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All the hills and vales along Earth is bursting into song, And the singers are the chaps Who are going to die perhaps.
I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.
We're not the kind of band who writes an order abundance of songs and picks from them, we usually write for the album.
Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.
My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.
It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.
You get committed with what you put in songs. It made me wary of who and what I include, because that's there forever.
My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.
Dream Song: As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village.
Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.
This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.
If singing a couple of songs in a benefit will help keep the Festival alive and known, well, how can I say no to that?
I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.
I instinctively want to create pop songs and I think it's really good to challenge that, otherwise it becomes a habit.
You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.
As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.
Every man needs his Siren to check his courage and strength when he hears her song in his travels through the unknown.
The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.
I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.
Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.
Dan Harmon has this idea that characters on TV are allowed to talk about their favorite movies and TV shows and songs.
My songs are my hookers. I can't worry about how they are going to be treated; they just need to bring home the bacon.
Nothing is ever finished. It's a funny thing. I actually think that's really the more natural way of stories or songs.
No matter what you do for a living you should get paid for your work, whether you're washing dishes or recording songs.
All the songs on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot are the encapsulation of heterosexual love. I have different records for gay sex.
If you will show me the songs which a people or a community sing, then I will tell you the character of that community.
I feel like the songs that I write are best when they are performed by an ensemble, rather than by one solo instrument.
I know a lot of artists say, `If you want your song on my record, I get 50 per cent' I'd like to kick them in the face.
[Kino] worked really well as a song title, and to build into a lyric, and also how we embraced mulit-media at the time.
I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are.
And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.
In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
Now I know I understand that it was Sgt. Pepper's Band, that put the sixties into song, where have all the heroes gone?
The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
I still like to keep all the love songs for the Grobanites, I like to make sure that they know those are just for them.
I just feel such freedom to do whatever. If a song's seven minutes or ten minutes long, then so be it - it's that long.
Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.
I feel like the theme song to 'Duck Tales.' 'Life is like a hurricane; it's a duck blur.' That's absolutely what it is.
I hear this song and I think, Man, this is ... great. This is the best I ever heard this. I forget I'm the one singing.
If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.
Pity it is we drowse too soon Pity it is we fall asleep Ere our song encompass the height Ere our hand inherit the deep
I can't sing a love song Like the way it's meant to be Well, I guess I'm not that good anymore But baby, that's just me
[Miley Cyrus] got a fantastic voice. I do think she's a fantastic artist and does great songs. I wish her all the best.
I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.
I sold my soul to the devil in L.A. He said 'sign your name here on the dotted line and your songs they all will play.'
The piano song that I do in the movie [The Hangover], it's a great example, that was never - that wasn't in the script.
People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.
I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
My songs are very much a kind of psychoanalysis. I am very introspective in my songs, and I am working through, always.
Lots of people say it's the song. For me, it's not always the song - there's something bigger: the spirit of an artist.