Quotes about son
song writing self
I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We’re all going to have bummer moments. That’s not the stuff I choose to share. Jason Mraz
song writing half
To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish.
song thinking play
I think more obvious to others, is that I'm most vulnerable on stage. Even though I know which songs I'm going to play, I try and keep it loose and base my stage time more on what the audience is requesting of me.
song realization world
It's from being melancholy and having my human down experiences that I learn, that I overcome, that I transform - and these realizations I put into song. That's what I choose to put in my backpack and carry with me around the world.
song get-better
Songs always get better after you start playing them live.
song style trying
It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.
song writing ideas
I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.
song writing fiction
The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.
song kids thinking
I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that’s the joy. It’s like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they’re your kids.
song mean want
To create an album of love, I really had - I thought it was going to be easy, because I've always written love songs. But I thought if I really want to make a love album that contributes, that actually means something, I've got to go deep.
song hands people
You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.
song encouragement laughter
Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way.
song love-you generosity
There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe.
song philosophy writing
Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.
song writing healing
When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages.
song home feelings
I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.
song yoga walking-meditation
Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.
song writing thinking
By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.
song sacred next
I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.
song wind bird
I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves of my many woodland friends.
song pushing different
When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different. Hillary Scott
song two people
For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song. Hilary Rosen
song taken granted
The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created. Herbert Croly
song speech use
The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song. Herbert Read
song calling hours
What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours? F. Scott Fitzgerald
song nice boys
What a wonderful song, she thought-everything was wonderful tonight, most of all this romantic scene in the den with their hands clinging and the inevitable looming charmingly close. The future vista of her life seemed an unending succession of scenes like this: under moonlight and pale starlight, and in the backs of warm limousines and in low cosy roadsters stopped under sheltering trees-only the boy might change, and this one was so nice.
song voice deathless
that voice was a deathless song.
song thinking hands
His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed —that voice was a deathless song.
song writing firsts
When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later. Evan Dando
song writing minutes
The best songs I write in 20 minutes.
song memories book
I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.
song writing stories
One of my favorite things to do is to craft and to write songs and tell stories, and another thing is to really just flip out basically, and release kind of my unruly energies. Eugene Hutz
song water theatre
I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least. Eugene Ionesco