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I can't stand to hear my own voice. If one of my songs comes on in a café, I'll run out right away and come back with the police.
I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.
Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings its own song.
When you go on tour and see everyone, you're like, "Oh my god. This is actually real life." That inspires me to write more songs.
The Beatles. I didn't like the first couple of songs, but when I heard "She Loves You', it was like something went off in my head.
I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.
For some producers who are technical-minded, making the song sound good is easy, and getting the emotion into the song is harder.
You the girl I been lookin' for my whole life God bless me, I'm glad I got the insight Because of you girl, now I understand life
Songs like "Spirit Carries On" really gets the audience moved and on the same page. It's challenging and all so much fun to play.
If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.
I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.
Just because I don't sing about the normal country themes doesn't mean my songs aren't country. I'd rather sing about having fun.
All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differently than one might imagine.
I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?
The greatest motivation to share the gospel w/ someone today & everyday: Another voice around the throne. A louder song for Jesus.
Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
Music gets inside you, music captures you. Music becomes your heartbeat. It’s a drug and makes you feel whatever the song’s about.
I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.
What do you want me to do, To watch for you, To see you through? A box of rain will ease the pain, and love, will see you through.
I like actual songs and bands, but it's usually parts, like the production, the bassline, the drums, that I'm really attracted to.
The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you're born and doesn't stop till you sit down to write a song.
Make songs for Death as you would sing to Love -But you will not assuage him. He aloneOf all the gods will take no gifts from men.
I don't keep up with it all. But Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right? What a way to build a career.
My biggest song in the world is 'Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You.' All over the world, it's number one on the whole planet.
I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me
If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.
The fate of the African continent does not f-ing depend on a load of f-ing musicians in Hyde Park singing f-ing s-t songs to kids.
It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.
I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.
A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that's what bass does for me. I feel like the glue to everything.
For all things turn to barenness In the dim glass the demons hold The glass of outer weariness Made when God slept in times of old
I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.
I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.
Studying James Fauntleroy, I learned it's okay to write a bad song. Just write another one the next day and hope that it's better.
Music is a very personal thing, so if you hear one type of song that you don't like, you pass judgment on whole band's repertoire.
Farewell,' she said. 'I hope you hear many more songs' - which was the best way she could think of to say good-bye to a butterfly.
These girls wouldn't let just anybody spew on their vital parts, they wanted a guy from a group with a big hit song on the charts.
I like sitting in the dark and watching people far more talented than I'll ever be sing my songs and say my words. It's thrilling.
No driving, no sleeping. Live it up like it's the weekend, when the DJ play the right song gonna drink, gonna party all night long
I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song: My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.
'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.
If you don't have to write songs, why write them? I've got enough where I don't really feel the urge to write anything additional.
In the words of the old song, it's a long time from May to December but, you know, it's an equally long time from December to May.
You end up throwing a ton of energy into one or two tracks, and the song that we thought was gonna be the single isn't the single.
All my years to this moment All my roads to this wall. All my words to this silence All my pride to this fall. -Songs of Sapphique
I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want to hear a good song every day.
Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, 'How does it feel?' And that always leads to love songs. It just does.
How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far?
I always sing them as though they are autobiographical, even if they're not, and most of my songs do come from something about me.