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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.
I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.
People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.
I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.
I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think they like.
I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.
I saw you dancing out the ocean Running fast along the sand A spirit born of earth and water Fire flying from your hands
The only thing that would make her jealous would be if I led a parade riding a unicorn while ballerinas sang love songs.
I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.
Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.
'Feel Special' is the song that we all cherish, and we thought the song's lyrics are words that everyone needed to hear.
Happy days are here again, The skies above are clear again: Let us sing a song of cheer again, Happy days are here again!
No matter what walk of life you're from, you can appreciate the music - songs [can] resonate in your soul and your heart.
There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.
The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.
We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.
Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.
Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'
'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
Don't want to hear my favorite rapper doin' a love song. If I want to hear something soft, I'll throw on Luther Vandross.
In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
I'd love to do something with Bruno Mars because I love his voice and the playful and intelligent way he delivers a song.
In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs.
American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.
Jack White has just done a song for Coca-Cola. End of. He ceases to be in the club. And he looks like Zorro on doughnuts.
I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.
Knowledge is still power -- but today you've got to make sure you know more about your listener than their favorite song.
Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.
I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young..." I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?
People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.
The song How do you like me now? By Toby Keith will be my personal theme song when I attend my first high school reunion.
Bittersweet is kind of my own favourite style because I want to be able to cry to the same song that I also can laugh to.
I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.
Luckily, there's enough people who have recorded songs that I can just go online and kind of figure out how to play them.
You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react.
I said to [Lionel] Richie, "Man, my wife says you must really respect women because you write such beautiful love songs."
One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
But Mike was like a Bjork song-all happy and giddy and fun on the surface, but bubbling with turmoil and pain underneath.
All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that rivals that.
I always loved Alan Menken songs and wanted my first album to be a tribute to him and his work. I always loved his music.
I didn’t write that song to try and win you over, or to steal you away from him. I wrote it because I knew I never could.
I'm one of the people who will hear a song in a taxi and be like, stop, stop the car. Like, let's go back. What was that?
We just wanted to make albums where every song stands out and is different. It must not be the same track from one to 12.
I like listening to the whole song. Like my father says, "If you can't pick the whole song, then why are you playing it?"
Now don't laugh 'cause I just might be...the soft curve in your hardline. (from the song "Hardliners" by Holcombe Waller)
It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.