Quotes about son
song writing sleep
Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you. John Lennon
song writing thinking
I still don't know how to express the really delicate personal stuff. People think that Plastic Ono is very personal, but there are some subtleties of emotions which I cannot seem to express in pop music, and it frustrates me. Maybe that's why I still search for other ways of expressing myself. Song writing is a limiting experience in some ways - writing down words that have to rhyme.
song giving people
I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot of my songs aren't that doable.
song writing play
I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus.
song mean artist
It's not that I don't want to, it's just that there's no money in it. By that I mean the way the video business works now, the artist and the record label send out a song to a bunch of different directors and say, 'What would you do with this?' Then everyone has to come up with an idea and bid on it. For me, it's like, 'Hey, you want me to do it? Then pay me. I'm not auditioning for you.' John Landis
song ideas
I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song. John Lee Hooker
song positivity people
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments. John Barrowman
song flower responsibility
Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more. Jody Watley
son priorities would-be
What I didn't realize is how completely consumed I would be by my sons. I didn't know that the rest of my life would become so little a priority. Jodie Foster
song each-day ifs
Now you know that you can't go wrong... If you start each day with a song. Jimmy Durante
song each-day
Start off each day with a song
song play trying
The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing. Jimmy Chamberlin
song writing jamaica
I write songs on a universal basis. I was born out of the earth of Jamaica which I consider to be a part of Atlantis, the sunk continent, but that's my thing. But I write songs on a universal basis, not like Jamaican songs. Jimmy Cliff
song pain swimming
If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.
song war inspiration
Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.
song knows greater
I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.
song pain swings
Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing. Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing. Jimmy Buffett
song reading years
Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.
song writing listeners
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
song writing self
Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You keep your craft honed, you acquire the discipline to finish things. You turn into a self-taskmaster.
song monday writing
I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.
song humorous player
I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day and one of my players said, 'Every time I hear that song I have a bad game.' Jim Leyland
song car jam
Me + Love Songs on KOST=embarrassing car jam sesh. Joanna Garcia
song voice i-can
I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs. Joanna Newsom
song play keys
I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.
song writing years
I have writing songs on my own for about six years.
song writing thinking
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.
song simple thinking
I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.
song lines rhyming
I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I'm not sure if that comes across or not.
song ideas voice
My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not to make some statement about the harp - somehow has ... coloured people's interpretations of the music and projected an idea of childlike or fairytale quality or innocence. Which sometimes prevents people from listening to the songs the way I would like them to be listened to.
song
I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.
song writing thinking
I have a voice that's obviously untrained - and I think untrainable - so I kind of secreted it away for a long time. Actually, I would write songs with lyrics when I was younger, but I would just sing in my head.
son men done
God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it. George MacDonald