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Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?
When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.
It's the coolest feeling signing your record. And it's great when people come to your shows and know the words to the new songs.
Janis Joplin didn't just sing a song, she took it over. She swallowed it whole, then sent it back through her gut and her heart.
A man with a dream of pleasure can go forth and conquer a crowd and three. With a new song's measure can trample a kingdom down.
Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.
There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.
I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.
Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so.
'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'.
Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was song.
The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation. So make your words count.
Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.
As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.
I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.
I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.
There's always this weird dark humor within a lot of Depeche Mode songs that people miss, tongue-in-cheek and also very British.
When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.
What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?
I Am... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.
You can change your emotion immediately .. by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience.
Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.
I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.
You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.
I rode an elevator with a guy who was whistling the tune of 'this is the song that never ends'. Putting that on me? Come on dude.
I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.
My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs.
Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light.
I had to take a bit of a break and fast for a while, but then I found myself very, very hungry when I got back to [song-writing].
Going on tour, you don't have a lot of time to mull things over. You're just kind of, "Another beer, another show, another song."
All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.
I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it.
Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father.
As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.
I relate to all of my songs and I'm inspired by everything going on around me. Music comes from all different aspects of my life.
I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won't change that much.
I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust.'
I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.
Be merry all, be merry all, With holly dress the festive hall; Prepare the song, the feast, the ball, To welcome merry Christmas.
I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.
The music of 'Damadamm!' will be released by my company, HR Musik, and you will find a completely different Himesh in every song.
What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.
To just write one song to then go and play huge festivals all around the world it's exciting and it's never really been the case.
The only 'anti-fascist' song that makes any sense to me is the Beatles' 'Love Is All You Need', because, quite simply, it's true.
In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.
I like the idea that a song can be something that you can lean on, both for the songwriter and for the person who hears the song.
My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.
I think pop music was going through a phase where it was like pop but dance-hall or pop but R&B. But, no, I just want a pop song.
Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.