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I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.
My two favorite musicals growing up in were 'Annie' and 'Sweeney Todd,' and my best friend and I would sing all the songs when I was a kid.
I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up all in the same moment.
My friend Lou Reed came to the end of his song. So very sad.But hey, Lou, you'll always take a walk on the wild side. Always a perfect day.
I love songs because by nature they are concise; they sum up. I try to use as few words as possible. It's usually funnier that way, anyway.
We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.
I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.
I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.
I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.
I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.
It's the way I like to work for these kinds of songs [like "Peace Trail"]. It was the right time of the month; everything was looking good.
Everything has it's own vibe. Every song has a different place, I guess, of where and when and what was going on and things of that nature.
To me 'Varayo' is a special song, not just because it has given me seven awards so far, but the experience of singing with Unnikrishnan ji.
There are people I'll always love to listen to, and I'm always ending up discovering new songs by them, which is crazy. Like Stevie Wonder.
I feel much more physically connected to my voice, and I like the physicality of the voice, and how the voice can physically occupy a song.
As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.
The worst thing about not being president anymore is I was disoriented for three weeks because nobody every played a song when I walked in.
The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.
Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.
I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
None of my songs are written 'about' someone or something, they all just sort of tumble out unannounced, like the worst kind of house guest.
Your testimony doesn't mean anything if it is not your testimony. So every song that I write it happened at one point in my life or another.
I was made to go to church and I heard the gospel songs, and every now then somebody would come through with a guitar and that was a thrill!
I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.
Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By.
When I'm recording something (especially because I produce my own music) I might consider how hard it would be to replicate a song on stage.
I think 'Country Girl' is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.
It’s a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music.
I just love expressing my joy and my mind through what I wear, or how I cook, or how I dance, or how I write or perform a song - how I move.
You know, being able to, in my mind, have a song that you know doesn't really have any loose ends or you know, extra fat in it, so to speak.
Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling.
If I'm doing a concert, and I'm having a problem with the audience... I just play a Bob Marley song, and I'm good for the rest of the night.
I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the same thing all the time.
If there's something that I really need to say that I can't say by speaking to someone, I usually write it in a song or a letter to someone.
Robert Gass and 'On Wings of Song' bring about magical transformation and inspire people with extraordinary, uplifting, and spiritual music.
I studied other singers, so I would learn how to phrase, and learn how to breathe. And the main thing was, I learned how to inhabit my song.
I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.
You don't actually have to understand the song to be emotionally moved and uplifted, whereas with language it becomes quirky and analytical.
In a song you can kind of stage-manage everything so that it puts you in a good light. And once a song is recorded, it always performs well.
To die, so young to die. No, no, not I, I love the warm sunny skies, light, song, shining eyes, I want no war, no battle cry, No, no, not I.
I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in my songs, that's what I'm really doing.
I feel like music can affect you in so many ways. When you hear a song with a happy melody, it can change your mood; it can change your day.
On her Slave For You video: It's a very sensual video so I thought it was a good reflection of the song. My Mum thought it was... different.
I maintain that the best song is the one that ends up on the album. So whether I've written it or I haven't, I'm very comfortable with both.
It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.
In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.
After about three lessons [my] voice teacher said, "Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way. You're a song stylist. Always do it your way."
Inviting audiences to open up and hear things differently is an important part of what I do. But I still love to sing songs with words, too.