Quotes about son
song writing world
Johnny Cash's face belongs on Mount Rushmore...I don't write as much as I did back when I was writing songs every day. I've come to know when I've got a good one, although sometimes it takes the world awhile to catch up with me...If you're in it because you love it and you have to do it, that's the right reason. If you're in it because you want to get rich or famous, don't do it. Kris Kristofferson
song thinking differences
Bobby McGee' was the song that made the difference for me. Every time I sing it, I still think of Janis.
song heart eye
Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of an original, creative imagination, alive with humor and heartbreak and irony and intelligence, with truth and beauty in the details. Deep stuff. And they get better every time you listen to them.
song fighting years
I've known Prince for many years - I worked on the "Raspberry Beret" video - and Kirstie [Alley] and I used to fight about him.He once sent a card [saying] he had penned a song about me, called "Palomino Pleasure Ride." I remember bringing this card to work one time and showing Kirstie and saying: "See? Now who's the better friend?" It was so ridiculous. Kirstie Alley
song art thinking
And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was just kind of a cappella, and I did it for this art piece I did where people could come and play music to go with a voice Kim Gordon
song writing ideas
I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal. Kerry King
song uprising internet
Even though there's these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there's any good riffs in them, we raped the songs and put in the new ones.
song writing atmosphere
When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words. Keren Ann
song jobs writing
You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape. I like to create ambiance and atmosphere. The writing is the intimate part of it. It is a sketch. The production is the whole painting.
song art real
The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. I don't mean sad. Melancholy is sort of a comfort. Melancholy has a sort of beauty to it. This attracts me to every other form of art...
song distance writing
Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.
song waitress
[ Adrienne Shelly] explain exactly what she was looking for. This was her movie [Waitress].She also wrote the songs that I sing in it. She wrote everything. She chose the colour of our outfits; she designed the set of the diner. She was very, very involved at every level. Keri Russell
song language cry
There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry. Mark Twain
song eras astute
Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically. Martin Fry
song tests theme
One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it. Martin Fleischmann
song emotional strikes
I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally. Martin Gore
song important velvet-underground
I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.
song writing guitar
When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.
song art writing
Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.
song thinking solo
As part of Depeche Mode, I don't think it's right for me to be using my own songs for a solo project. I'm not a very prolific songwriter, so I keep those for Depeche Mode.
song writing long
I didn't write songs for a very long time.
song america people
People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.
song writing thinking
When you first sit down to write the first song, until you've maybe got three or four under your belt, it's always, to me, like a mountain to climb. You look at that one blank piece of paper and you think, `God, how many songs do I have to write here?' It always feels like pressure.
song band use
It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.
song trying different
Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.
song writing thinking
I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in that shuffle-blues beat, and I think that's probably why I tend to write like that.
song writing needs
God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.
song hate mean
I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.
song names land
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings. Martin Heidegger
song heart dancing
People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts. Marsha Norman
song love-you unique
If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.
song answers culture
I can answer anything about any American pop culture song ever. Mark McGrath
song writing kids
When I'm writing a theme song for a TV show I always think, "What would be Pavlovian where a kid would be in the kitchen, or an adult would be in the kitchen, and they hear the theme song come on and it would draw them back to the other room so that they would watch the show?" Mark Mothersbaugh