“I believe a No. 1 song starts happening when it's believable and validating.” BelieveSongI BelieveHappeningsBelievable Author:Jake Owen
“A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I think when you find your once-in-a-lifetime love, that's what everybody's looking for.” ThinkingSongHappeningsLifetimeInspiredLife ChangingGood LifeTime LoveOnce In A Lifetime Author:Keith Urban
“The greatest love of all is happening to me.. So goes the popular song. It's a great song. It speaks to the heart, and deeply. It strikes powerfully to uplift the human spirit, at the quest for self-love and self-esteem, the pride in being alive that each of us is entitled to experience simply by being born a human being.” HumansHeartSelfSpiritSongSpeakBornHuman BeingsAliveSelf EsteemPrideSelf LoveHappeningsStrikesEsteemUpliftingQuestsEntitledHuman SpiritGreatest LovePopular Song Author:Robert J. White
“I actually hear into life - seeing everything that's occurring as a conversation with God in some form. So it really is the next song on the radio - a chance utterance of a friend on the street - it really is what's happening right now. I stop and think, 'What is life trying to tell me right now?' And "What does my soul know about this?'” ThinkingKnowsTryingDoeSoulFormSongNextChanceSeeingStreetsRight NowConversationHappeningsRadioMy SoulUtteranceWhat Is LifeConversations With God Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“When you write a show, you just never know if it will have a future or if the show will end up ever having a production, but, that doesn't mean that the songs - the best of the best songs - can't be pulled out and put on a CD. And, if the shows that they come from end up happening, then people will regard this as like a quirky little concept recording. And, if the shows don't end up happening, at least the songs will live on in some capacity.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingMeanLittlesEndsShowsSongHappeningsConceptsCapacityRegardProductionsCdsQuirkyBest Of The Best Author:Michael Patrick Walker
“I was deluding myself that the song was almost not important, but I think the real thing that was happening was almost like self-hypnosis or mediation. The guitar lick was the transcendental key that unlocked my brain. It freed me. And then it all became easy. It's funny now, because I've had times when it wasn't easy.” ThinkingImportantRealSelfSongEasyBrainKeysHappeningsGuitarReal ThingsTranscendentalMediationHypnosis Author:John Fogerty
“You're not supposed to totally know what's happening. The songs are supposed to give you clues so you can fill in the blanks.” KnowsGivingSongHappeningsClue Author:Neko Case
“I've always thought, it's the artist that write the songs and make the records. And it's our responsibility to set the tone for what's happening in the industry. And I take that seriously.” WritingArtistSongResponsibilityRecordsIndustryHappeningsTone Author:Eric Church
“I've always written songs to use music as a form of therapy or as a way to look at my obstacles or my memories from a different perspective. It's always helped me realize the grass isn't always greener and how I need to live more in the moment. My songwriting is a documentation of whatever's happening in my life at that point in time.” WayNeedsLooksDifferentMomentsUseFormSongRealizingMemoriesWrittenPerspectiveHappeningsObstaclesGrassTherapySongwritingDifferent PerspectiveGreenerDocumentation Author:Chuck Ragan
“Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and helplessness. But round about the horizon the eternal realities stand silent in their age-old longing. There shines on them already the first mild light of the radiant fulfillment to come. From afar sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, not yet discernable as a song or melody. It is all far off still, and only just announced and foretold. But it is happening, today.” FirstsStillsSelfRealityLightAgeTodaySongSoundVoiceSpaceDespairEternalHappeningsDestructionFilledLongingShiningNotesSilentRoundsNoiseFulfillmentArroganceMelodyHorizonAssuranceWeepingPipeHelplessnessRadiantAnnihilationAfarShine OnSelf Assurance Author:Alfred Delp
“The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a sort of magic glow that just happens and you can feel it happening. It just makes the songs sort of roll out.” FeelsImportantHappensSongSuccessfulMagicHappeningsMelodyIngredients Author:Paul McCartney
“I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not share it, I'm always writing songs or coming up with melodic lines on piano or guitar. It's therapy. It's always happening.” WritingMightArtistSongLinesShareHappeningsGuitarTherapyPianoVisualsWriting SongsVisual ArtSketchingVisual Artist Author:Erykah Badu
“If you have a lot of textural stuff happening in music you get called shoegaze, or whatever, and then it becomes about the sound and not about the songs.” IfsSongStuffSoundHappenings Author:Tamaryn
“I enjoy going on stage knowing that there's going to be that vulnerability and that transparency and hopefully things will be realized or accomplished or that confidence will be revealed. I think that's another element that people like about shows: in addition to hearing the songs that they love, I think there are some people who really get off on connecting with what's happening right now.” PeopleThinkingShowsSongEnjoyKnowingStageRight NowElementsHappeningsHearingHopefullyVulnerabilityAccomplishedConnectingTransparency Author:Jason Mraz
