Song Quotes
"Macarena" is a great song. If music is something you can remember - the worst crime music can do is to be forgettable.
I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.
I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.
I either write songs on guitar, or... I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop.
Any time I write a new song, I am jazzed about it for like 24 hours and then I am over it and want to write another one.
I had been practicing guitar about six months beforehand; I concentrated mostly on the songs I had to play. I got those down pretty well so they could use me actually playing.
I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.
A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.
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.
I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.
A gush of bird song, a patter of dew A cloud and a rainbow's warning; Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue An April day in the morning!
Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams; And sorrow tracketh wrong, As echo follows song.
You can begin feeling whatever you want (even if it's not there).. the universe will correspond to the nature of your song.
A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that's what bass does for me. I feel like the glue to everything.
I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.
If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.
Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.
I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.
That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.
I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.
God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star.
I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.
I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.
The singing of the songs of Zion, though imperfectly, with the inspiration of God, will touch the hearts of the honest more effectively than if sung well without the Spirit of God.
Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put it out there in the form of a song.
Jack White has just done a song for Coca-Cola. End of. He ceases to be in the club. And he looks like Zorro on doughnuts.
Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.
Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.
Everyone knows the power of a song and it takes you back to that place. Just that power of words can heal.
We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.
I'm a family guy. A lot of my songs are inspired by my kids. Simple relationships. Watching them grow up, watching them share experiences with me and vice versa.
Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.
All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.
Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.
Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.
While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.
I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.
Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.
If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
