“Find your balance and stand with it. Find your song and sing it out. Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance. Find the questions that only you know how to ask and The answers that you are content to not know.” KnowsSongAsksAnswersKnow HowBalanceSunshineCadence Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“The songwriting style, to me, is superior. There was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song is. You get joy in listening to these Buddy Holly or Roy Orbison sad lyrics. I'm attracted to songs that have balance between the darks and the lights and giving them all equal opportunity.” GivingMatterLightJoyCertainSongOpportunityStyleListeningAmountBalanceEqualSuperiorsSongwritingBuddyEqual OpportunityHolliesWriting Style Author:M. Ward
“I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a pitiful excuse for their own self-serving publicity. In response to their protests, I will provide a show where I balance my songs with a wholesome Bible reading. This way, fans will not only hear my so-called, violent point of view, but we can also examine the virtues of wonderful 'Christian' stories of disease, murder, adultery, suicide and child sacrifice. Now that seems like 'entertainment' to me.” WayNeedsChildrenStillsSelfStoriesUseShowsSeemsChristianSongReadingReligiousViewsVirtueWonderfulSacrificeGroupsAtheismFansBalanceDiseaseTragedyMurderSuicideResponseEntertainmentExcusePositive AtheismPoint Of ViewViolentProtestServingAmazedAdulteryPublicityPitifulSelf ServingBible Reading Author:Marilyn Manson
“The songs themselves sometimes have messages and people can read into them different ways, but I try to use concerts as a way to gather people and then have information there. I think that's important to find that balance, a way to be able to turn people on to things at the shows, but also just have it be an entertainment experience for people who just want to hear music and dance and don't want the extra stuff.” PeopleThinkingWayWantTryingImportantDifferentSometimesUseShowsAbleSongTurnsStuffInformationBalanceMessagesEntertainmentDifferent WaysExtrasConcertsMusic And Dance Author:Jack Johnson
“I usually start with a guitar riff or some little pattern of chords, and then I kind of go from there. Usually my lyrics are the last thing to go onto a song. For years and years I only ever did instrumental, so I'm still trying to get confidant with my lyrics and find the right balance. I'll generally get inspired from the music. I'll have a guitar line, and then I'll have a melody line, and I hook the lyrics up to fit that rhythm. So, my lyrics to tend be very rhythmic as well. They work with the music rather than the music works around them.” TryingYearsWellsKindLittlesStillsLastsSongLinesBalanceFitInspiredGuitarPatternsRhythmMelodyHookChordsConfidant Author:Butterfly Boucher
“When I'm writing obviously I have all the nostalgia in the world, I have all the emotion in the world, but then when I actually perform, I need to just perform it, and that's it. I do retain like a little bit of it because I have to, I sing and perform the songs so I have to - it's a performance of the songs - but I just have to get the right balance.” WorldNeedsWritingLittlesSongBitsEmotionBalanceLittle BitPerformancesNostalgia Author:Ellie Goulding
“Also, with acting and dancing I portray a predetermined character and story for the most part, with music I have the creative freedom to create a song on a whim with whomever I choose and at whatever time I choose to do it. It's more liberating artistically and that's why I've stuck with it. It's a good balance to be able to portray a character and also be myself in avenues that I'm passionate about.” CharacterStoriesAbleSongActingCreativeBalanceDancingPassionateStuckLiberatingAvenuesWhimPredeterminedCreative Freedom Author:Alyson Stoner
“I think it's good to have a balance. Everything I write about, it's not something I necessarily might have went through, there's songs where I might have an idea, sometimes it might be a melody or something that I like, I make up a story to go with that melody. But I do think it's most important to have honest songs.” ThinkingWritingImportantIdeasSometimesStoriesMightSongHonestBalanceMelody Author:Leon Bridges
“I'm glad people think I'm a badass. I'm a rock and roller, and I'm an R&B and a blueswoman. I don't do fairy music, although I love Celtic music and sensitive music. There's a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.” PeopleThinkingSongRocksBalanceGladAssSensitiveKicksFairyBadassBalladsCelticKick AssCeltic Music Author:Bonnie Raitt
“I guess it's just my job to somehow balance knowing that every song is going to come differently and be different, but also know that, on the other hand, I am a songwriter and I am a craftsman, and I do have a craft and a technique and a method. So I need to balance the technique and the method.” KnowsNeedsDifferentHandsJobsSongKnowingBalanceMethodTechniqueCraftsSongwritersCraftsman Author:Brett Dennen
“I'm pretty excited for people to listen to the story of each song. It's definitely like a giant book with different stories in it. They are all very child-like but also a balance between light and dark.” PeopleChildrenBookDifferentStoriesLightSongDarkBalanceExcitedGiantsLight And Dark Author:Melanie Martinez
“I used to have to come home and write and then record work tapes of those new songs. So now I can do it all on the road and that has been a huge difference that has happened in 2016. It is the only way for me to really balance. There is a lot of overhead, but it's a big investment towards being a dad and a husband, which is ultimately my number one goal.” WayWritingHas BeensI CanHomeBigsUsedSongGoalCan DoDifferencesNumbersRecordsHappenedHugeBalanceDadHusbandInvestmentComing HomeTapeI Can Do ItOverheadNew SongsBeing A Dad Author:Granger Smith
“The only thing contrived is the production - you can over-produce to the point you kill a good idea, you can under-produce so that the song's amazing but you'll have folks at a radio station saying they won't play it, so there's this balance, and it has to be true.” IdeasPlaySongProduceBalanceFolksRadioProductionsBeing TrueStationsGood IdeasRadio Stations Author:Ryan Tedder
“I feel like you're being coy if you don't do something and celebrate the 20th or 25th anniversary in some way. Just as I've never, ever had any kind of embargo on playing songs from Endtroducing, no matter how much I wanted people to like my new stuff - I've never, ever stopped playing Endtroducing, for that reason as well. It's a give and take - it's a balance. If there's one theme, I guess, to this entire discussion, then it's that.” PeopleGivingKindReasonSongLike YouBalanceCelebrateDiscussionGive And Take Author:DJ Shadow
“Sometimes there's this balance: if you try to clear 10 things you'll probably get lucky and be able to clear most of them, or all of them; try to clear 20 things, in my mind there's gonna be at least one issue, maybe two - and then that's when it starts getting into either re-recording stuff, or you've got to take that song off.” TryingMindSometimesSongBalanceLucky Author:DJ Shadow
“In all honesty I think, sometimes with the LGBT community, if you look at anything else surrounding it, there's always been this oddness and sense of humor. I really appreciate that. It's kind of a hard world to take yourself too seriously. It's a good balance check. It's not serious all the time. I'm that way too, even though I write a lot of depressing music. A lot of times our shows are not very serious at all. We joke a lot and then we play a sad song and then we joke again.” ThinkingWorldWritingKindSometimesSongCommunityHonestySeriousBalanceJokesAppreciateLgbtSense Of HumorDepressingSad Song Author:Radical Face
“Sometimes things fall in your lap and sometimes you really carve them out. I've found that songs I really like can happen both ways. I've also been trying to learn when to step away and take a break and when to keep pushing through. For me it's a delicate balance of staying inspired and staying consistent, and I'm still trying to figure it out.” TryingSometimesSongFallBreakBalanceInspiredConsistentDelicate Author:Ben Rector