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When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world.
Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.
Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.
I always prefer to write songs about emotional situations and heartbreak because I like getting into the character.
Song of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.
Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.
Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.
The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, "This is the kind of story we're telling."
If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence. To break the endless song.
There's a lot of rage you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Something we do every tour is to choose a song for the team CD that gets played in the dressing room prior to games.
Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.
When you're in a band and write a song on your own, it isn't fully realized until it goes into somebody else's ears.
Rich kids who write songs about food stamps always piss me off. I'm not going to write any songs about that, either.
The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
If people had good albums, they'd be buying albums. But people are buying singles because they only have good songs.
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
you shall tie the marriage knot with the ropemaker's daughter and the cawing of the crows will be your wedding song.
Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into any conversation.
When you hear the first five seconds to a song and you've pretty much heard the whole song, that's kind of a bummer.
I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.
Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.
I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine.
The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music.
I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.
You really do kind of learn a lot about a person when you watch and listen to the songs that mean something to them.
Im thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still have to remember that.
Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.
I wrote my first song when I was seven and that was kind of country. Now I'm just like 'No! Why did I play country?'
The fact that I have a lot of songs written doesn't keep me from wanting to write new ones, or new ones from coming.
I often think it's unfair to the listener and "too easy" to just choose one tempo while I make and decide the songs.
When Frank Zappa would get an idea for a song, he just did it. He didn't wait for anybody or expect anyone to do it.
If you hear a song and all you want to do is open the window and drive to the beach it's a good song for the summer.
With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.
The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow.
My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.
A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.
A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.
I believe truly that Satan cannot endure it and so slips out of the room - more or less - when there is a true song.
Among the songs I love best were those that I see as historically important, and helped change and develop my taste.
You're either recording a hit song or you're not; you've either got something that's worth recording or you haven't.
I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone forever.
Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see Bluebirds Singing a song Nothing but bluebirds All day long
There is something in the spirit of song...that fires the soul in a way that it can't otherwise be touched or fired.
The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.
My daughter, Charlotte Strawbridge, has recorded an album, and my favourite song from that is 'Empires Made Of Sand.'
I respect the Stones but their songs are a pile of crap. As for U2, they don’t say a lot or seem like normal persons.