Quotes about song
song important audience
Inviting audiences to open up and hear things differently is an important part of what I do. But I still love to sing songs with words, too. Bobby McFerrin
song worry want
Here's a little song I wrote You might want to sing it note for note Don't worry, be happy In every life we have some trouble But when you worry you make it double Don't worry, be happy Don't worry, be happy now
song dark thinking
I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.
song ukulele piano
I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.
song children college
It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.
song silly drinking
I try not to "perform." I try to come on stage and be myself, to sing the way I would in a room by myself, to interact with the audience the way I would relate to them if we were in my kitchen drinking tea and making up silly songs. Maybe the way to get past the fear of being ourselves is simply to try it more often.
song worry want
Here's a little song I wrote. You might want to sing it note for note. Don't worry, be happy.
song writing people
In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive. Barbra Streisand
song thinking ideas
I just don't like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn't need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
song people needs
If I wanted to make a quick buck, there's far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people. If you want a hit song, all you need to do is rewrite an old song. It might have been proven to work, but you won't be remembered the same way. Avicii
song art thinking
If someone asked me if I could have anything in the world, what would l want? If l could own anything, like owning a piece of art, l think it would be Elton John's publishing, on his first seven albums. I don't want the money. Being able to own those songs Is like owning a painting of someone you admire. Axl Rose
song rocks car
Rock n' roll was a bad and evil thing. l remember once I was singing a Barry Manilow song, "Mandy," In the back seat of the car. It came on the radio, and I kind of sang with it, and I got smacked In the mouth because that song was "evil."
song art responsibility
I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we're coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.
song rain unrequited-love
November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
song writing mad
It's easiest to write songs when I'm either really in love or really mad at a guy. It's just always best when I'm feeling superemotional. Avril Lavigne
song heart guy
A lot of my songs are personal and about me being 16 and having guys break my heart and feeling like it's the end of the world.
song important gone
I'm very expressive. Expressing my emotions and experiences through music has always been an important outlet for me. Many of my songs are influenced by personal events and experiences that I have gone through.
song emotional interesting
The mall tour was right off of my second record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic performance every day in a different mall! One interesting thing I remember is playing 'My Happy Ending' a lot, and that song was so new that I remember getting emotional.
song hate writing
I know my fans look up to me and that's why I make my songs so personal; it's all about things I've experienced and things I like or hate. I write for myself and hope that my fans like what I have to say.
song writing boys
It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.
song people radio
When people come to a concert, they wanna hear the hits, the big radio songs, and they wanna hear them how they're used to hearing them. I like playing them how they were recorded.
song people want
The truth is, people go to shows because they want a show. They want showbiz. When people talk about a show they saw it's not because they heard a song, it's because they were excited and geared up about the show. Arthur Fogel
song years two
I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline. Arthur Godfrey
song mind singing
He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since. Arthur Golden
song trying stories
I try to tell a story musically in a song. Barry White
song views two
I would go on the iTunes chart and see the hottest songs, then I'd cover them. People would go on YouTube and search for those songs. That's how I got my views. I'd post two or three songs a week. Austin Mahone
song laughing listening
To be honest, I know this probably sounds corny or whatever because I'm a musician, but listening to music really helps me relax and calm down - listening to my favorite songs. Also, laughing and hanging out with my friends.
song couple play
I thought it would be cool to Skype with fans on their birthday and spend, like, a half-hour with them. I did a couple of two-hour Skypes. I just hang out with them and play songs and stuff. At first they're kind of shy, but after a while they open up. I've had a lot of people tell me I'm doing something no one has ever done before.
song rapper talking
I'm not going to be like a rapper and mention the people I'm talking about in my songs by name. Austin Carlile
song writing ideas
If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.
song skins world
When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch. Arundhati Roy
song skills able
The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song. Ariel Pink
song jobs thinking
As soon as you start to think of that thing that you want to convey or say, you can always just say it much better than you can actually rhyme it or stuff it into a song. It's very, very difficult to just kind of get your point across without going the back way. And you have to be good at that, to not think about things so hard. Let the pen take over, so that it's somebody else's job to dissect the lyrics and tell you what you're all about.