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That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.
I change lyrics to the songs all the time, too. I don't know if it matters in a lot of ways because you can take what you want from it.
Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.
I have pretty much always been about - if I write that song or whatever, it is all for Mercy Me. Anything I want to do is for Mercy Me.
If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain any of the fun that sounded amusing.
I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.
It is a very serious consideration for a lyricist to step in there and suggest the meaning to a song. The music is speaking for itself.
I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.
I think my strength is in shaping a song - you know, making it feel like it reaches its peaks and valleys, and ends when it should end.
I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.
[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that.
The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements.
The simpler songs are just done when the lyric has been stated; the more complex or band-oriented stuff can go in a million directions.
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania.
Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.
I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise.
Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.
People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.
There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.
Music is also one of the great heart openers. Sometimes, you hear the lyrics of a song and you dance, laugh, smile, or perhaps even cry.
Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.
My songs are like kids. I love them all. I encourage them to grow, to reach their full potential, and then send them out into the world.
There's a lot of people I'd love to work with at some point, but I think the song has to be the right thing. It has to be the right fit.
Fun is when you're writing a song and you're trying a rough shot at a demo and... it works. That's when it's fun. After that, it's work.
I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song?
Whether it be a reggae song, rock song, a love song, the main thing was just to, whatever I was feeling, to try to capture that emotion.
A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound.
You're my bread when I'm hungry You're my shelter from troubled winds You're my anchor in life's ocean Most of all You're my best friend
Every week, Dennis Day sang an old Irish folk song. And next day in the fields, I'd be singing that song if I was working in the fields.
I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.
Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. Take advantage of compound interest and don't be captivated by the siren song of the market.
To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.
Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good songs to great songs.
I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a room with a guitar.
Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatles songs..I don't think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be about
I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.
I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like that.
There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?
The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.
I don't believe that raising my voice in song is going to be pleasing to a God who is sitting upstairs somewhere, waiting to be pleased.
Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.
I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.
Feminism... I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.'
People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.
As much as Metallica rocked, they always had these song names... 'The Thing That Shouldn't Be'. 'The Chair That Wasn't There', you know?
When I go to shows, I'm really looking forward to hearing the songs I know. I don't like it when a band tries to expose me to new stuff.
If you play a Nickleback song backwards you'll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you'll hear Nickleback.
There are songs I really enjoy playing. I like playing "Say It" live because it's a long jam, kind of like shoegaze, so I do enjoy that.
I wrote a song at age five about algae on the pond by our house, then the next 'real' song was in fifth grade about an unrequited crush.