“Due to people's health, and certain things that have happened to people's physicality because of their healthy, that would probably keep us from touring per se. It doesn't mean that the original band wouldn't someday do a song. But our focus is on the current band, and moving into the future, as far as touring is concerned.” PeopleMeanMovingCertainSongFocusHappenedHealthyBandConcernedOriginalsCurrentsDuesSomedayTouringPhysicality Author:Phil Ehart
“I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.” PeopleWritingWantedSongHouseNamesStuffMy OwnFiveHappenedStreetsSixIntentionAlbumsStudiosReleaseFighterWriting SongsDemosFoo Fighters Author:Dave Grohl
“Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.” PeopleWaySongFeltHappened Author:Yael Naim
“For myself music definitely informs my emotions. And I can literally play a song that will get me where I need to be emotionally. I don't have to think about the tragic things that happened in my life or the greatest things that happened in my life.” ThinkingNeedsI CanPlaySongEmotionHappenedTragic Author:Queen Latifah
“Your testimony doesn't mean anything if it is not your testimony. So every song that I write it happened at one point in my life or another.” IfsWritingMeanSongHappenedTestimony Author:Mike Willis
“It wasn't professional, but it was a few levels below the top level. I loved playing football, but my passion was always music. It didn't become a possibility to me until I started playing songs I thought were good. I think it happened during my third song. The dream to become a musician appeared in my heart, and that happened about 2010.” ThinkingHeartDreamSongPassionLevelsHappenedPossibilityFootballMy HeartOne DayMusicianThirdsMy PassionPlaying Football Author:Vance Joy
“I honestly don't remember how I wrote or did the songs. Or the sessions. They all become very much a blur. And each album is like that. It may be that there are different locations, it may take longer, shorter, or whatever, but it's always something that just happened.” MayDifferentRememberSongHappenedAlbumsHonestlyLocationSessionBlur Author:Lenny Kravitz
“I think I always thought of the guitar as the vehicle to be able to make some musical idea up. The only appeal to learning more chords was having more chords to put into songs. I never got too wrapped up in becoming technically good. So writing songs happened pretty simultaneously with learning how to play the guitar.” ThinkingWritingIdeasPlayAbleSongHappenedBecomingGuitarMusicalAppealsVehicleChordsWriting SongsLearning More Author:Jeff Tweedy
“What happened during the previews of 'Taboo' [musical] was that it was the first time I'd ever been written about as a great song-writer - I cried. I absolutely wept, because it wasn't the usual stuff like, "Oh, he was a drug addict and he did this and that..." It was really looking at the music and it was really complimentary. It was a huge thing.” FirstsSongStuffWrittenHappenedHugeDrugFirst TimeMusicalUsualCriedAddictTabooDrug AddictPreview Author:Boy George
“I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess.” SongMistakeHappenedCrazyMachinesGuitarMessFasterGigsAcousticsCover UpsImprovisingNew SongsAcoustic Guitar Author:Violante Placido
“Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.” ImportantEndsTodayAmericaSongHappenedRocksChangedFolksRock And RollEmanateFolk Songs Author:John Lennon
“You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap - and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and 'Heart Shaped Box' and stuff on 'In Utero' just happened that way.” KnowsWayHeartSometimesUsedSongThreeStuffHoursHalfHappenedBoxesNoiseCrapRehearsalNevermind Author:Dave Grohl
“It was very romantic. It's all in the song, The Ballad of John and Yoko. If you want to know how it happened, it's in there. Gibraltar was like a little sunny dream. I couldn't find a white suit -​ I had sort of off-white corduroy trousers and a white jacket. Yoko had all white on.” IfsKnowsWantLittlesDreamSongWhiteKnow HowHappenedSuitsJacketsSunnyBalladsTrousersVery RomanticCorduroy Book:Lennon Remembers Source: Lennon Remembers
“Seeing that the 97's are a democracy through and through, inevitably, some of these tons of songs I write will get vetoed. The first time that happened (and every time thereafter), I consoled myself with the thought that sooner or later I'd make a solo record” WritingFirstsSongDemocracyRecordsSeeingHappenedFirst TimeSooner Or LaterSolo Author:Rhett Miller
“Happened to be the first time we played the song live, but I absolutely for the life of me could not find the key singing and had to stop the band to find it.” FirstsSongHappenedKeysBandSingingFirst Time Author:Joe King
