Song Quotes
If somebody sings a song that I wrote, I feel like its a nice point of validation for the song, because it shows that the song is able to stand on its own. I like that.
Yes, I co-wrote a song on the album called "Good Friend To Me" with Annie Roboff and Bekka Bramlett.
I really want to show my supporters - -the direction I wish to go into, and my fans know that is what I want to do! They even have recommended songs for me to sing, I love my fans...they are awesome!
When you are in the American Idol bubble, a lot of contestants want to go as far as they can and wish to be on point with ready-to-go songs.
I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'
If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs.
I've turned down songs that would be much easier to play on the radio that I don't think should be on the album. Maybe I've shot myself in the foot.
I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.
"Snapped" happened maybe like two months after I released the mixtape. I just like took a break from recording and that was the first song I wrote and recorded after the mixtape.
It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.
When I was on the big labels, I never calculated what would make me sell more records. I just did what I did -no different than when I wrote songs for myself in high-school.
We read the world - television, movies, songs, books - and the people in it through the lens of our own lives.
Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write.
I like to hear songs which can lay it all on, songs which can look at the dark side as well as the bright side, sometimes they can be as strong as each other. Love and hatred are close.
I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too. Some of my friends are proper musicians but I'm a song-writer. I write songs.
I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.
If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.
I usually know what kind of song I'm after. I know what I'm trying to do when I start. I don't always get there. But I try to visualize what it's actually going to be.
It sounds corny, but it's absolutely true: A song chooses me. I don't go looking for a certain kind of lyric. It kind of develops its own little arc and I'll just see what happens.
Now I know I understand that it was Sgt. Pepper's Band, that put the sixties into song, where have all the heroes gone?
During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.
Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people really like them.
Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.
The chemistry of making the songs is often about being inspired by each other and responding intuitively.
We put on certain music when we're going to a party, right? You have that playlist of songs that you listen to before you get pumped up to go out.
Happened to be the first time we played the song live, but I absolutely for the life of me could not find the key singing and had to stop the band to find it.
When you find great songs, and somehow you get a spark in a little way, it can become brand new.
I recorded the song 'Believers' because I feel the song has a strong and much needed message. We all need encouragement and something to believe in.
Music is also supposed to be fun. On this record, (titled 'III'), I really had the desire again to jump back into some good-time, fun-loving songs.
Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.
When I'm recording a song, I wake up and I'm thinking about it. I go to sleep and I'm thinking about it.
Seskin has the gift of song...his voice has a natural lilt that can’t be learned. The combination of musicianship and repertoire make for a rich and satisfying musical experience.
