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That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.
I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.
People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher.
I loved musicals because I felt like breaking out in song makes so much sense to me because it's the stakes of how you feel inside!
I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
I like writing stories. That's what I like to do. That's the way I see it, but with every song I get sucked into feeling something.
I only write maybe one or two songs every couple of years that I think are good enough to play alone without other stuff happening.
Where most people looked forward to the weekend to go out and yie one on, my idea of a good time was to figure out a Scorpions song
Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs.
Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't lived that.
I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?
I hope at some point in my career when my name is mentioned, someone will say "Oh yeah he has a good song!" I'd be happy with that.
Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.
Usually a song being hard to write is a sign that the song isn't good enough. It should be like a good kiss. Effortless and smooth.
There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and the songs that must be sung.
Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.
Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.
Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.
I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing to do with you.
Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.
I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.
Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.
Unless you're Barack Obama, you cannot pull off an impromptu a capella rendition of a heart-warming song in the middle of a speech.
I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken and you go shopping.
And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns awayAll shafts of shelterless tumultuous day.
I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.
Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.
I'd like to do an anthology. Maybe a collection of songs set in my world, or based on my world. I think that would be a lot of fun.
Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding.... Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve.
It's hard being the guy that brings in a song, because you're very, you know, it can be something that you get too sensitive about.
I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.
Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.
I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.
As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
What I believe is what I show, if I'm going to write a song about girls I don't want to do it in a way where I'm downgrading a girl.
Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.
I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required.
I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
I used to listen to that song, 'I just wanna be successful!' I was like, 'I'ma be where bruh at.' I used to watch him on 'Degrassi.'
I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'
I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.
Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.
I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired.
Lil Wayne is the best rapper on Earth. Can't nobody touch him. He's the only guy who can put out 300 songs a year and they all fire.
I want to be role model for people to be like, 'I don't need a major label to be a successful artist and to have a successful song.'
The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.
Oh my love, it's you that I dream of Oh my love, since that day Somewhere in my heart I'm always Dancing with you in the summer rain
You've got to stay current and up with the competition. The main thing, though, is finding the greatest songs you can possibly find.
I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part - a lot of jumping from really quiet to really loud.