Quotes about song
song teenager writing
I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in my songs, that's what I'm really doing. Lucinda Williams
song strong nice
When I started out playing guitar and singing, I was about twelve, going on thirteen. The role models for me back then were the folk singers. They all had these high, really nice voices and ranges, like Judy Collins and Joan Baez, and then later, of course, Joni Mitchell and Linda Ronstadt. I decided early on that I was going to learn how to write songs really, really well, because I didn't want to have to compete as a singer. I didn't feel that it was my strong point.
song writing good-enough
I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.
song writing easier
It's easier to write songs when you're single.
song writing together
I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.
song essence car
Of course, Im older now. Im in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for Car Wheels or Essence or whatever. Different things were going on.
song mean artist
I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn't that what's important?
song ideas want
I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there
song mean loss
I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?
song voice perfect
The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.
song sleep eye
In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her whole song of sorrow just for me. I helped her put me to sleep, so to speak, and succeeded pretty well... I wasn't entirely alone... It's not possible to sleep alone... Louis-Ferdinand Celine
song shining world
The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.
song perfect trying
A lot of my albums that Ive done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. Its before you mess with it too much - you can take away all the spontaneity and the emotion of something by trying to make it sound perfect. Liz Callaway
song thinking singers
I'm not a very good singer. I just know how to present a song, and honey, I think I've been through enough to do it right. Liza Minnelli
song cds littles
It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores, here's your EP that you offer online, here's a subscription for songs you recorded on the road, here's your live stuff streaming. Liz Phair
song people independence
I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.
song giving people
I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.
song eye darkness
To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear. Margaret Millar
song blood age
Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood. Michael Jackson
song forever special
To me, ballads are special, because you can have a pop song that’ll be know for three weeks and then you’ll hear nothing else about it. Nobody else will record it and it’ll just be gone. But if you do a good ballad, it’ll be in the world forever.
song blow wind
I know a tree feels it when the wind blows through it. It probably goes, 'Chhhhhh, this is wonderful.' And that's how I feel when I'm singing some songs. It's wonderful.
song pain emotional
I have always felt compassion for the planet. Sometime I just start to get emotional. I cry because I can almost feel the pain in the air. I put it in words and in song and in dance I think that is what artistry is.
song laughter dancing
All the forms of popular music from jazz to hip-hop, to bebop, to soul [come from black innovation]. You talk about different dances from the catwalk, to the jitterbug, to the Charleston, to break dancing -\-\ all these are forms of black dancing...What would [life] be without a song, without a dance, and joy and laughter, and music.
song hate done
That's why I hate to take credit for the songs I've written. I feel that somewhere, someplace, it's been done and I'm just a courier bringing it out into the world.
song children giving
Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?
song children inspiration
Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open-hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont see things by way of color. Theyre very child-like. Thats the problem with adults: they lose that child-like quality. And thats the level of inspiration thats so needed and is so important for creating and writing songs and for a sculptor, a poet or a novelist. Its that same kind of innocence, that same level of consciousness, that you create from. And kids have it. I feel it right away from animals and children and nature. Of course.
song survival identity
To propel our Louisiana culture into the future seems to be quite a task, but if one lives for the music as Cedric does, the path seems effortless. These songs may well be early brushstrokes of a life's worth of possibilities, not only for himself, but also for the identity survival of a culture. Michael Doucet
song sweet morning
Like sweet morning dew I took one look at you And it was plain to see You were my destiny Method Man
song nice play
It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are. Meshell Ndegeocello
song trying able
I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.
song thinking suffering
There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?
song land knowing
My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing that's as much as a listener can take.
song believe writing
Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter. ... I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away. Melissa Manchester