“I am the Alexander Graham Bell of the phone company, the Christopher Columbus of America because after 'The Twist' everything changed, .. Watch the films from 1958 up to 1959, and watch American Bandstand during that time. After the song came out, everything was different.” DifferentAmericaFilmSongCompanyWatchesChangedPhonesBellsTwistsColumbusGraham Bell Author:Chubby Checker
“Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed by the will of the writer into grace or redemption, a prophetic wail, a screed for justice, an elegy of sadness or sorrow. ... There is always a tension between experience and the thing that finally carries it forward, bears its weight, holds it in. Without that tension, one might as well write a shopping list.” WritingWellsMayMightPainSufferingSongJusticeGraceSadnessChangedBearsSorrowOrdinaryGoldWeightListsHorribleRedemptionTensionCarrieShoppingTransformedAlchemyPropheticDrossElegy Author:Andrea Dworkin
“Each album comes from definitely a different period in the evolution of each of us individually as creators and the role that we take in life. The external stimuli changed... so the songs are full of lots of different meanings.” DifferentSongRolesChangedEvolutionPeriodsAlbumsCreatorStimulusDifferent Meanings Author:Robert Plant
“I clearly remember writing songs [when I was young] and the power that it gave me of feeling like somebody. My whole life changed when I wrote those songs, even before anyone ever heard them. It wasn't a commercial thing.” WritingWholeFeelingsRememberYoungSongHeardChangedWhole LifeLife ChangingWriting Songs Author:Gwen Stefani
“The world has changed a lot since I started making records.I used to go into a studio and there were songs there, chosen for me to see if I liked them. I wasn't encouraged to write.” IfsWorldWritingUsedSongRecordsChangedStudiosChosen Author:Shelby Lynne
“I've changed the way I look at things. When I put out a record or single I don't allow myself to set up expectations like, "This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records." I have fallen into that trap before.” WayLooksSongNumbersRecordsChangedAmountExpectationsSellsFallenTrapsI've Changed Author:Scott Weiland
“I feel like songwriting changed from something that I liked doing to something that, I feel, is a very important outlet for me to digest all the things around me. Once I put thoughts into a song, I can let it go, it doesn't bug me anymore you know what I mean? It's kind of a catharsis.” KnowsFeelsKindMeanI CanImportantSongChangedSongwritingBugsOutletsLet It GoCatharsis Author:Dan Mangan
“You learn new song until you're comfortable with it to where you can record it blindfolded, but then when it comes out on the record, you forget about those little nuances and those little things that you changed during the recording process. It's those spur-of-the-moment things you do that makes it an entirely new beast that you then again have to relearn.” LittlesMomentsSongProcessForgetRecordsChangedComfortableBeastLittle ThingsSpursNuanceNew SongsBlindfoldedYou ChangedSpur Of The Moment Author:Chuck Ragan
“All films created by Walt Disney at the time of his major outpouring of work were carefully crafted to fit scenes, characters, moods and situations. If these elements changed in any way, songs - no matter how good they were - were discarded. Others were written for the new scenes. Many times, character songs were dropped because characters were dropped...sequences were dropped etc.” IfsWayMatterCharacterFilmSongSituationWrittenChangedFitSceneElementsMajorsMoodEtcSequenceDiscardedWalt Author:Richard Sherman
“I guess my voice kind of changed in middle school. It was what it is now. I remember there was this boy who used to walk behind me and sing that song that goes, "Walk like a man, talk like a man" and I was devastated. So I learned that I can pick up my voice if I want to.” IfsMenWantKindI CanSchoolRememberUsedSongVoiceWalksBehindsBoysMiddleChangedPicksDevastatedMiddle School Author:Dianna Agron
“The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.” WorldWayMindFirstsMeanWholeBodyFacesMotherSongSoundVisionDoorsHeardAchieveRocksTalentCarChangedListeningShotsFirst TimePopsIntellectYour BodySingersWhole WorldBrokeLimitationRock N RollBobNew WaysDylanSnaresPop Song Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I don't write as many songs as I used to. But, I find myself writing for social media more - times have changed. And I love photography, so a lot of my creative energy gets caught up that way.” WayWritingUsedSongEnergySocialCreativeMediaChangedPhotographyCaughtSocial MediaMore TimeCaught UpCreative EnergyTimes Have ChangedPhotography Love Author:Arlo Guthrie
“We haven't really changed, we've just gotten better at executing what we've always been trying to do. We're not really a band that has undergone huge stylistic decisions to change, we're just trying to follow the song. More and more, we let the song lead us - we don't try and put the song into a structure of our taste or our fashion.” TryingSongDecisionFashionHavensChangedHugeTasteBandStructureExecuting Author:Torquil Campbell
“The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot.” IfsSongChangedBandJanuaryRehearsing Author:James Iha
“I convinced Tim to add one song, and then we added five. We changed a lot of things while we were shooting, which you should never do in stop-motion animation. With this, it was a much smoother ship, so I wasn't getting sent the scratch reels of things.” ShouldSongFiveChangedAddConvincedShipsShootingScratchesAnimation Author:John August
“Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.” ImportantEndsTodayAmericaSongHappenedRocksChangedFolksRock And RollEmanateFolk Songs Author:John Lennon
“Fly Away changed my life. There are certain songs that do. When I won the Grammy, I was in Paris. I sort of forgot about it.” CertainSongChangedParisChanged My LifeFly AwayGrammy Author:Lenny Kravitz
“Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.” MindFirstsPlayWantedSongChangedHarmonicas Author:Paul McCartney
