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Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.
I enjoyed singing, I loved song writing, I loved recording. All those things that involves with creating music was great.
Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.
If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.
There's not a lot of thinking in my music. I freestyle a lot of things and organize it later, and then it becomes a song.
If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.
Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.
I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.
To me there's a definite way of doing a song. If I didn't think that, I wouldn't have done it that way in the first place.
Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.
As I said before, stones to me is meant things that hurt people, things that cause pain and thats what this song is about.
In fact, many musicians are the happiest when the artist and audience re-interpret or re-imagine the content of the songs.
You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.
If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.
A good song should give you a lot of images; you should be able to make your own little movie in your head to a good song.
When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.
The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to be more "me."
Gospel music is so ingrained into my bones. I can't do a concert without singing a gospel song. It's what I was raised on.
There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.
Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and record the song.
I'm not trouble at all. I'm just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I'm like every song on the radio.
I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.
I didn't want to release a song like 'Spice Girl' right after 'Caroline' because I didn't want another 'hit' kind of song.
My form of rebellion was starting to play guitar. I was 13. The first song I played was 'Lovesick Blues' by Hank Williams.
The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang their songs.
I'm able to come and do a new sound and grow even more and make greater songs because my song-making abilities have grown.
Body Electric... It is the first song from my new short film called # Tropico that is coming out in the end of the month.
A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.
There are some songs we do, like "Last Chance," I love it! But sometimes you just don't like your voice on certain things.
I actually have a lot of couples coming & telling me that one of my songs was instrumental in strengthening their romance.
I'm not a very good singer. I just know how to present a song, and honey, I think I've been through enough to do it right.
When we was making a song called 'Bring Da Ruckus,' we took the snare, and we put it in an elevator shaft and recorded it.
I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow.
I really work hard to shape the song so that it's attractive... You don't want to give people the information in an enema.
I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.
In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.
Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.
I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
I sing my song for a living, and I don't really worry about who listens or what they think. But it seems to make a living.
I listen to a lot of music. But I definitely haven't looked at an artist and like thought I want to have a song like this.
I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.
“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors.
I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.
We play some smaller songs larger than they are the record, and vice versa. It took me a while to get used to playing live.
I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.
If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?
There are still artists that do a great job with a song, and they care about the lyrics, and it's not just mindless drivel.
The studio's a collaborative environment. I just try to let people bring their own ideas to the songs and see what happens.
It's easy to get into an easy routine but the problem with that is you can tend to write the same song over and over again.