“I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.” WaySongListeningHabitBirdBest WayPeculiarGave Up Book:Audubon and His Journals Source: Audubon and His Journals
“A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits” MindWellsDoeReasonFeelingsSongMoralGreaterEffectsProduceHabitWarmStrikesConvinceBalladsAlterations Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world." Or the pop thing of: "Hey, look at me, I'm sexy."” PeopleThinkingWorldShouldLooksPersonsSongPoorHabitSexyPopsHeySensitiveLook At MeCruel WorldSensitive PersonPoor Me Author:Robert Wyatt
“Unfortunately for humanity, I've gotten into the habit of providing my own closing music for shows by singing a song and playing the ukulele.” ShowsSongHumanityMy OwnHabitSingingProvidingClosingUkulele Author:John Hodgman
“I want people to get out of that nasty habit of needing a label. Every genre for each song is different.” PeopleWantDifferentSongHabitLabelsGenreNasty Author:SZA
“The universe is in the habit of making beauty. There are flowers and songs, snowflakes and smiles, acts of great courage, laughter between friends, a job well done, the smell of fresh baked bread. Beauty is everywhere.” WellsDoneJobsSongUniverseFlowerHabitLaughterSmellBreadWell DoneSnowflakeJob Well Done Author:Matthew Fox
“I instinctively want to create pop songs and I think it's really good to challenge that, otherwise it becomes a habit.” ThinkingWantSongChallengesHabitPopsPop Song Author:Gwenno
“I'd always believed that any song worth singing is worth putting harmony on. When it comes time for the harmonies to come in, I will move to my left because my brother and I always used to use one microphone, and so you had to share the mic. And, even today, I will move over to the left to give the harmony room, knowing in my mind that there's no harmony standing on my right. But it's just old habits are hard to break.” GivingMindTodayMovingSongBreakShareBrotherHabitSingingHarmonyMy BrotherAlways Believe Author:Charlie Louvin
“When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar, they sound convincing. It's important for me to not pursue those ideas, because I've already done them, but to find ideas that are different and feel strange to write and disconcerting to write.” WritingImportantDifferentDoneSongFallCreativeStrangeHabitFamiliarConvincing Author:Nick Cave
“Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.” LoveSongLove IsHabitCommitmentDebtInspirational LoveSweet LoveWitch Of Portobello Author:Paulo Coelho