“I think when you write every song on your album - it's like having eleven or twelve children. It's hard to say I like this one song more or I like that one more. I love every song on the album. What's happening is that I'm hoping that everyone will be very satisfied. I think the single "Good Girl" will be adored by the people in the urban world and I think the "Best of Me" will be loved by people in the pop world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingChildrenHardSongGirlHappeningsAlbumsPopsSatisfiedTwelveUrbanElevenGood GirlBest Of Me Author:Chrisette Michele
“Though the inspiration for my songs almost always comes from things that are happening around me, I am definitely not always the protagonist in the songs.” InspirationSongHappeningsProtagonists Author:Thalia Zedek
“When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote about. So my first album was really all about my failed attempts to make a particular relationship work.” WritingFirstsSongLinesParticularHappeningsDirectAlbumsWriting Songs Author:Erin McKeown
“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
“It's completely unsexy [Yello, "Oh Yeah" 1985]. It does capture that weird '80s materialism and "We're gonna get it on now" vibe. But it's a very juvenile approach. It also became a weird signal for comedy, in the sense that when you heard the song, it meant comedy was happening on screen. I feel like this song was probably done in a couple of minutes in a studio.” FeelsDoeDoneSongComedyHeardMinutesCoupleApproachHappeningsYeahStudiosScreensMaterialismCaptureSignals80sJuvenile Author:Margaret Cho
“If a band isn't coming up with two to four of those when they pick up their instruments, then they have problems - even if none of them turn into a song. If that's not happening in a band, it's time for therapy or breaking up.” IfsTwoProblemSongTurnsFourBandHappeningsPicksInstrumentsTherapy Author:Travis Morrison
“The earlier stuff is more like "this is happening to me," but now there are more songs that are accusatory or something, or more declaratory. I don't know where that voice comes from, like, "I've been down the road, we've been there and done that." That's sort of like a tougher style, or a less vulnerable style.” KnowsDoneSongStuffVoiceStyleHappeningsVulnerableDown The Road Author:Stephen Malkmus
“There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.” PeopleWorldStillsSongReadyHappeningsGratefulInjusticeConcertsSo Grateful Author:Mavis Staples
“I'd have to think about it, but I was listening to this Johnny Cash song today that Tom Waits wrote for him - I think that's the story. For some reason it's a thing that sticks in my brain. He's describing this scene where he sees all these almost biblical images happening kind of in this burrow where this biblical train runs through this yard.” ThinkingKindReasonStoriesRunningTodaySongWaitingBrainListeningSceneHappeningsTrainSticksCashTomsBiblicalYardsDescribing Author:Justin Vernon
“We never really set out to talk about California on the album ['California'], it was something that we noticed that was happening about three-quarters of the way through the recording process. We were looking at which songs we thought would make the record and we realised that there was this theme coming through. I think it's just a product of being in California for as long as I have.” ThinkingWayLongSongThreeProcessRecordsProductsHappeningsAlbumsCaliforniaThemeQuartersRealised Author:Mark Hoppus
“Willow [Smith] started making music first. I was like, "My younger sister is, like, 4, and she's making all these fire songs. What's happening?" Willow was doing all these things, about to have record label deals at like the age of 6, and I was like, "I feel like I'm underachieving."” FeelsFirstsAgeSongDealsRecordsFireHappeningsLabelsRecord LabelsYounger SisterUnderachieving Author:Jaden Smith
“[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that.” WorldKindSongSurvivalHappenings Author:Van Morrison
“I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life. I also try to convey what it feels like and sounds like and smells like and looks like inside of my particular skin, to move through the world as a black American woman in her mid-twenties. Language from songs and TV shows feel integral because it helps to create the environment and describe the full picture.” WorldFeelsTryingLooksHelpingShowsFeelingsMovingArtistSongLanguageSoundBlackEnvironmentParticularTvsHappeningsSkinsTwentiesSmellStatementsTv ShowsAmerican WomanMessiness Author:Morgan Parker
“When I can see someone that's posting the way that they're thinking about what's happening in the world right now or even art that they've created, it inspires me to do the same. It makes me turn off my phone and go paint a painting or go hike a mountain or go record a song. Those are the kind of things that social media helps me do. But it also can make me sit in my room and not do anything.” ThinkingWorldWayKindArtI CanHelpingSongTurnsSocialRoomsRecordsMediaInspirePaintingRight NowMountainHappeningsPaintPhonesSocial MediaHelp MeTurn Off Author:Willow Smith
“Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage, singing my songs in a glittering costume. And that happened and is still happening. I have to remember that this is what I wished for and be grateful because there are 500 other girls right behind me that are ready to snatch it up.” StillsWantedRememberSongGirlBehindsHappenedStageReadySingingHappeningsGratefulBe GratefulCostumesOther Girl Author:Katy Perry
“And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later years, and tell of happening that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills.” MenYearsMayLittlesLongAgeSongVoiceDarkWonderGoneCenturyHappeningsMarkCleanForgottenLipsHeavyHillsFragileRollingInkDead ManFragile Things Author:Lord Dunsany