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That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech.
New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York.
'Aura' is a song where you're looking at yourself in the mirror, and I was personally impacted when I recorded it. I identified with it.
I find it difficult to fully enjoy musical theatre songs if I don't know the storyline of the show they are from as well as the context.
Every girl wants songs written about her. Even the most hardened tattoo-covered punk rock girl would love a nice ballad written for her.
Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.
I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. It may be easier to put out a fake jazz album, as Sting does from time to time.
The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose as possible.
I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing songs.
Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.
They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!
I knew the Beatles songs and how influential they are to other bands, but I'm not a fanatic, so I could look outside the box and observe.
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.
Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.
Without an audience, all your dreams will not come true at all, because you need an audience to write new songs and continue to do music.
But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.
I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.
I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do the music and if people like it, they like it.
I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years from now.
Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change the melodies a bit.
While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another one equally well known.
As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.
I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.
I got started when I was about 15, or 16. My first break through was the Vans song with my group The Pack. That became a worldwide thing.
The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.
I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.
The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.
While "9 Songs" is sexually explicit in the basic sense, its directness is what's most fascinating, and ultimately most moving, about it.
The thing is, my life is a country song. I don't need to be manufactured, and I don't need anyone to tell me what to say or what to sing.
I never made promises lightly There may have been some that I've broken But I swear in the days still left We will walk in fields of gold
I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.
Selena recorded a song I had written and she left my parts in on the middle eight so it ended up being Selena Gomez featuring Pixie Lott.
Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.
Songs Like Mony Mony aren't really written, they're sort of hanging in space - waiting to be found - I'm just thankful we found this one.
It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.
I think I opened up an area with Astral Weeks that hit a lot of peoples' nerves. But you can't really say that they're my favorite songs.
Everyone is here on earth as an artist; to tell his particular story or sing her irreplaceable song; to leave a unique creative signature.
From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.
Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean I write poems in these songs.
Things that Never Cross a Mans Mind is probably one of my favorite upbeat tempo songs because it is just a sassy song, and its a fun song.
I love most 70's song writers, not so much outlaw, but really those 70's guys. I'm a big fan of Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, those guys.
My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop.
The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.