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I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
Looking back, I think I tried to be too eclectic. Sometimes I'd sing thirty songs, and fifteen of them were not in English.
You can begin feeling whatever you want (even if it's not there).. the universe will correspond to the nature of your song.
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it
Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.
Every word that I say, every song that I sing, and literally every move that I make [ in Chicaho musical] has much purpose.
The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.
They say, he must had an angel, cuss look how death missed his ass. Unbreakable, what you thought they'd call me Mr. Glass?
People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!
The best songs are the ones about Georgia, even though I've never been there. It's the only place I still believe in Jesus.
If it is a good song, it is a good song. The Beatles were pop, the beach boys were pop and it's the best music of all time.
I remember Iggy and the Stooges' song 'Search and Destroy' reaching out from my speakers to me like my own personal anthem.
I don't even want a song to ramp up the drama, you know? I want music to be there only when it really enhances the feeling.
Can you dance?" she asked before she could stop herself. "I can," he said, affronted. "I'm really good with the slow songs.
I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'
I think that you should just be yourself and make sure you pick a really, really good song, and make sure you're memorable.
I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours.
You're like the lyrics to my favorite song. You stick with me all day long. And when I reach the end I wanna hear it again.
If you don't like my songs, don't hear it. If you don't like my music videos, don't watch it. If you hate me, I don't care.
Nonbelievers may hear all the notes of science, but without a theistic context and perspective they will not hear the song.
I write a lot of my music, but not all of it. I have always subscribed to the 'best song wins' theory when making an album.
I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.
I base my track-listing and what songs I pick by what my fans expect from me and what they want and what I think they want.
I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.
Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.
Look, I got 11,052 songs on my iPod. Cyndi Lauper, Guns N' Roses, Geto Boys, N.W.A. push shuffle and anything will come on.
That happens quite a lot in Hot Chip - you can let go of something that was originally essential to the creation of a song.
With out each member, SS501 isn't complete. No matter how great the songs are, it wouldn't be the same without each member.
For me songs are born out of the gray space, the things I don't fully understand, the things that I can't put in my pocket.
It's kind of a miracle to think that a device in your pocket can play pretty much any song that the world has ever created.
As far am I'm concerned, I don't listen to radio anymore. They play the same ten songs over and over again, so why would I?
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.
Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.
Life has to be a roller coaster ride. Otherwise, what's the point of living? Why should I make a song and dance about mine?
To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing.
Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in.
I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.
It was [Kanye West] who spoke, and then we met and recorded some songs. After, you know what it is: we all bump like crazy.
When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural.
There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
I always loved those songs. And with my high tenor, I thought I was pretty good - you know? - almost as good as Dennis Day.
Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.
I tend to play covers when I'm gearing up for creating new song. Singing other people's songs is a way that I get inspired.
I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs.
I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.
I recognize that there are some great things about not playing a song live, and just kind of piecing it together as you go.
I always knew 'My Dawg' would be a hit, but I didn't even know what a hit was. When I made the song I knew it sounded hard.
That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for those to come.
The bottom line is, if every single platinum song right now wasn't auto-tuned, then I would be like, "I can't be a rapper."