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Sometimes I was in a mood to write a song as if I was writing in my journal and reveal certain parts of me that I was ready to reveal.
Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you.
Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, "Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long."
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.
I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.
Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mix down.
In spring more mortal singers than belong To any one place cover us with song. Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng.
When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.
If I had to associate myself with one song, it would probably be Let Love Rule. It's so simple and to the point. It speaks for itself.
They [The Beatles ] were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs before that.
I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.
We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.
People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.
How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.
I bring my past I bring my future I bring my rights and I bring my song I stand atop the Hacienda and shout We belong Here. We belong.
You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers.
I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls, or anything.
Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins.
Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.
I think artists are entitled to their songs. I'm very vocal and I understand that not everybody's gonna like me; it's not for everyone.
When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland.Songs about being young again.I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them.
Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own.
I love Wilco's "I'm the Man Who Loves You." Nels Cline has that weird guitar slide at the beginning and the song is whispered actually.
I was essentially trained by Oscar Hammerstein to think of songs as one-act plays, to move a song from point A to point B dramatically.
All comics want to be musicians. There's a part of me that wants to be a serious musician. I love songs about heartache and heartbreak.
There is no passion that is not finely expressed in those parts of the inspired writings which are proper for divine songs and anthems.
I knew when I wrote the line “light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson” [from the song “Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big star.
I have a song called 'Young Voorhees,' because I like to call myself the new Jason Voorhees, and it samples 'Courage the Cowardly Dog.'
I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.
You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.
I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically.
As a kid, I was obsessed with the Who. They were the most important band to me. Songs like "I'm One" helped me get through high school.
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
And though you want to last forever, You know you never will, You know you never will, And the good-bye makes the journey harder still.
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'
She put a wedge beside my heart And then she brought the mallet down She sang no song to guide her work I lost my heart without a sound
Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal. I've just gotten sidetracked.
So my reaction to hearing this corny-ass, horrible song ["With Arms Wide Open" by Creed] is violent, uncontrollable, sustained weeping.
If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to them with music.
I'm really happy about American Woman, it brought the Guess Who back. They started gigging again and got their song out on commercials.
'Mi Gente' is a song that embodies a special moment in music - a new sound of a Latino culture on the rise and being embraced globally.
Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well.
With good music, yes, we can bring people together because a good song will touch your soul no matter what and where it is coming from.
It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.
I'd say it ["I Can't Drive 55"] has probably been the most successful song I've ever been involved with, including any Van Halen songs.
I'm mainstream, and I have pretty chart-tastic tastes. I don't often veer away from a big melodic song with big words for big stadiums.
There's so much talk about the Drug Generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.