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I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.
I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar.
It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul.
Longer is not my best song, it's just a classic love song, and every songwriter always dreams of writing a classic love song.
There are so many great songwriters that I love and respect, it's an honor to get the opportunity to sing any of their songs.
I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.
Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. More people should do it.
If I were to die tomorrow, I think they'd say Newman 56, composer of the hit song, Short People. Jumped off a mountain today.
I think the melody is the first time I hear in a song and if I like the melody, then I'll pay closer attention to the lyrics.
I'd love to work with Tweet. She's my favorite singer, and I'd love to do a song with her even though she's out of my league.
I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.
Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.
Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here.
I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.
Our Feast gatherings, which has spread all over the world, is attended by young people - and they love to sing worship songs.
The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.
Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I'm a real touchstone of history.
When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.
People tell me all the time that my songs help them express things to loved ones that they may not be able to say themselves.
Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
The friends that have it I do wrong Whenever I remake a song, Should know what issue is at stake: It is myself that I remake.
If you're writing a song about a relationship ending, what you're really doing is honoring how much that person meant to you.
The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not just a plain joke.
I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. You know like you're kind of just messing around with people's memories of songs.
I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.
If you want to put out a song that you wrote yesterday tomorrow, go on Twitter, type in a new URL, and give it to the people!
Make it simple to last your whole life long. Don't worry that it's not enough for anyone else to hear. Just sing, sing a song
The first song I sent over was Up All Night. People say that sounds like Angels on a Blink record. Well, no - that's just me!
U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.
You're not supposed to totally know what's happening. The songs are supposed to give you clues so you can fill in the blanks.
I don't know if any genuine meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.
If I hear a song that I love - how is the groove and how is the beat and what is the feeling of this? - I can make it my own.
A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after.
I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct.
It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.
The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.
I usually write songs when I'm in a car by myself and it's usually dangerous because I'm writin' and drivin' at the same time.
'Kamariya' is a wonderfully composed song. The concept for the video is so fresh, and it's unlike anything I have done before.
I don't like my music. I'll make a song, and if I do like it, I'll feel it, but after that 10th play, I don't like it no more.
We would turn everything into songs in those days...A lot of people think "Alice's Restaurant" was an anti-war song. It's not.
Some days it don't come easy Some days it don't come hard Some days it don't come at all And these are the days that never end
I was in a movie with Angelina Jolie called 'Life Or Something Like It' where I played her fiance, and I have a song in there.
I hate it when people say that they don't like 'MMMBop.' Everyone likes 'MMMBop.' Whether they like it or not, the song rocks.
I don't know if any genuine, meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.
We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.
My songs is hard stuff which politicians don't want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.
You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.
It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it