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I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.
I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves of my many woodland friends.
A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to the lyrics.
I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.
I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have.
I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.
I don't really know where the songs are coming from often. Many of the best things I made up were just off the top of my head.
I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say.
You wind up listening to one song that you really like 30 times on YouTube and then you're done with it. That's the way it is.
I've always been the high harmony singer. It's never my job to know the verses! But I know the chorus of every song ever made.
I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words.
If anything, I don't have any intention of recording music that's just me playing acoustic guitar singing a song anytime soon.
In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.
I'm doing a record that has a story that runs through all of the songs, and then there is also a film that goes along with it.
There's always something extremely personal in the songs, but I may change the point of view from what I actually experienced.
When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music.
The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set up. That went on for years.
I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with other people's songs.
I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart.
People were very passionate and over the top about showing me their love and affection and they memorized my songs in Spanish.
Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars.
Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes.
I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.
Actually doing a song, going to the studio, and just getting out on paper your anger makes you feel a little better sometimes.
It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.
In some ways, when you re-envision a song like that ["Never Be Mine"], there's a completely different energy to it each night.
I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.
I think a lot of that album ["Tonight" ] is still very good . . . the songs, but I think I was indifferent to the arrangements.
I'd like to keep doing film and TV, and I definitely can appreciate a good theme song. If it's memorable, that's a great thing.
I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.
I've always got songs ready to go. It's not a challenge to conjure anything, it's just whether the music I supply is desirable.
I was genuinely happy when I wrote that song [Training Wheels] and very in love. That's a very rare emotion to evoke out of me.
You would think with all the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might find a higher purpose and a better use of mind.
Our dad played us a lot of old country songs by The Carter Family and he would sing along to it. I loved listening to him sing.
I've never sold my publishing. I have 100% control of all of my publishing and that includes everything, every use of my songs.
Watch a movie that makes you laugh or listen to a song that makes you cry. Embrace your emotions and be proud of what you feel.
I tried writing a song and it wasn't very good. I sung it to my mom and she told me it was bad - but I was eight, so it's okay.
And if I die before I wake I pray the lord my soul to take But please don't cry Just know that I have made these songs for you.
My first boyfriend that I ever had, actually sang a song that he wrote for me on-stage to ask me out. That was pretty romantic.
and in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song, not the place, not the other couples around him. Only this, only her.
Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?
A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.
A DJ can't just play one song. It's about playing a set, or how you connect songs in those two hours, and where you place them.
I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king.
I love playing the new songs live. I hate playing a new song and then having to play an old song again, it feels really boring.
A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones..." and that's it.
My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God.