can sing jazz and then flip over and sing a pop song and then sing a rock song.
I dont ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.
The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.
Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.
Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever have… redemption songs; redemption songs.
I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.
My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.
Troubled times do call for troubled songs, songs that unsettle our souls and our spirits unapologetically.
I have an urban background, but I need melody, I need a song, so I try to mix and match and keep it fluid.
It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.