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I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.
I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs. I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes.
Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.
I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.
Sister Simplicitie! Sing, sing a song to me,-- Sing me to sleep! Some legend low and long, Slow as the summer song Of the dull Deep.
My most favorite entrance music of all time... it's that, "You're my obsession, you're my obsession" song [Animotion's "Obsession"].
And in the mean time my songs will travel, And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them when they have got over the strangeness
I believe in the power of song. Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach, love is close by, and you are not alone!
She don't know how much I need her She don't know I'd fall apart Without her kiss without her touch Without her faithful lovin' arms
You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along.
I usually have a very clear idea of where I want a song to go, sometimes very specific notes, but I'm generally open to suggestions.
Whenever someone wants to say something to a whole mass of people by breaking into song, there's probably something wrong with them.
Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.
Another important time when I feel most alive is when I hear a song that I love so much that all I can do is dance - I feel so free!
I always felt like I could combine good pop songs that are easy for people to like with a real person and a real mind and integrity.
People often ask if I have a favorite song that I've written. And the answer is yes, but it depends on the day and what mood I'm in.
Who rant by note, and through the gamut rage; in songs and airs express their martial fire; combat in trills, and in a fugue expire.
It would be impossible for me to give you a list of the top 10 songs that shake my life. Far more music went in to it than just ten.
It's fun to look backwards and be like, "Oh, this song never really worked live before but now it will sound cool with this lineup."
When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.
Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put it out there in the form of a song.
We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!
I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.
It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.
I'll hear a song I love and suddenly I'm isolated from everything around me just for a nanosecond. That's a moment between a moment.
I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.
I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called 'Starry Room' and then I started turning over a new leaf.
I'm not stuck strictly doing hip-hop. Songs from the dance/electronic scene are my favorite to make and remix, and I like that world.
Sometimes I write from personal experience, but so much depends on what mood I'm in. If I'm in a good mood, I'll write happier songs.
Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.
It sort of depends on the song. Some of them are pretty easy to write, and others take a while. I do a lot of writing in the morning.
Chill air and wintry winds! My ear has grown familiar with your song; I hear it in the opening year, I listen, and it cheers me long.
The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.
Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.
Now some they do and some they don't And some you just can't tell And some they will and some they won't With some it's just as well.
If you were to say to me that you needed a romantic and sentimental song in four hours, I would have that song written in four hours.
If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?
My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there.
I love our industry. I love the song. I love the voice. I love it. Not necessarily my voice. But I care about the song and the voice.
A gush of bird song, a patter of dew A cloud and a rainbow's warning; Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue An April day in the morning!
Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.
Sometimes when you're making songs you just make sounds, and the sounds slowly mutate and evolve into actual words that have meaning.
Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.
In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me.
One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.
'All Over Me' is a song that I really got fired up the first time I heard it: it just really moved and it really had a lot of energy.
One of those Christmas songs says, "You better not shout, you better not cry, you better not pout." How's my wife going to get along?
I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.
The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.