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I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.
I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?
Raydiation is more mature, reveals more about me personally and focuses on singing and songs that people can relate to.
Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.
Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.
My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people's lives... and hopefully make a living doing it.
I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.
Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!
The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California.
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
When stuff gets hard, and you're feeling real down about everything or in a cark space, a song can bring you out of it.
The original version of 'Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang' was made to a Boz Scaggs song; I can't remember the name of the song.
Among the songs I love best were those that I see as historically important, which help to change and develop my taste.
Moments of unexpected sweetness happen when romance enters, which always happens in songs - if just for a split second.
What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.
I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called Ooh La La, that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music.
If I played just one song from every album, I would be onstage for two and a half hours. No one wants a show that long.
It's important to tell the artist's story. It's their song! And it's always more fun to write together with the artist!
When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.
"Macarena" is a great song. If music is something you can remember - the worst crime music can do is to be forgettable.
Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan.
The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.
My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.
My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that's not my aim.
I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning
I don't sing a song unless I feel it. The song don't tug at my heart, I pass on it. I have to believe in what I'm doing.
Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize.
Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.
What were you going to do tonight?" "I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff." "Who's that?" "A dead Russian.
There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
You tie me up in knots. I want to play you a thousand different songs so you can get a clue of what... I feel inside me.
Any time I write a new song, I am jazzed about it for like 24 hours and then I am over it and want to write another one.
A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning.
When I sing, I try to live the song or live the emotion of the song. The space I'm in doesn't exist. It's another world.
Language from songs and TV shows feel integral because it helps to create the environment and describe the full picture.
I always thought I wrote good bridges. I was a bit more impressed with the bridges I wrote than maybe the songs I wrote.
And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light.
O passing angel, speed me with a song, a melody of heaven to reach my heart and rouse me to the race and make me strong.
They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.
I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer.
In some of the best worship songs we bring our praises to God - yet at the same time also end up preaching to ourselves.
There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.
Most songs come from being attentive. Attentive to life, attentive to scripture, attentive to your heart. Pay attention!
I don't have to say I'm going to make a song. A song is always there. I just have to open my mouth and a song comes out.
If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for that event.
Sometimes a song just has to cater to whatever's goin' on. A well-written song is a song that stays true to the subject.
It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.
I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer.
I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.