Quotes about song
song writing enjoy
Right now I really enjoy writing songs. Jonny Lang
song writing way
Sometimes I'll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I'll write the whole song, and that's really the only way it feels comfortable.
song art teaching
When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt, so was sort of a novice folkie. ... I was singing folk songs at that time. Joni Mitchell
song people used
People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me, they're too personal.
song knows
I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is.
song light want
I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs.
song actresses method
I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.
song keys movement
What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.
song writing social
I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.
song war creativity
We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.
song encounters doe
How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.
song new-york block
In a pure anonymous encounter you find a world alive and full of character. In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here, in Los Angeles, there are fewer characters because they are all inside automobiles.
song air singing
Me, I was still in the pygmy hippo in a skirt, singing lusty songs about Solomon's private life and a giant stone back and forth through the air as I climbed out of the quarry at the edge of the site. Jonathan Stroud
song common-sense brain
Phillip is a repository of random snatches of film dialogue and song lyrics. To make room for all of it in his brain, he apparently cleared out all the areas where things like reason and common sense are stored. Jonathan Tropper
song strong fall
Atlas, we read in ancient song, Was so exceeding tall and strong, He bore the skies upon his back, Just as the pedler does his pack; But, as the pedler overpress'd Unloads upon a stall to rest, Or, when he can no longer stand, Desires a friend to lend a hand, So Atlas, lest the ponderous spheres Should sink, and fall about his ears, Got Hercules to bear the pile, That he might sit and rest awhile. Jonathan Swift
song fall sleep
A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh. There is a message outside and a message inside, and those messages are the same, like the pat and thud of two heartbeats, one within you, one surrounding. The message of the lullaby is that it’s okay to dim the eyes for a time, to lose sight of yourself as you sleep and as you grow: if you drift, it says, you’ll drift ashore: if you fall, you will fall into place. Kevin Brockmeier
song voice clothes
When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song. Kevin Bacon
song hero home
It seemed a place where heroes could fitly feast after victory, where weary harvesters could line up in scores along the table and keep their Harvest Home with mirth and song, or where two or three friends of simple tastes could sit about as they pleased and eat and smoke and talk in comfort and contentment. Kenneth Grahame
song fun sassy
Things that Never Cross a Mans Mind is probably one of my favorite upbeat tempo songs because it is just a sassy song, and its a fun song. Kellie Pickler
song play people
If there's a certain song that I want to reach a certain person or certain type of person, that's when I play it for people. Keke Palmer
song years hearing
Dubstep has been big in the UK for years. I'm fine with hearing a dubstep drop in any song. Katy B
song writing names
I love writing songs where the name is the title.
song people way
People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes. Kurt Cobain
song people radio
People ask me what's like to hear our song on the radio. I don't know, I don't listen to the radio
song hate thinking
There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo. All in all, I think we sound like The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath.
song half theme
My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.
song taken night
Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.
song school writing
I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play. But during those high school years when I was playing guitar in my bedroom, I at least had the intuition that I had to write my own songs.
song writing torn-apart
I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.
song theme frustrating
My songs have always had frustrating themes - relationships I've had
song pain writing
There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would like them to be more personal. The emotions, the songs themselves are personal. I can't do it - I've tried to write personally and it just doesn't seem to work. It would be too obvious. Some things that you could read in could fit into anyone's life that had any amount of pain at all. It's pretty cliche'.
song husband silence
Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her. Khaled Hosseini
song inspiring-love mouths
Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth. Khalil Gibran