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Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.
When it's a pop song, I don't really want to do pop songs, but they exist and sort of come out by accident.
One song I do is 'The First Cut is the Deepest.' I try to remind people I wrote that song, not Rod Stewart.
Music has changed. You can just throw songs out on iTunes song by song; you don't have to do a whole album.
When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.
I love to sing, and I've recorded a few covers and originals with friends, but I haven't written any songs.
A patriotic song is an emotion and you must not embarrass an audience with it, or they will hate your guts.
I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage
I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
I would always sing it (Take Me Out To The Ballgame) because I think it's the only song I knew the words to.
I hate re-recording. I like singing, but I don't like recording a song over and over, making it too perfect.
I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.
I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.
Every song is something that I've been through or an emotion I've felt - like falling in love or heartbreak.
The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.
People have so much going on in their heads. I'm like, If you could write a song, you'd feel so much better!
The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat - Understand Me. I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
It can get boring. Not the playing the songs necessarily, or doing the clothes. You know, you need stimulus.
Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.
I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.
We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.
His goodness stands approved,Unchanged from day to day;I'll drop my burden at His feet,And bear a song away.
on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.
I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.
I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it.
I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.
You are always growing, so maybe the way that you bring the songs forward and translate them is more mature.
Got a light skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson, Got a dark skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson.
I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.
I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.
I throw down a lot on paper and on tape. Sometimes while I'm practicing on the guitar, I'll think of a song.
Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.
I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.
The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.
Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.
It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame, when he came, in the game, he made his own name
So I guess I'm a fool, I'm a fool in love. But I'm willing to stay here, and bask in the glory of his heart.
If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.
Love is the song of the soul singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets - sun and moon lit
I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back.
and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song
If Jennifer Lopez could write songs like Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to spend so many hours at the gym.
We wrote a song, while sitting on a trampoline & we loved it so much that we ended up recording it as a duet
People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But I've got 10 gold records.
I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.