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A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult.
I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.
Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear, And he shows them pearly white. Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear, And he keeps them out of sight.
There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.
No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.
Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
Storm the castle Stem the tide Rise above yourself Cry baby cry Cry cry to heaven If that doesn't do it for you Go ahead and cry like hell
I lost my virginity to a pumpkin when I was 23. Back then I was convinced I was actually a Vegetable, hell, that's what the song is about.
Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.
It's good having a lot of different songs to choose from to do the show. It means you don't get bored of doing it in one particular genre.
I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.
Rather than recallin these flowersthe fragrance of the past,I would like to hear this nightingale's voice,to know if his song is as sweet.
Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart
Her little ring is a little thing, but its all I could afford Now she's mine, all mine till the day I die, and I never wanted nothin' more
I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.
The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy.
Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!
If you can take it to the next level and really tell an interesting story in a unique and fresh way, then I feel like that's a great song.
A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!
I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.
There's this art form in songwriting that's incredibly difficult - to be really funny in a song and also really touching. I can't do that.
Sometimes, the simple messages are the best thing music can do, really. Sometimes, songs can stir people up, motivate them to make change.
If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.
It's the song in your heart that wants you to help make yourself a better person, and to help other people do the same. Everybody has one.
Even if I know that really it's not a great song, even if it's a naff song but I have a good memory of it, then to me that's a great song.
They're powerful, those songs. At times they've been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.
When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.
Research is always a high priority in my fiction. Songs, fashion, politics, television, movies, trends - I try to get those details right.
It’s a brilliant song! C’mon…’Every day is like survival. You’re my lover, not my rival.’ What could be more meaningful than that? (Jesse)
You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.
It sometimes takes 6 months or more after you've written and recorded it before you can start to enjoy the experience of singing the song.
There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.
Both this song ['Black Skinhead'], 'I Am a God' and this song were made after Hedi Slimane didn't let me into his first Saint Laurent show.
Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough to sing a gospel song?
Really, everything for me comes from "Manifestra." It was an incredible gift of a song; it really describes an important moment in my life.
The quiet, singing voice of the rose. The song that promised all might be well, all might be well, that all manner of things might be well.
I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.
Sing us a song you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we're all in the mood for a melody, And you've got us feeling all right.
In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation... the essence of minstrel.
I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud." (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece)
I'm not particularly worried by any of the songs we've written in the past, except for some of the really early stuff which is total tripe.
No matter where you are or what you're doing, it's always great if you don't have to get up and physically change the song that plays next.
Artists are like messengers. A song is authored by you, but its interpretation is owned by other people. And you have no control over that.
I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.
I think the world likes to pick apart different songs and play doctor with songs sometimes and make them into this big controversial thing.
There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.