Quotes about song
song memories past
In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis. Dwight Yoakam
song strong guitar
To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track.
song artist names
Anytime an artist puts your name in a song, it's unbelievable. It never gets old. Dwyane Wade
song writing lasts
Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like a fluke. Courtney Barnett
song writing lazy
I try to write a lot and my process is kind of back and forth. I procrastinate a lot so when I do sit down to write, I'm pretty lazy at it. And it's such a frustrating thing sometimes - writing - when you don't do it all the time, you get that thing in your head that you have nothing to talk about and you can't write songs.
song thinking play
The music, I think, is just as important as the lyrics; it portrays the emotion of the song. I play the kind of music that I want to listen to.
song thinking people
People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people always find different things in my songs, which is really good.
song thinking catchy
I think that a good song is catchy, and a great song is not catchy - but it has a deeper meaning.
song writing guitar
I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.
song
I don't like to overcook songs.
song secret needs
Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place. Courtney Love
song responsibility guitar
Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions.
song cheating sex
There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars cheating on their wives, sex.
song thinking should
I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it. Colin Meloy
song nice relief
It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs.
song guitar hunters
The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's songwriting, not the elaborate guitar solos. I'm a song person. Once it starts to break out of that structure and become loopy, it's uninteresting to me.
song hurt writing
When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew that nobody was listening at the time and that it wouldn't hurt to challenge myself and get weirder and see if I could alienate more people
song writing rocks
I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously. Colin Hay
song writing thinking
I suppose ever since I was about 14, I remember listening to "Sgt. Pepper's," and I remember thinking, "how do you possibly write songs like that?" I remember starting to try and write songs around that age, but just sitting around with an acoustic guitar, and try to come up with ideas for songs, and that's just what I've done ever since. I just never really stopped doing that, I suppose.
song men thinking
The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time.
song writing feel-good
I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.
song play kind
I like to let the songs speak so that they can go through some kind of rebirth as you play them.
song smack
Every song a hit, every hit a smack! Colin Mochrie
songs
Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them. Bob Weir
songs
For as long as I'm able to write songs and sing them, it's just about making them ones I feel proud to sing again and again. Steve Forbert
song drama life-is-like
Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you have to offer is your own sensibility, maybe your own sense of humor or insider pathos or meaning. All of us can sing the same song, and there will still be four billion different renditions. Anne Lamott
song memories writing
You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born.
song fall winter
Song falls silent, music is dumb, But the air burns with their fragrance, And white winter, on its knees, Observes everything with reverent attention. Anna Akhmatova
song children tongue
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
song heart world
Now no one will listen to songs. The prophesied days have begun. Latest poem of mine, the world has lost its wonder, Don't break my heart, don't ring out.
song land enemy
I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise.
song children insomnia
Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays.
song son notes
God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son. Ann Voskamp