“Music exists when rhythmic, melodic or harmonic order is deliberately created, and consciously listened to, and it is only language-using, self-conscious creatures ... who are capable of organizing sounds in this way, either when uttering them or when perceiving them. We can hear music in the song of the nightingale, but it is music that no nightingale has heard.” WaySelfSongOrderLanguageSoundMusicHeardCreaturesCapableConsciousSelf ConsciousNightingales Book:Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation Source: Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation
“One of the things that I try to be conscious about in crafting a song is the concept of bringing it home. I like to bring it somewhere familiar, someplace that people feel it's resolved, it's settled.” PeopleFeelsTryingHomeSongConsciousConceptsFamiliar Author:Carole King
“I mean that's something we're very conscious of when writing. Tempos are very important. Like "Oh we can't play the song too fast because people aren't going to feel it." There's a pulse to a song. You can't play it too slow. We're always trying to find the perfect tempo.” PeopleFeelsWritingTryingMeanImportantPlaySongPerfectConsciousPulseAlways TryingTempo Author:Tony Palermo
“Whenever I start working on a song, I immediately try to forget everything, to empty my head. I try to approach it like,“This is the first time I've ever played a guitar. What am I going to do?”. That's one way of getting straight through the conscious mind into the subconscious layer where the true creative spirit lies.” WayTryingMindFirstsSpiritLyingSongForgetCreativeApproachConsciousFirst TimeEmptyGuitarOne WayLayersSubconsciousConscious MindForget EverythingCreative Spirit Author:Edge
“One have our biggest challenges if making sure that we are staying true to the mission that we feel called to do, which is writing songs for the church and helping the church connect with God. While the global ministry grows and the influence has been blessed in an amazing way, we are really conscious about staying focused on the families that come into our church every weekend and making sure that we're meeting their needs for whatever season they're in.” IfsWayNeedsFeelsWritingHas BeensHelpingSongGrowsChallengesChurchInfluenceConsciousSeasonsBlessedMeetingsMissionsFocusedStayingWeekendMinistryStay FocusedWriting SongsStay True Author:Reuben Morgan
“My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My first song was not a love song, it was about smog.” FirstsSongConsciousYeahDublinSmog Author:Damien Dempsey
“I have not made many conscious efforts to "re-imagine" songs. I just let them happen the way they're going to happen.” WayMadeHappensSongEffortImagineConscious Author:Bob Weir
“That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even rap.” IfsFeelsArtistSongStruggleConsciousHip HopRapHipsHopsMy StruggleHip Hop Artist Author:SonReal
“I think I took a few stabs at writing socially conscious lyrics. I had never intended to write a song about the Gulf War, but when I wrote "Before You Hit The Floor," I didn't know what the hell was going on in the world.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWritingWarSongHellConsciousGulf War Author:Bucky Pope
“I wanted to protect the songs. I wanted to make sure I could write freely and not be self-conscious about it.” WritingSelfWantedSongProtectConsciousSelf Conscious Author:Alejandra Deheza
“I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.” SelfSongListeningSingingConsciousSelf Conscious Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that stuff, but it wasn't really conscious, I guess. When things would get more typical rock'n'roll that was my fallback to go to those kind of lyrics instead of the alternatives.” WayKindSongStuffRocksConsciousHip HopHipsAlternativesHopsRock N RollTypicalSlacker Author:Stephen Malkmus
“You know, the songs that are self-conscious or jerky, they are that way, but the other ones aren't, so that's a good thing. Some of the songs are Beck-jokey, but the others, they have heart in them.” KnowsWayHeartSelfSongConsciousGood ThingsSelf Conscious Author:Stephen Malkmus
“There's no way anyone's going to understand my own personal experiences, where the songs came from, because they're mine. But I was very conscious of leaving loads of space in the songs so that people could interpret them with their own memories, feelings, and emotions. I love the process of taking stuff away so that people could finish the songs themselves. I was hoping it'd end up being as universal as possible, even though it comes from the most personal place.” PeopleWayEndsFeelingsSongStuffProcessMemoriesMy OwnSpaceEmotionMinesConsciousUniversalLeavingLoadFeelings And EmotionsPersonal Experiences Author:Conor O'Brien
“I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.” WritingYearsSongSoundConsciousYears AgoWriting Songs Author:Paul Weller
“We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.” FirstsSelfSongConsciousSelf Conscious Author:Kanye West
“I liked his voice, rich and unself-conscious even when he forgot words and hummed to fill in the gap. What I didn't understand, I imagined, and thus it became a love song.” SongVoiceRichConsciousGaps Book:Queen of Dreams Source: Queen of Dreams
“I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part.” IfsWellsSometimesTogetherArtistSongAnswersCommonConsciousAskingAlbumsObviousCollectionsThreadCdsCommon Threads Author:David Byrne
“We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.” InspirationalWritingHeartSongChoicesConsciousnessMy HeartEqualMusicianConsciousProducersSongwritingFollow Your HeartRecogniseSinger SongwritersSamenessPower Of ChoiceChoose Wisely Author:John Denver