“Folk music is not so much a body of art as it is a process, an attitude, and a way of life; its distinguishing features lie not within the songs themselves, but in the relations of those songs to a folk culture.” WayArtBodyLyingSongCultureProcessAttitudeMusic IsRelationFolksFeaturesFolk Music Author:Sam Hinton
“I've done a lot of movies that don't have any music in them, and I've always sort of had a kind of wary attitude about music because it can be so manipulative, and also because with pop music, I feel like everybody kind of has their own relationship to songs.” FeelsKindDoneSongAttitudeMusic IsPopsPop MusicManipulative Author:Joe Swanberg
“Punk. . .was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure out a way to make a song out of that, and that's what it was all about.” IfsWayKindTwoSongCan DoAttitudeFiguresNotesGuitarPunkDo It Yourself Author:David Byrne
“The attitude is in my personality. It's going to come out in the songs no matter what. If you're pushing the vocal constantly at 10, there's no room for any dynamics. There's no room for any variation in tone. There's no room for anything.” IfsMatterSongRoomsAttitudePersonalityNo Matter WhatTonePushingWhat IfVocalVariationDynamics Author:Mike Ness
“When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things people respond to in my writing is that 'just say it' attitude of my songs. There really is nothing personal or private; it's all universal, if you can just find the courage to be open about your life.” PeopleIfsWritingFirstsHardSongAttitudeUniversalWriting SongsExplicit Author:Ani DiFranco
“My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail?” IfsWritingSongAttitudeThese DaysJailSongwritersMy Attitude Author:John Hiatt
“My whole career was launched in such sort of poptastic style with 'Kids In America', and I liked - and like - being poptastic. Songs big on melody, high on energy, lots of attitude... what's wrong with that?” WholeBigsKidsAmericaSongEnergyAttitudeCareersStyleMelody Author:Kim Wilde
“Through the years I've accumulated this big bag of songs. When I go out I do close to two hours, and it's all just attitude - and up-tempo. I've accumulated so many of those types of songs now that the show just gets off with a bang, and I'll only do two or three ballads the whole show.” YearsTwoWholeShowsBigsSongThreeHoursAttitudeTypeBagsBangsTempoThrough The YearsBallads Author:Toby Keith
“There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these ideas are brought forward. That appears to be easy. You can say, "Oh, well. I don't have to bother about not eating pork, and not drinking wine, and all you have to do is read the beautiful poetry of Rumi and talk about wine, women and song. Or something like that." This kind of attitude. This is the antipode of the other attitude which says Islam is nothing but throwing bombs, it has nothing to do with internal or inward purification.” WellsKindIdeasBeautifulSpiritualSongEasyAttitudePracticeTeachingEatingWineDrinkingIslamBotherBombsInternalsThrowingInwardPorkPurificationOh WellDrinking WineSpiritual TeachingBeautiful PoetryAntipodes Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“There's no love in my songs. There's just a lot of resentment. Just bad attitude. But that's intentional, that's what I like. I love the whole idea of Motown. Their idea was to sing how down on their luck they were, but the song implied hope that it would get better. I liked that idea, and I wanted to go even further with it.” SongAttitudeLuckGet BetterResentmentBad AttitudeMotown Author:Memory Tapes