“I don't think you ever write a song with any intention except the song's about such and such per say ... we've never written a song and thought 'oh it'd be great if in this part this happened in the audience'.” IfsThinkingWritingSongAudienceWrittenHappenedIntention Author:Al Barr
“I sometimes suffer from insomnia and one of the first times it ever happened I was like, "I don't know what to do with myself," so I started writing a song and by morning it was finished. It was about how I couldn't sleep... I was 14.” KnowsWritingFirstsSometimesSufferingSongSleepMorningHappenedFirst TimeFinishedInsomnia Author:Eliot Paulina Sumner
“When I started‚ I faced a lot of hardships. People used to call me a Rafi clone because I used to sing my favourite singer's songs. Then 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa' happened. It gave me a good break.” PeopleUsedSongBreakHappenedSingersCall MeHardshipFavouriteFavourite SongsFavourite Singer Author:Sonu Nigam
“Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps you in the face and kisses you at the same time. Nothing else does that, with that brevity. Songs try to do it, but that's three minutes. A poem, you read it and it kind of changes your life and you don't know how it happened and you can never forget it. It's like the best song lyric, the best line from a film-everything in the world that's short and great put together.” KnowsWorldTryingKindPersonsDoeMomentsTogetherFilmFacesSongThreeLinesForgetKnow HowHappenedMinutesKissingPhotographPoetry IsNever ForgetPortraitsChanging Your LifeForget ItSlapBrevity Author:Warsan Shire
“I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but doing this project and following the news made me realize how much I miss deeper nuances in the news reporting. There's already so many quick opinions and angles being thrown in your face, so I avoided writing about things like that and tried focusing on the smaller, more seemingly insignificant things. The things you would find in the back of the newspaper or the back of your mind.” WritingMindMadeFacesSongRealizingOpinionWrittenHappenedMissingExampleProjectsNewsFollowingDeeperNewspapersParisThrownYour FaceAngleInsignificantAvoidedNuanceInsignificant ThingsNews Reporting Author:Jens Lekman
“I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves. And I really hope that people kinda go: "This happened once and I kind of like this song because I relate to it..." So if at least one of my songs over this tour's that song, then that's really cool.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindStoriesJobsSongHappenedSingersRelateSongwritersReally CoolSinger Songwriters Author:Gabrielle Aplin
“So, it just seemed like it happened naturally. We nailed our live show to some extent in a year or about a year and a half, maybe just a year of playing songs pretty much around L.A. then we went and scheduled a mini-tour up-state on the West Coast and that's when the whole Rough Trade [Records] thing started happening and from there, things just happened so quick. It changed really quickly.” YearsStatesWholeShowsSongHalfRecordsHappenedChangedHappeningsTradeWestRoughCoastWest Coast Author:Theresa Wayman
“I wish it was clear for me how it happened [stop writing songs], then maybe I could start writing again. But it's kind of an "it." It just submerged itself. Because the way I had always written was just that it came out. It just happened.” WayWritingKindSongWishClearWrittenHappenedWriting SongsSubmerged Author:Joan Baez
“I am responsible for what happened to me but if I was to stay there it is kind of a constant reminder and it is very easy.... You know the new song is called Mental.... I am not trying to hide from people that I have OCD, and I don't think that I am a completely normal person.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsTryingKindPersonsSongEasyHappenedNormalResponsibleConstantRemindersOcdNew Songs Author:Shane Bunting
“I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct.” WritingBookWantedSongHappenedLove YouDirect Author:Devendra Banhart
“I had a guitar sitting around, and it just happened to have four strings on it, and I would sit around watching TV and playing it. I ended up writing bunches of songs around four strings.” WritingSongFourHappenedTvsSittingGuitarBunchStringsSitting AroundWatching Tv Author:Bill Orcutt
“"Snapped" happened maybe like two months after I released the mixtape. I just like took a break from recording and that was the first song I wrote and recorded after the mixtape.” FirstsTwoSongBreakHappenedMonthsTwo MonthsMixtapes Author:Jhene Aiko
“Initially, in starting to pick the songs for the live show, it was really a matter of picking songs that I loved over the years. As far as the album goes, it happened very naturally.” YearsMatterShowsSongHappenedPicksStartingAlbums Author:Cheyenne Jackson