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I like my song-sequences in my movies, but one of the things I like about them, is I get in and I get out.
Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.
I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.
I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.
How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.
If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.
As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.
I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.
Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.
To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.
In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.
Reality is that even if you come out with a really good song, all will go to waste without good promotion.
The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.
Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.
I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough
Everyone knows the power of a song and it takes you back to that place. Just that power of words can heal.
Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.
I love not being in charge of writing all the songs, and being the front person - the whole thing is cool.
I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.
The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.
Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.
I'm fighting for this girl on the battlefield of love Got me look like baby Cupid Sending arrows from above
I don't want to have a song like 'My Humps' and it be sagging down, so I pay attention to that area. A lot.
I said, baby, do you have no shame? She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly, like cows at a passing train.
Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but its good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.
Your new CD is a weed plate, nothin' but love songs, 100% pure garbage, just something to break up buds on.
I don't think Neil Young has a beautiful voice but it's something that grabs you and the songs are so good.
I wish I wrote 'Don't Speak' by No Doubt. I mean, that is a classic heartbreak song; it gets me every time.
It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.
Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
I'm grateful to be alive, because I really did not think I was going to be alive, onstage performing songs.
I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.
I can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I'm learning every day. And that's the fun part.
When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.
You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.
I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.
It's frustrating that people attribute something to certain songs and that's not what they're about at all.
Not even battling but just really known for rapping. Like I had songs up on Soundclick first, take it back.
Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.
It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.
Let your throat-song be clear and strong enough to make an emperor fall full-length suppliant, at the door.
I write songs now I look at my strengths and I start there. In The Walkmen, we'd start with the live stuff.
Dream Song of Thunders: Sometimes I go about pitying Myself, While I am carried by the wind Across the sky.
Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.
Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.
I'm scared of karaoke. I think if I did have a go to karaoke song, it would be 'Whatta Man' by Salt-n-Pepa.