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When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.
With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.
I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.
Unfortunately I've been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it's difficult to make music, write songs.
Come a little closer, love the way you look tonight My eyes are the only thing I don't wanna take off of you
I'm frozen in time, it's more than just you being a dyme I see the other half of me when I look in your eyes
If you listen to my record, I'm just honest about stupid stuff most normal people wouldn't put in a pop song.
Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.
The snow has quietness in it; no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me.
We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.
I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.
I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.
I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.
Writing a song is a personal thing, and you have to have a lot of trust to try things and not be embarrassed.
Am I the only one who measures time using songs? “Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that’s not to long!
I wanted to protect the songs. I wanted to make sure I could write freely and not be self-conscious about it.
Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.
I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them
The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.
When I was a kid my Dad never let me sing Patsy Cline songs for one simple reason: they've already been done.
The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things?
I've always had levity in my songs, so I like to turn things over, twist them around, and make fun of myself.
My life's far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day.
Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.
I woke up this morning, Smiled at the rising sun, Three little birds, Sat on my doorstep, Singing sweet songs
I would take songs that I'd loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had, the low voice.
I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'
When you write or sing a song that means something to you, you are saying, 'You know what? This is who I am!'
I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.
I achieved something specially different with Love To Love You Baby and I Feel Love. These songs will endure.
No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says.
I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.
I love Miranda Lambert; I think she's wonderful. I love the song 'Love Letters' and 'Famous in a Small Town.'
Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
I think the best music videos are the ones that have nothing to do with the song. Those are all my favorites.
Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.
This is my dream and I'm living it. I've never wanted to do anything else except write songs and perform them
My son youngest son David's favorite song - he plays guitar - and he likes "Devil Pray." That's his favorite.
It [ "Not For Long"] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times.
I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up.
There's just a few people that call themselves stars can actually sit down with a guitar and sing you a song.
I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.
It could be thousands of people or just two, but I can't hide behind anything when I am singing my own songs.
You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.
To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that cant get through the mesh to bite you.
At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Sometimes it's nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.
I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.
Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.