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I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.
I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.
The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives
The Hokey Pokey. Think about it. At the end of the song, what do we learn? What is it all about?... You put your whole self in!
As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.
I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.
If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's a tricky thing to do.
Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.
And I'm the biggest country fan there is, but I'm always a little cautious of a slower song or just a song with subject matter.
All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.
I do not wanna write a song like 'Coathanger' so Andrew Breitbart can rage against me on his web site. It's not my idea of fun.
I think Katy B encapsulates young London in a way I never could. She reps London harder than anyone song-wise since Lily Allen.
It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.
Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.
Pop is like a puzzle: to write a perfect pop song, you never know, and there's so much that can happen in a second with a song.
The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.
I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.
I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.
A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than screaming.
We weren't raised Muslim - we were born Muslim. I didn't go to a Muslim school, but it was just the theme song. It was ambient.
I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.
She's blonde with all the hits. Taylor Swift. She's hot. More than that, she's beyond talented. I have to write a song with her.
While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.
Ohhh, I'm in luv, I'm in luv I'm in luv, I'm in luv wit chu And there ain't nothin nobody can say cuz You're the one for me baby
People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself.
I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
Every Christmas my hometown radio station would always play 'Christmas In Dixie' by Alabama. I always remember lovin' that song.
I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.
I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.
I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.
There's nothing worse than a good video and good song, and you see a band and hate them because they can't perform. That's wack.
This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.
Maybe one day a song might make you feel completely different than the next, but I like to have a lot of everything in my songs.
Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.
I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs.
I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.
As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.
I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about
No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.
I think people just want to hear good songs and I just want to keep getting better as a writer so that I can deliver good songs.
I don't really think of Dire Straits as a sound, you know. It. just depends on the song, and the stuff we're doing is so varied.
If a song or group hits you at the right time in your life, it's everything. It's bigger than school or family or anything else.
I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.
I wake up in the morning and I say 'Ahh! Today's the day for a song! I'm going to write a song today!' And I do. I write a song.
Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.
For my money, insecurity, depression, etc, can be healed by way of El Morocco, sad songs at 4am, and the pop of a champagne cork
The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living, flying free.