“I feel like a lot of the singer-songwriters in my genre and in my generation have gotten more and more snooty about covering other people's songs. They believe that creativity is the intersect of expression.” PeopleFeelsBelieveSongCreativityGenerationsExpressionSingersGenreSongwritersCoveringMy GenerationSinger Songwriters Author:Brandi Carlile
“I'm feeling more and more thoughts that aren't songs, just reflections. I'm always been very shy and in some ways a prisoner in one language and I feel that the liberation of creativity has to be in all senses. So I've been deciding to publishing something very simple but very small at the same time, nothing egocentric.” WayFeelsFeelingsSongLanguageSimpleCreativityReflectionSensesLiberationShyPrisonerPublishingEgocentric Author:Ana Tijoux
“Being singer is different than being an actor, where you call up sources from your own experience that you can apply to whatever Shakespeare drama you're in. But an actor is pretending to be somebody, a singer isn't. And that's the difference. Singers today have to sing songs where there's very little emotion involved. That and the fact that they have to sing hit records from years gone by doesn't leave a lot of room for any kind of intelligent creativity.” YearsKindLittlesDifferentFactsTodaySongActorsDifferencesRoomsEmotionCreativityGoneRecordsSourceInvolvedDramaIntelligentSingersPretendingYears Gone By Author:Bob Dylan
“I can't wait to be a mom and a wife, and explore that phase of life. And also see how it affects and influences my song writing and creativity.” WritingI CanSongWaitingCreativityWifeInfluenceMomPhasesPhases Of Life Author:Tristan Prettyman
“I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it.” WritingSongCreativityElementsImprovising Author:Jamie Lidell
“The first splurge of creativity is kind of free, and the last 30 percent is painstakingly hard work, but it's good to light a fire and make it public and create that expectation. It's become part of the writing process, really, a way to ask the audience what they think, how they think it's going. I can't write songs in a vacuum.” ThinkingWayWritingFirstsKindI CanHardLightLastsSongAsksProcessCreativityAudienceFireHard WorkExpectationsPercentWriting ProcessVacuums Author:Andrew Bird
“Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to something more populist in terms of sing-alongs or guitar songs with a message.” WantPoliticalSongTermCreativityIssuesSacrificeInvolvedMessagesMusicianEnvironmentalGuitarActivismGet InvolvedPopulistEnvironmental IssuesPolitical Activism Author:Eyvind Kang
“I've never written a song about DNA or anything that I work on. But I just think that DIY aspect, and the creativity and the belonging and acceptance is what drew me in.” ThinkingSongCreativityWrittenAcceptanceAspectBelongingDnaDiy Author:Milo Aukerman
“I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where a song will not be a good song until it has a high level of creativity in writing and performance. In other words, in order to be popular, songs will have to meet these high standards.” WritingBelieveWholeSongOrderI BelieveLevelsCreativityStandardsPerformancesDefinitionsPopsPop MusicHigh LevelPopular SongHigh Standards Author:Nina Simone
“I really like and singing, and songwriting and producing. It depends on the song and the mood and who I'm working with, what the song is about and where it came from, any number of things affect the levels of creativity. I try not to do too much delineating with my art. Really, it's art, so for me I don't have a most, I just really enjoy my entire process.” TryingArtSongEnjoyCreativitySingingMoodSongwriting Author:Lalah Hathaway
“It used to kind of upset me when I'd be working on a part in my hotel room, and I'd get an idea for a song and find myself on the guitar for an hour when I should be working on my lines. But I've discovered that when I start to shake up my creativity it wants to be expressed in all kinds of different ways. They all kind of inform each other.” KindDifferentSongHoursCreativityAll KindsUpsetHotel Author:Jeff Bridges
“None but ourselves can free our minds.” LifeInspirationalMindInspirationSongFreedomMusicCreativitySlaverySlaveOne LoveRelianceHippieFreedom Of ThoughtMusic LoveSinger SongwritersNonconformityPopular SongReggaePower Of MusicJamaicaIndependent ThoughtIndependent ThinkingMusic LifeThink For YourselfMusic And LifeJamaicansReggae MusicLive MusicLove FreedomAtomic EnergyFreedom And PeaceLive LoveConformity And IndividualityFree Your MindSweet MusicRastaAbolition Of SlaveryHippiMental SlaveryMind FreeMusic And LoveJamaican MusicMusic And HealingMusic HealingLove And FreedomLive Love LifeMind FreedomFree Music Author:Bob Marley
“We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.” WarTogetherSongBornCreativityListeningSoldierRadioCriticalStationsVietnamVietnam WarCoverageRadio StationsCompilation Author:Joni Mitchell
“Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I think she's dating for creativity. So let's get her off the market and put her in dating detox. If she really wants love, she has to stop writing music about them.” IfsThinkingWantWritingGuySongCreativityDatingBreakupWriting Music Author:Patti Stanger
“It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.” WayMadeDifferentDreamSongDifferencesAttitudeCreativityUniqueAlbumsComing OutMy AttitudeNashvilleMutts Author:Shania Twain