Quotes about son
song baby hearing
So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby. Ronnie Spector
song kids college
Bloody Hammer is a screw capitalism song about college kids banging hammers on top of the roof. Roky Erickson
song long important
I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated arrangements and breaks anymore. Rokia Traore
song writing names
You can draw a line between what I'm interested in and what I'm not interested in. On one side you can name Dylan and Lennon, who observe the world and have feelings, and write songs directly from those feelings. On the vapid side you have pop groups who need material and write songs to fill the hole, rather than getting somebody else. Roger Waters
song falling-in-love book
I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.
song writing thinking
Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.
song father creativity
I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.
song peace children
A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through. Rod Stewart
song profound written
You're every love song ever written.
son done said
How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?
song able honest
I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.
song optimism defense
Optimism is my best defense.
song inspiration writing
Inspiration and stealing are two completely different things. If somebody wants to make a song like "Stairway to Heaven" and writes a song on acoustic guitar, Led Zeppelin does not own every song that's on acoustic guitar for the rest of time. Robin Thicke
song writing night
There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a day for two months on the radio, songs that people will want to dance to on a Saturday night. Robert Wyatt
song culture accessibility
What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.
song character adventure
Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.
song writing thinking
We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not that I think it's better or worse than anyone else's, but if I think that nobody else would have done it if I hadn't, well then that's ok.
song sorry done
I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.
song people frank
People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.
song writing doe
I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.
son people guy
People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.' Robert Teeter
song guitar drunk
When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs. Robert Smith
song eye faces
Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.
song play world
Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.
song real play
Each time I play a song it seems more real.
song groups ten
If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
song stuff entertainment
I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.
song writing felt
I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?
song hate fall
Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.
song play knows
You don't really know a song until you play it live.
song ambition past
And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good humour and sensibility and I think that's okay. I don't care about the past, I'm a musician with ambition. Robert Plant
song trying albums
I'm not trying to be cosmic, it's just that everything's on a roll and that's how it is. The songs within the album discuss that very condition.
song keys kind
The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.