Quotes about son
song writing thinking
I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo. Florence Welch
song nice father
I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?
song names albums
I've spent a lot of time in tiny venues in the way that I got my record deal and got my name out there just performing live. I was literally performing my songs in all kinds of different ways with different guitarists, and I didn't have an album up online or anything. It's been a lot of work; it definitely hasn't been a sudden explosion into fame.
song different type
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.
song expression way
During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression.
song dark singing
The songs can be dark, but the adrenaline doesn't really change, regardless of what it is I'm singing, I still have the adrenaline, it's still a high. Fernando Torres
song play piano
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano. Fiona Shaw
song trying lasts
I dont ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one. Fetty Wap
song people guy
Can't nobody do what Fetty Wap does. So when I go to the studio, it may be four to five hours max, probably three days out the week. I used to go to the studio for 10 to 15 hours, and I would do five to 10 songs. Now I go for four to five hours and I do, like, 15 to 20 songs. I'm an ad lib guy. Most people know me for my ad libs.
song two people
I really moved fast, bro. I don't want a big selection, because I don't want myself in between nobody else's problems, basically. Like, if I know these two people going at it, I'm not about to make a song with either one of them.
song come-up concepts
Once I come up with the concept, the rest of the song just comes.
song thinking firsts
The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat - Understand Me. I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
song people appreciate
To see that people appreciate the work that I put in to make these songs for them, that's what makes me care. I don't care about being Fetty Wap.
song thinking people
A lot of people got something to prove. If I had something to prove, I proved it already, so why do I have to go showboat? Like, I don't say I got the hottest song in the world. And, personally, I think otherwise.
song writing months
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. Fiona Apple
song writing want
I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.
song writing feel-better
I really, really enjoy fitting words together - but I only enjoy it when it's easy, when it sort of rolls along by itself. I never erase anything [and] I hardly ever write anything down... The song will be finished before I write it down... I won't write a song unless it serves me in some way, unless I feel I have to write the song to make myself feel better. If you're not overflowing with something, there's nothing to give.
song thinking people
I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs. Now, rather than trying to talk or do a costume change, I'll use those moments for myself. I listen to what other people are playing, or just rest, or dance, even though I don't know how to.
song writing wanted
I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
song home passion
He goes along just as a water lily Gentle on the surface of his thoughts his body floats Unweighed down by passion or intensity Yet unaware of the depth upon which he coasts And he finds a home in me For what misfortune sows, he knows my touch will reap
song writing littles
I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.
song jobs writing
I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano
song awkward hearing
Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
song art honesty
"The way I feel about music -- any song, any style -- is that there is no right and wrong, only true and false. If the music and lyrics are conceived out of honesty and if the production of the song goes along with its original message, then what has been expressed is art, regardless of what anyone's opinion is of it. So things are a lots impler if you just tell the truth.
song voice goal
Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer. Henry Louis Gates
son army revolution
It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.
song singing want
The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing. Henry Miller
song swans singing
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
song guitar singing
To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.
song teacher art
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. Henri Frederic Amiel
song flower eye
Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow . . . Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Glory in all the facts of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you. Helen Keller
song powerful heart
'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again. Cat Stevens
song sweet real
All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent. I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record. ... Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.