“When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song...With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A.” PeopleMenKindFacesSongNamesCollegeNeededCallingDecidedMadMovedVideoCardsThemeLinksTwistsMad MenBusiness Card Author:Allison Williams
“I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and think about writing songs. It's not like that anymore, needless to say.” ThinkingWritingRememberSongMorningCollegeWake UpWriting Songs Author:Josh Turner
“People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing.” PeopleKnowsWritingKindWantedSchoolCertainSongClassNovelCreativeRocksCollegeBandUniversityBarsRock And RollCreative WritingGreat AmericanFraternityTop 10SyracuseClasses In School Author:Lou Reed
“I basically try not to waste any lines in any of my songs, and I think the witty phrases and funny lyrics I have bring a smarter sound to college hip-hop.” ThinkingTryingSongSoundLinesCollegeWasteHip HopWittyHipsPhrasesHopsSmarter Author:Mike Stud
“I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter. It came to me slowly after college.” WritingWantedSongCollegeMusicianSingersSongwriters Author:Brett Dennen
“Back in college, when I got kicked out of school, I was still in school, I'd just written the song that got me my record deal. If I hadn't gotten kicked out of school I wouldn't be where I am now. Three months after that, I got my record deal and the rest is history.” IfsStillsSchoolSongThreeDealsRecordsWrittenCollegeMonthsThree Months Author:Brian McKnight
“It's was all the internet. I started writing songs in high school, right about the time of the onset of Napster. I went to college in Dallas, and when I'd get back from class I'd have fans emailing me from different areas of the country asking when the album was going to be out and when I was going on tour. It was crazy, because I didn't even consider myself a professional musician.” WritingDifferentCountrySchoolSongCrazyCollegeInternetMusicianHigh School Author:Graham Colton
“Bloody Hammer is a screw capitalism song about college kids banging hammers on top of the roof.” KidsSongCollegeCapitalismBloodyRoofScrewsHammersBanging Author:Roky Erickson
“We kind of just got more mature and more realistic with what we're doing. We kinda said, "We quit our jobs and we quit college to do this, and we're going to be playing these songs every day just about, y'know, on a stage... so let's write songs that we're never gonna get sick of playing." Songs that aren't just gonna follow a trend of what's going on right now, y'know?” KnowsWritingKindSaidJobsSongStageCollegeRight NowSickQuittingMatureTrendsRealistic Author:Jordan Buckley
“I did it a little bit in college, but now I've been doing it more. But yeah, it's not, I think you can definitely have a sense of humour about it. Like a lot of the time I'll finish my set with 'Sandstorm' by Darude - do you know that song? That's a funny song. People also go apeshit when you play it. But at the same time, it's not like the whole thing is a joke.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLittlesPlayWholeSongBitsCollegeHumourLittle BitJokesYeahDo You KnowSandstormsFunny Song Author:Chris Baio
“Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going.” WritingStoriesSongCollegeDecidedKeep GoingShort StoryWriting Songs Author:Avey Tare
“Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction.” YearsFirstsRememberSongLanguageFictionCollegeMovedSurfaceSolomonPower Of Language Author:Barack Obama
“I didn't even know the industry of songwriting existed. I thought everybody sang songs and they were only singing the songs that they wrote. So after I found out about songwriting in college, I was like, "Okay, I want to do that."” KnowsWantSongFoundCollegeIndustrySingingOkaySongwriting Author:PJ Harvey