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Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.
When you sit and write a song, sit and write the best song you can write, just try and write it and be connected.
There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.
I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .
But I think a song that is really emotionally packed, with a great melody that just will soar, that's the keeper.
I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.
The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.
It's not like we did something wrong. We just burned down the church while the choir within sang religious songs.
In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine.
I think I'm just trying to be myself and write songs that are honest. That's what I hear in artist's that I like.
I find the songs that have the most human components in production are the ones that will stand the test of time.
I feel like humans are a disease. It's a hard thing to communicate in a pop song. I mean, who wants to hear that?
A good song gathers the years in. It's why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it's been written.
Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.
A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen
I can't believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer, and get to sing the songs that I sing.
To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate in.
When I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death. And neither one particularly appeals to me.
Nothing makes me happier than writing a song that I think is good or that I want to play. Writing songs helps me.
Everyone likes at least one Elvis song....Me, I love them all. He was, is and will remain the ultimate rock star.
There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.
My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.
I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it.
I soared above the song birds And never heard them sing I lived my life in winter And then you brought the spring
We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.
I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.
I just try and get the best out of an artist - we all have a responsibility to fill the world with awesome songs!
Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
I hope the Canada Pops can play in E and A. I do 'Forty Days' and 'Bo Diddley'. I don't change songs, just bands.
I wanna hear some Diana Ross, I wanna hear some Marvin Gaye. I wanna hear a song that reminds me of a better day.
Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.
I've been collaborating with Ira Schickman on some songs, and there will be many other, great musicians involved.
You're like my favorite song, Nova. The one that I never want to forget. That I want to play over and over again.
The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.
It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.
My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.
That's what music is all about, vibes. That's what makes people react and relate to a song, what makes it soulful.
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.
I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years.
I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.
Life's a dance you learn as you go, sometimes you lead sometimes you follow, don't worry about what you don't know
I seek out songs that I believe in. You have to believe it in your heart first. Then the listener will believe it.
Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.
How can there be too many typefaces in the world? Are there too many songs, too many books, too many places to go?
I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.
No one wants to wait for tracks to buffer or spend hours searching through a Web site to find their favorite song.
I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.
I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all.
I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.