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I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.
Jason Mraz, and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the earth.
Even when I have someone playing the song I give them the idea. I'm learning. I'm getting better over the years.
No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.
What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.
Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.
Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.
Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music.
I love finding songs, going through them, tearing them apart, and seeing if I can find anything wrong with them.
A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter.
A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of it.
I have decided long ago that my songs and ballads would not get the hugs and kisses of the capitalistic experts.
My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put into the novel.
I'm always writing new songs and doing them live, and I may do it for a week or two, and then never do it again.
Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.
As a member of Guess Who, I think 'No Time' was the best thing we ever did. It was a pivotal song in our career.
I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements.
I am stuck in the dream of an album that sells well not because of marketing, but because people like the songs.
I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.
It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.
I'm aware of my songs. I'm aware of them because they're about true emotions, true feelings, things that matter.
Writing a song is about inhabiting a specific frame of mind and conjuring a mood, a character, an entire vision.
You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you yet.
I either write songs on guitar, or... I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop.
My favorite song to play is 'Smokin'' by Boston. I actually had a chance to play that with the band Boston live.
Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.
I was born or raised in the church, so I guess the first songs I would have played would have been church songs.
You don't necessarily have to write a song to make it your own. After all, Elvis never wrote a song in his life.
It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.
I’ve been trying to find a way for the terror and the beauty to live together in one song. I know it’s possible.
I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.
I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.
Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song.
Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.
I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I'll do three versions of a song, then think, "Is the demo better?"
I performed at Mom and Dad's party when I was four. Oh my gosh, I was singing a Madonna song, and I peed myself!
I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.
With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.
When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue.
Gimme some of that you and me, Some of that way back when, A little bit of wild and free I wanna feel that again
I want to go on tour with the most exciting artists, and I want to make sure that I have songs with all of them.
Some songs seem to achieve the quality of a geometric object - a ball, box, or cone - and I don't mess with 'em.
[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.
I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it.
What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.
Everyone's attention span these days is limited to how long it takes to flick the iPod wheel on to the next song.
The great thing about "Shoot 'Em Up, Baby" is that it's the first song that we went and recorded [with Andy Kim].
When it's time to write a new song, anything that you thought you understood last time is pretty much pulverized.
One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song. No one's ever called me to do that.
Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.