Quotes about song
song heart rocks
The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful. Nick Cave
song character writing
The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level.
song writing ideas
The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else.
song writing problem
The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song.
song giving wife
My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that.
song motivation artist
The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.
song hate narrative
I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.
song vision hollywood
What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.
songwriting
Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
song eye band
I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they're alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.
song world want
I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.
song heart attention
I don't like those songs where you have to listen to a story to get into them. I don't want to have to pay attention to music in that way, I just want it to hit me in the heart and do what music's supposed to do.
song writing views
I write songs from the point of view I had at a time;I'm not tryingto write songs from a young person's point of view.That only ends in disaster.
song writing done
I've always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.
song writing doe
I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
song somewhere-else elements
There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.
song thinking leaving
The editing of a song is largely what makes the song for me and I think that actually if I had started going like 'I want you to burn' it would have pinned that song down to a particular thing and made that song a smaller idea than what it is. By leaving that off it's much more open, broader.
song baby strong
There's that kind of song, "Whoah baby, I love you," which doesn't have a visual element, but a very strong emotional element, and these are the great songs to me - those ones that you put them on and they just make you feel great, or whatever.
song writing three
I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.
song writing kind
I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.
song writing world
The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
song fun boys
With my solo music, I really try to step out of the box and do stuff I don't get to do with the boys. I wanted it to be fun, rock-infused and try some new things while going back to my roots. "All American" the song is one of my favorites from the album, which is why I chose to title the album after it. To me, it's the perfect song to represent the feel of the album. Nick Carter
song views stories
I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me. Nanci Griffith
song children god-bless
Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
song sound three
Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
song mean hands
Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
song i-can ifs
If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it. Namie Amuro
song thinking sometimes
I think sometimes you are born with a song. Nana Mouskouri
song soul firsts
My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
song track records
I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it. Mose Allison
song people care
I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with other people's songs.
song writing news
I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the news. The punchline comes to me, and I go over it in my head and get the song form. I hadn't been doing that a lot.
song writing perfect
You always want to write the perfect song. But no one will ever write the perfect song, I guess. I would just like to write on that has all the elements of what I'm tring to do. And I'm working on it. I'm always working on it.