“Well technology has changed a lot of things, making it possible for just about anyone to make music. But not everybody is a songwriter, so that puts me in a completely different ballpark than the other DJs out here that are writing and producing tracks. I don't stop at tracks, I try to complete the whole package with the song. So working at that level has put me in a completely different place.” WritingTryingWellsDifferentWholeSongLevelsTechnologyChangedTrackSongwritersPackagesDifferent PlaceDjsBallparks Author:Frankie Knuckles
“Country Music has always changed for the times, if you listen to the recordings from the 50's to 60's to 70's, to now, the message is still there, basic down to earth songs about real people, it the music that's been updated. Some of it I like, but still prefer the traditional sound.” PeopleIfsStillsRealCountryEarthSongSoundChangedMessagesTraditionalDown To Earth Author:Mark Chesnutt
“The Replacements definitely changed my life, I think they're just amazing. The thing that blew me away [a band like that] is that you'll get into a band from hearing one interesting song and then you'll realise that you've got seven or eight albums to listen to afterwards and every single one of them is a great record. The Replacements definitely changed my life.” ThinkingSongInterestingRecordsChangedBandSevenAlbumsEightHearingRealisingChanged My LifeReplacements Author:Ryan Jarman
“So, it just seemed like it happened naturally. We nailed our live show to some extent in a year or about a year and a half, maybe just a year of playing songs pretty much around L.A. then we went and scheduled a mini-tour up-state on the West Coast and that's when the whole Rough Trade [Records] thing started happening and from there, things just happened so quick. It changed really quickly.” YearsStatesWholeShowsSongHalfRecordsHappenedChangedHappeningsTradeWestRoughCoastWest Coast Author:Theresa Wayman
“We haven't started playing it live yet but we're going to. And then 'Warpaint' is a song that's really, really close to me because it's actually - we've had that song for many years now and it's changed so many times, it's been through every reincarnation of our band with every drummer, with sometimes with me playing drums, it was when we were a three-piece, every incarnation of the band that we've had we have played that song.” YearsSometimesSongThreePiecesHavensChangedBandReincarnationIncarnationDrummerPlaying Drums Author:Theresa Wayman
“Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, "I could sing that song. I've got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs; it is actually important to do songs they're familiar with. Also, I love those songs. In a way, I think I've changed people's perceptions of what a cabaret show like this could be.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayImportantDifferentShowsSongAudienceChangedPerceptionFamiliarDifferent WaysClicksI've ChangedCabaret Author:Alan Cumming
“I think one of the biggest things that's changed in terms of the rapport with the crowd is that now crowds come to hear our songs. We're getting closer and closer to an artist performance.” ThinkingArtistSongTermChangedPerformancesCrowdsRapport Author:A-Trak
“There's an interesting story around that ["Heaven Without a Gun"], because the girl I was dating at the time got into a bike accident and couldn't make it into the studio, and the gentleman Dave Hamlin who worked on this record along with Ohad sort of took it, rearranged it. Dave went and sonically changed it and changed the keys so that Andy could sing it better. All these pieces came together that suddenly displayed that the song was meant for Andy [Kim] to sing. And he always said, "I'll never understand it, but I'll sing it with all my heart."” HeartSaidStoriesTogetherSongGirlHeavenInterestingRecordsPiecesChangedKeysMy HeartGunDatingStudiosAccidentsGentlemanBikeDaveKimInteresting Stories Author:Kevin Drew
“I even have some stories of people telling me how that song has changed their life, how it got them through hard times, how it saved their life when they were on the verge of thinking of doing the worst. That just really amazes me, that that movie [Romeo + Juliet] and that part in the movie are still having a huge effect on people's lives today.” PeopleThinkingStillsHardStoriesTodaySongWorstEffectsChangedHugeSavedHard TimesLive For TodayVergeJulietRomeo JulietThrough Hard Times Author:Quindon Tarver
“I changed my hopes to being a singer [when I was a child] and sat around with my hair in my face droning Mac Davis songs. Writing was sort of a last stand. Come to think of it, it was the only "talent" I had that anyone asked for more of.” ThinkingWritingChildrenLastsFacesSongTalentChangedHairSingersSatMacsLast Stand Author:Elizabeth Crook
“I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got a good idea for a song. And I sang him the first verse that I had written, and I said it's called "Because You're Mine." And he said, "I Walk The Line" is a better title, so I changed it to "I Walk The Line."” WritingFirstsSaidIdeasNightSongLinesWalksWrittenChangedMinesTitlesTexasGood IdeasVersesOne Night Author:Johnny Cash
“The concept of what I want to do as an artist has not changed at all. When I was seven years old, I fell in love with writing songs and knew I wanted to make music and play it for a lot of people. Back then I said I wanted to heal people with music and bring them together. I called my music, "PAZZ," which means pop and jazz. To this day, all of those things still ring crystal clear.” PeopleWantWritingYearsMeanSaidStillsPlayWantedTogetherArtistSongClearChangedConceptsJazzSevenPopsRingsHealThis DaySeven YearsCrystalsWriting Songs Author:Grace Kelly
“The music business has changed so much. Collaborations are all over the Internet. The young people are keeping the old school alive. A lot of them run out of ideas so they grab these songs that we've had out for 50 years and bringing them back and making people rich again. That's a nice thing. A lot of artists don't have incomes after a certain time in their life because nobody's is buying the songs. This revival of their music has taken a lot of writers out of the poor house.” PeopleYearsIdeasRunningSchoolYoungArtistCertainSongHousePoorRichTakenNiceAliveChangedInternetIncomeBuyingCollaborationRevivalMusic BusinessNice ThingsOld School Author:Dutch Robinson