“This music has been around since before the beard on Moses. I happed to do it very well and I happen to have a lot of groovy songs that I know people are going to dig. I know more about it than you do.” PeopleKnowsWellsHas BeensHappensSongBeardMosesGroovy Author:George Thorogood
“Most of my songs are pretty sketchy. There's not a lot of bass sections. I don't write big bridges. Sometimes I'll try. But it's hard for me to focus that way, because I always think it's more interesting to just see what will happen next.” ThinkingWayWritingTryingSometimesHardBigsHappensSongNextInterestingFocusBridgesSectionsBassSketchy Author:Ryan Adams
“By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time when they are little, but then something happens. It's not that we stop singing. I still sang. I just made sure I was alone when I did it. And I made sure I never did it accidentally. That thing we call 'bursting into song.' I believe this happens to most of us. We are still singing, but secretly and all alone.” PeopleBelieveLittlesMadeStillsHappensKidsSongI BelieveFrontsSingingOrdinaryThings HappenGradesAll AloneBurstingOrdinary Things Author:Lynda Barry
“Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.” PeopleMatterHappensSongResponsibilityFrontsNo Matter WhatIntensity Author:Chris Cornell
“I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.” LooksRealityHappensSongPartyThings Happen Author:R. Kelly
“I don't take off as many days as most other producers and songwriters, so I'm working every single day, and I do songs every day. So it's just about finding time, scheduling, getting in and cutting the records. I make it happen and that's the name of the game. It's no excuses - you gotta figure it out.” HappensSongGamesNamesRecordsCuttingFiguresFindingsExcuseProducersSongwritersMake It HappenNo ExcusesSchedulingExcuse You Author:Rico Love
“That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.” WritingMightHappensSongTwentiesSticksThirtyFortySignificanceChurning Author:Mick Ralphs
“One of my favorite things as an engineer is watching a band get comfortable in the studio and getting a great take. Like, they're playing the song, warming up, and then suddenly, the communication really happens and everybody's really in the song, and they nail it, and then that's the take.” HappensSongCommunicationBandComfortableMy FavoriteStudiosEngineersNailsFavorites ThingsWarming Up Author:J. Robbins
“I can sort of will that stuff to happen to me if I put myself in the right headspace. Then I can actually get to a space where it won't just be one song that comes through, but a series of them.” IfsI CanHappensSongStuffSpaceSeries Author:Ryan Adams
“Don't think. The worst songs I've ever written happen when I think.” ThinkingHappensSongWrittenWorst Author:Neil Young
“I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing five songs a week; now, I occasionally write a song. But it's an exciting moment when it happens!” WritingMomentsHappensSongSexCareersFiveWeekExcitingBlockWriter's Block Author:Loudon Wainwright III
“I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.” HappensAgeDeathSongDiesMiddleStage Author:Dolly Parton
“Esperando (Cuando Cuba Sea Libre) is probably one of the most personal songs from the new [September, 2007] CD, "90 Millas" . . . as it really speaks about the celebration, nostalgia and emotion that will happen the day Cuba is free. If we're to move forward in Cuba, we really have to have a lot of forgiveness for each other and look towards the future.” IfsLooksHappensMovingSongSpeakEmotionSeaNostalgiaMoving ForwardCelebrationSeptemberCubaCdsLibre Author:Gloria Estefan
“The song is about knowing the end result of every situation you're in, and being able to play it out in your mind and see it before it happens. It's about addiction, really, about knowing how it's all going to end up. In that sense, you're watching a movie of yourself all the time - and then you want out of that movie.” WantMindEndsPlayHappensAbleSongResultsSituationKnowingAddictionEnd Results Author:Rufus Wainwright
“As a white male in America, I have privilege. As a white male who happens to be an artist with a fan base, I have a platform to spread awareness about that privilege. However, songs about race and privilege are very difficult to A) write and B) dissect as a listener. They're heavy.” WritingHappensAmericaArtistSongDifficultWhiteRaceFansAwarenessMalesPrivilegeHeavySpreadPlatformsListeners Author:Macklemore
“I think there's a weird self-affirmation thing that happens in popular music in general. It seems like every song I hear on the radio is like, "Listen to me roar!" or "This is my fight song!"” ThinkingSelfSeemsHappensSongFightingRadioAffirmationListen To MePopular MusicSelf Affirmation Author:Conor Oberst