“I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.” ThinkingWritingArtFactsArtistSongInterestNaturalListeningGrewKingsGrew UpInspiredGuitarSongwritingWriting SongsPlaying Guitar Author:Kate Voegele
“There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing lessons'. Like, motherf**king A! I am the singer. Who do sing SONGS. It's like I never sang before; like I was - I don't know - reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing” KnowsFirstsSongReadingSoundRecordsKingsLessonsSingingSingersProseMelodyMakersReviews Author:Black Francis
“I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king.” WritingMatterSongSawsKingsNo Matter WhatSongwritingWriting Songs Author:Jakob Dylan
“No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one age and boasts of the next. Dante is worshipped at that grave to which he was hurried by persecution. Milton, in his own day, was "Mr. Milton, the blind adder, that spit his venom on the king's person"; and soon after, "the mighty orb of song." These absurd transitions from hatred to apotheosis, this recognition just at the moment when it becomes a mockery, saddens all intellectual history.” WorldPersonsMomentsAgeSongNextLanguageKingsIntellectualHatredVictimBlindGravesTreatedAbsurdRecognitionTransitionPersecutionBoastBrutalitySpitMockeryMeannessMiltonVenomBasenessOrbsApotheosisAdders Book:Literature and life, lects Source: Literature and life, lects
“People say to me, 'Do you dye your hair?' and I say, 'Well, does f**king Siouxsie Sioux? Does Bowie?'. Of course I'm going to have a decent haircut. It's one of the first things I learnt to do - get a few songs together and get your hairstyle right.” PeopleFirstsWellsDoeTogetherSongCoursesHairKingsDecentHaircutsHairstylesBowie Author:Johnny Marr
“For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe itself to the multitudes of ideas around us. While we can make atomic bombs, and dry-clean silk ties, we still don't have satisfying answers for simple questions like: Where do songs come from? Are there an infinite variety of possible kinds of cheese? How did Shakespeare and Stephen King invent so much, while we're satisfied watching sitcom reruns? Our popular answers have been unconvincing, enabling misleading, fantasy-laden myths to grow strong.” KindHas BeensStillsIdeasSongUniverseStrongGrowsSimpleAnswersFantasyModernCenturyCreationKingsInnovationInfiniteCleanMythSatisfiedVarietyTiesDryBombsSatisfyingCheeseGoogleMultitudesMisleadSilkSitcomEnablingAtomic BombMitReruns Author:Scott Berkun
“Rastafari is our king or emperor, and being a king, being an emperor you've been taught all the ways of the ancestors. With the knowledge and teachings and studying his majesty, I've learned to put all these principles and precepts into the music, so that is how it inspires me to be singin' good songs and makin' good music for the people. Natural.” PeopleWaySongNaturalPrinciplesStudyTeachingInspireTaughtKingsI've LearnedAncestorMajestyEmperor Author:Sizzla
“I was inspired by people like Joni Mitchell and Carole King and Stevie and "Storytellers." People that could really change the world with their lyric, no matter who sung the song, they had still been the source of that message. So that's what I really aim for.” PeopleWorldStillsMatterSongSourceKingsMessagesAimInspiredChanging The WorldStoryteller Author:Emeli Sande
“I love all holiday music. My two favorites would probably be Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas" and Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song." They epitomize Christmas for me. Those two recordings will never be touched. That's why I've never redone them.” TwoSongKingsHolidayTouchedChristmas Song Author:Mariah Carey
“When I first organized the King Cole Trio back in 1937, we were strictly what you would call an instrumental group. To break the monotony, I would sing a few songs here and there between the playing. I sang things I had known over the years. I wasn't trying to give it any special treatment, just singing. I noticed thereafter people started requesting more singing, and it was just one of those things.” PeopleGivingTryingYearsFirstsSongKnownBreakGroupsSpecialKingsSingingSingersOrganizedJust OneTreatmentHere And ThereMonotonyTriosSpecial Treatment Author:Nat King Cole
“What's that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I'll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.” IfsTryingWellsSongThreeHeardKingsInternetSixAlbumsAvailableAidsGhostEntitledDrsLutherPirateItunesDr Martin Luther King Author:Bo Burnham
“I had all these songs lying around. They had all these woman characters, and I thought the idea of the Woman King would be a good way to tie them all together.” WayIdeasCharacterWould BeTogetherLyingSongKingsTiesGood Way Author:Iron & Wine
“I know Busta Rhymes for about a year now and we did a song together and we got an album together which is called "Godzilla vs. King Kong", which is going to be me and Busta. That was really the first time we rocked together on stage.” KnowsYearsFirstsTogetherSongStageKingsFirst TimeAlbumsRhymeGodzillaKing Kong Author:Bone Crusher
“McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and more to the point, Viacom - is succeeding in extending a teenage life to twenty-nine or even thirty-one years old. It is about extending this market and removing any intelligent substance in the music.” YearsBigsAbleArtistSongKingsOffersSucceedTwentiesIntelligentHip HopNineHipsSubstanceThirtyHopsTeenageMcdonaldsMacsExtendingMtvRansomHip Hop ArtistTeenage LifeBig Mac Author:Chuck D
“I'm reminded of an interview Larry King had on his talk show with one of Michael Jackson's sisters. He's talking about how many millions she made on her latest record, and all of a sudden, she looks at him tearfully and says, "Larry, you know, I'm not interested in money or sales or songs. I'm a spiritual person." And I thought, "Oh my god..."” KnowsLooksPersonsMadeShowsSpiritualSongTalkingMillionsRecordsKingsInterviewsNot InterestedLarryTalk Shows Author:Werner Herzog
“When I was singing "King of the Mountain," it was a pivotal point in the show. That's the song that took us from this concert setting of individual songs into the theatrical narrative piece.” ShowsSongIndividualPiecesKingsMountainSingingSettingSettingsNarrativeConcertsTheatricalPivotal Author:Kate Bush
“The whole positioning and atmosphere of the song ["King of the Mountain"] was to build up this thunderstorm that would take us all onstage off into a story where we were suddenly in the middle of the ocean.” WholeStoriesSongMiddleKingsMountainOceanAtmosphereThunderstorm Author:Kate Bush
“When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life, come with a burst of song. When tumultuous work raises its din on all sides shutting me out from beyond, come to me, my lord of silence, with thy peace and rest. When my beggarly heart sits crouched, shut up in a corner, break open the door, my king, and come with the ceremony of a king. When desire blinds the mind with delusion and dust, O thou holy one, thou wakeful, come with thy light and thy thunder.” MindHeartHardLightDesireSongLostSidesSilenceLordBreakGraceDoorsKingsHolyMercyRaisesCornersDustDelusionShut UpShowersThunderCeremony Book:கீதாஞ்சலி: Kītāñcali Source: கீதாஞ்சலி: Kītāñcali
“I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me.” PeopleMayAgeNightSongLeftSpeakSleepPathWrittenHeardAdventureKingsTownsAgingUniversitySanityPrincessBurnedStolenMoonlightName Of The WindMinstrels Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his foes shall fall. The sword is sharp, the spear is long, The arrow swift, the Gate is strong; The heart is bold that looks on gold; The dwarves no more shall suffer wrong. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fells like ringing bells In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. -from The Hobbit (Dwarves Battle Song)” LooksHeartLongMadeSufferingSongFallStrongDarkSleepKingsBattleMountainGoldGatesHallsTallSpellsBellsDreadWormsFoeHammersHollowArrowsSpearsDwarvesDark Things Author:J. R. R. Tolkien
“The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden, His harp shall be restrung, His halls shall echo golden To songs of yore re-sung. The woods shall wave on mountains. And grass beneath the sun; His wealth shall flow in fountains And the rivers golden run. The streams shall run in gladness, The lakes shall shine and burn, And sorrow fail and sadness At the Mountain-king’s return!” RunningSongWealthLordSunFailingSadnessFailureReturnKingsSorrowMountainFlowRiversStonesShiningWaveWoodsGoldenGrassStreamsLakesSilverHallsCrownsEchoesFountainGladnessHarps Author:J. R. R. Tolkien
“The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over a cheek. You are the privileged person to whom everything is taken. The Kings of Tarshish shall bring gifts.” PersonsLongRunningEarthSongFallStarsTakenSkyTearsKingsSmellEndlessGrassCheeksPrivilegedCicadasLong Grass Book:Out of Africa Source: Out of Africa