Quotes about song
song numbers insecurity
For me there's insecurity when you're releasing an album because you spend all of this time working on that one thing and then once it's done, it's done. After you put it out there to the public you never know which songs are going to work or even if the album is going to work as a whole so there is a little bit of nervousness around predicting what the numbers will be and if it's going to be well- received. John Legend
song determination writing
Music business is hard. It's very difficult. And it's not for everyone. Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin.
song prayer live-life
I wrote the song "Show Me" as a prayer to God asking simple, honest questions about life and death and why there is so much suffering in the world. As I grew with the song I realized I shouldn't limit these questions solely to God; I should ask those questions of others and of myself.
song people may
People tell me all the time that my songs help them express things to loved ones that they may not be able to say themselves.
song europe scotland
Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of [Bob] Dylan's best songs came from Scotland, Ireland or England. It was a sort of cultural exchange. John Lennon
song real singing
There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff to be heard in Liverpool. Just occasionally you hear very old records on the radio or TV of real workers in Ireland or somewhere singing these songs and the power of them is fantastic.
song rock-and-roll america
Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.
song two revolution
'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'.
song simple interesting
I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.
song writing people
I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.
song heart remember
Remember to let her into your heart.
song
Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them
song writing sleep
Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.
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
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 thinking trying
And it's been a process of digging through the songs and trying to make them born on stage again. I think they are very different. I think they come off very differently. I think they come off, I don't know if it's masculine or outward, extroverted than introverted. I didn't know. It's just been a process. Justin Vernon
song jobs night
Some songs, some nights won't do anything for you, but people enjoy them and that's the job. The magic is finding those places to stand in the song and gain perspective.
song people band
I don't feel anything about it. I really like "Staring at the Sun" - I like that song a lot. I haven't heard a lot of their records, but I know that they're cool. I know that the people who listen to them are really awesome and I like those people, so I know that I would like the band, I just don't own their records.
song naked ends
I'll get you naked by the end of this song. Justin Timberlake