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At the start of 2005 the idea of downloading a song to a mobile phone was an idea, by the end of the year it was a reality.
I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding.
I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.
If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.
I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.
The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension.
To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.
I want to express the feelings that everyone has felt at least once in music so i think people will feel/understand my song.
In real life, I'm such a dorky, happy person. I express myself in three ways: I talk a lot, I write songs and I get tattoos.
In the enemy's territory, be as silent as the owl's wings; in friend's territory, be as cheerful as the nightingale's songs.
Songs hold different memories for different people and the great ones are the ones that become a part of you and your story.
Since the whole world is now concerned more about K-pop, I want to make more great songs which can be listed to as classics.
[P]salms are basically prayers and hymns, by their very nature they are addressed to God or express truth about God in song.
I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.'
The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.
If there's a certain song that I want to reach a certain person or certain type of person, that's when I play it for people.
Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.
I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.
Well, there are certainly original things to say. But I'm not sure that a pop song is the appropriate format to say them in.
We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord.
Fly Away changed my life. There are certain songs that do. When I won the Grammy, I was in Paris. I sort of forgot about it.
I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.
Hark, the glad sound! The Saviour comes, The Saviour promised long; Let every heart exult with joy, And every voice be song!
If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.
Generally, I can't really do much without music playing - even writing or thinking. Peace and quiet means putting on a song.
Not all the songs are real events, but I do write about stuff that is close to my heart and it comes out one way or another.
Every day is different and improvised. Sometimes, a song can lead to a completely different adventure. You can't control it.
What's funny for me is that I made a lot of the music I make with intentions of it being a song you listen to, to chill out.
I don't really concentrate on Urban AC or whatever. I don't concentrate on genres or how people section off songs for radio.
The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.
All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.
I don't think anyone can listen to a Smiths song and not scream your lungs out in recognition of what it's like to feel odd.
I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.
I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.
You can only follow what's on your mind. In fact, a song is something you write because you can't sleep unless you write it.
I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.
It always disappoints me when I go to a concert and they don't play my favorite song, or at least one of their biggest hits.
I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.
All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.
some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.
Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.
Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.
I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing about.
Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.
I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.
That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.
I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual