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The best songs don't get recorded; the best recordings don't get released; and the best releases don't get played.
Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.
I just imagine that every song in and of itself is great, but when you add them all up, it's too much of me maybe.
I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.
You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
It's not set in stone. I like to keep it rolling and changing, and so I am like, "Great, I get to remake my song."
Glen Campbell told me, 'Stay out of the way of a good song.' I think it's true. If a song's good, don't overdo it.
When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.
A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.
Music is what feelings sound like out loud. I sing songs that speak from my heart. They tell my story, how I feel.
Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven.
Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.
So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.
Grace Kelly writes great songs, sings beautifully, is a world class saxophonist, and is going to be a big big star
All things die not: while the soul lives, love lives: the song may be now gay, now plaintive, but it is deathless.
What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.
Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.
Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own special charm.
The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long.
I basically just write stream of consciousness to a certain extent. I let the song kind of go where it wants to go.
Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.
I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.
There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.
The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.
There is plenty of people I'd love to collaborate with, would love to produce with, would love to write songs with.
That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even rap.
It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff; a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.
I've never liked songs that are about writing, or struggling to write. Maybe it's because it's too relatable to me.
Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
I've been cataloguing samples for years, I have this massive library. Songs come out everyday so it's never ending.
I don't have to have my tits out to try to sell some kind of record. I can just be me and give songs that I'm into.
Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.
A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called 'True Friend'.
If someone says something good or bad, or whatever they have to say about your song, you've just got to embrace it.
A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.
I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.
I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.
There's no way to learn how to write a hit song. There's no formula for it. You just have to have it inside of you.
I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
I played the coronet first, and then I upgraded to the trumpet. First song I learned on there was 'Hot Cross Buns.'
I feel like I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and art, so for every song I can see a different kind of video.
There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.
But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
The thing about this band is that every member of the band is a song-writer so that takes some of the pressure off.
You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.
I don't really have a ritual. On the car rides over to the racetrack, I just make sure that the right songs are on.
Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.
I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me.
Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive.