“It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I’ve done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they’re always poems first.” WritingFirstsLongArtDoneEnoughSongPaintingLong TimePursueEnough TimeHad Enough Author:Jason Newsted
“To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.” ShouldFirstsWellsLooksKindSongInsightPopsPlentyPop Song Author:Jason Newsted
“The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.” PeopleWritingYearsFirstsJobsArtistSongHalfFourClaimsStudiosSandwichesElevenWriting SongsSubwayHalf A YearProcessors Author:Frank Ocean
“One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.” PeopleYearsFirstsWholeBigsSongFiveGroupsFrontsFirst TimeCriminalsSuitsFive YearsSmoothGlovesKindergartenFive Year OldsBlazersFedoras Author:Chance the Rapper
“I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible.” ThinkingFirstsSongTerribleSongwriters Author:Graham Russell
“I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I'm trying to say and I'll think about that for a couple of days until it's all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it'll just fall out. But the song's kind of all ready there in my head.” ThinkingTryingFirstsKindCharacterStoriesSongFallReadyCoupleInstrumentsLockedScenarios Author:Graham Russell
“When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side."” FirstsKidsSongSidesWalksReedsFavorite SongWild Side Author:Michael Rapaport
“Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll be on the charts for the first time since 1972, I said, what time, where?” IfsFirstsSaidSongFirst TimeRelease Author:Nancy Sinatra
“First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song "Mama Says".” ThinkingKnowsFirstsPlayWholeStoriesFilmSongTeacherDramaMusicalJeansBeltsMamaFootloose Author:Miles Teller
“My biggest advice for girls - and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger - is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.” FirstsWantedSongGirlWishKnownAdviceSkinsLike MeObsessedThickThick Skin Author:Kate Voegele
“My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.” WritingFirstsSongRecordsWrittenTvsFirst TimeUniversalAlbumsBusPromotingLiving OnWriting SongsPersonal Experiences Author:Kate Voegele
“Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do in these areas.' As I start looking around me, looking at things in ways that I can become helpful, starting at the first thing, water. Something as simple as water.” WayFirstsWellsI CanHelpingSongWaterCan DoSimpleAreasStartingRapHelpfulRap Song Author:Jay-Z
“When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world.” WorldFirstsEnoughProblemSongAngry Author:Michael Franti
“My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.” KnowsFirstsLittlesMadeImportantKidsSongBandSingingLittle KidFavorite Bands Author:Chris Cornell
“It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.” KnowsWritingFirstsSongHeard Author:Rico Love
“The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.” FirstsSongInspireChordsProgression Author:Black Francis
“Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away?” FirstsMayStillsSongSkyColorSpringWingsSpeedFlightSouthernChillBlastHueBluebird Book:Poetical works Source: Poetical works
“The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. I don't mean sad. Melancholy is sort of a comfort. Melancholy has a sort of beauty to it. This attracts me to every other form of art.” FirstsMeanArtRealFormSongEmotionEmotionalComfortMelancholyBeing Real Author:Keren Ann
“Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled song? No wonder the bird has become the symbol for happiness. Before the farmer begins to plough the wet earth, often while snow is still on the ground, this hardy little minstrel is making himself very much at home in our orchards and gardens while waiting for a mate to arrive from the South.” FirstsLittlesStillsHomeEarthSongWaitingWonderSpringBirdGardenSouthSnowWelcomeSymbolsFarmersMatesWetHardyOrchardBluebirdMinstrels Author:Neltje Blanchan
“Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.” FirstsMovingSongRecordsGuitarProducersBassConstantly Moving Author:Noel Gallagher
“People wonder why there seems to be no meaning in life. Meaning does not exist a priori. There is no meaning existing in life; one has to create it. Only if you create it will you discover it. It has to be invented first. It is not lying there like a rock, it has to be created like a song. It is not a thing, it is significance that you bring through your consciousness.” PeopleIfsFirstsDoeSeemsMotivationalLyingSongConsciousnessWonderRocksMeaning Of LifeSignificanceMeaning LifeLife Means Author:Rajneesh
“In the year 2525, that song will be even less popular than when it first came out.” InspirationalYearsFirstsSong Author:Garry Shandling
“I took a lot time to do the first album, and I was really happy about that album. I co-wrote the songs and it was a learning process. When I was working on that album I realized, for the first time, that I could write my own songs.” WritingFirstsSongProcessMy OwnFirst TimeAlbumsI RealizedLearning ProcessReally Happy Author:Tove Styrke
“When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.” WantFirstsEndsLastsSongOrderRecordsJourneySticksMapsListenersSequencing Author:Dave Grohl
“When I was first writing, I used to sit at the piano and play songs - I'd write one or two a night. It was my hobby. At some point, it then became a process that was mainly done within the context of the studio, and writing became part of the recording process.” WritingFirstsTwoDonePlayUsedNightSongProcessStudiosPianoHobbies Author:Kate Bush
“What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?” LifeFirstsSongOur LivesNotesSolemnSuccessionLife DeathPrelude Author:Alphonse de Lamartine
“None of us lie or guard our secrets when we sing, and India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn't enough.” FirstsKindEnoughLyingSongTurnsNationsLove IsSecretCryIndiaSingersFirst Love Book:Shantaram: A Novel Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“Songs start with my bringing in the basic riffs for what you might call a verse and a chorus, an A and a B part...whatever. And sometimes a C and even a D. That's kind of the easy, or at least easier part. The hard part is finding that special, perfect way to order things - how many times to do A before B and back and how the second verse differs from the first. That's all we got.” WayFirstsKindSometimesHardMightSongOrderEasyPerfectSpecialEasierFindingsVersesChorus Author:David First