“I'm a very lucky man. I get to do the thing I want most in life, write songs and sing them for people, and ride bikes. I love my family. I love my home. I get to work with people I've admired my whole life. It's a pretty good life.” PeopleMenWantWritingWholeHomeSongLuckyMy FamilyWhole LifeGood LifeBikeLove My FamilyI Love My FamilyLucky Man Author:Lyle Lovett
“I wrote 'Lights' a long, long time ago. And I expected it to be on the album, because it was - I wrote it with 'Biff' Stannard. And he wrote every single Spice Girls song and every single pop song of the 90s, basically. So I thought, you know, I was really lucky to work with him, but I didn't think it would be a big song for some reason.” ThinkingKnowsLongReasonBigsLightWould BeSongGirlLuckyLong TimeAlbumsPopsExpectedLong Time AgoSpicesPop SongSpice Girls Author:Ellie Goulding
“Queen songs are not about the life of a rock star - they tend to be about the lives of normal people, which is why I think the songs connect so much. We're very lucky that they seemingly connect with every generation.” PeopleThinkingSongStarsGenerationsRocksLuckyNormalQueensRock StarQueen Song Author:Brian May
“I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.” PeopleEnoughSongDrugLuckyMovedRoughRough TimesMoved On Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“I start songs all the time. If I weren't so lazy, I would finish them. It's like when I have a deadline I have to. I always feel very lucky that I am forced to make records at certain times. If I was forced to make 2 records a year, I would write twice as many songs. I can't make myself finish something unless I am forced” IfsFeelsWritingYearsI CanCertainSongRecordsLuckyLazyFoldsDeadline Author:Ben Folds
“A guy said to me, 'You're so lucky. You have people like Ray Charles, Barbra Streisand and The Beatles doing your songs.' I figured out, though, the harder I work the luckier I get. The secret of anything is to surround yourself with good people if you want a good product.” PeopleIfsWantSaidGuySongSecretProductsLuckyHarderSurroundRaysGood PeopleSurround YourselfSo LuckyLucky YouStreisandSurround Yourself With Good People Author:Buck Owens
“I met Jason Mraz when he had a concert in Korea as a cover contest winner of his songs! He was super nice to even tune the guitar that I also won from the contest for me and we decided to jam to one of his hit songs, ”Lucky”. I actually don’t remember how I was able to sing because I was so nervous at the time but it would also be a dream come true if i can have the honor to share the stage with Jason Mraz one day!” IfsI CanDreamAbleRememberSongNiceShareStageHonorMetsOne DayLuckyDecidedGuitarNervousWinnerTunesConcertsContestsDreams Come TrueKoreaJamJason Author:Megan Lee
“I'm so lucky that my songs are basically my diary put to music.” SongLuckyDiariesSo Lucky Author:Taylor Swift
“I work hard and I will always work hard. But I feel very lucky with the way that it has all come together. I still have my hands and I can still write songs. I still have my body and I can still dance. I owe God so much because things are going so well.” WayFeelsWritingWellsStillsI CanHardBodyHandsTogetherSongHard WorkLucky Author:Vanessa Carlton
“Some people don't have a way of that catharsis and I do, so I'm lucky in that sense that people listen to my songs and enjoy my songs. It's a really important thing for me, it's how I channel everything. I don't really know what I'd do if I didn't write songs.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWritingImportantSongEnjoyLuckyImportant ThingsCatharsis Author:Ellie Goulding
“I've been very lucky to work with many amazing animators and directors who can interpret and extend the music I make. When it's done well, it can create extra meaning and new context for the song.” WellsDoneSongLuckyDirectorsExtrasAnimator Author:Gotye
“I am lucky to have the greatest band and when you add a symphony orchestra to the mix it brings all of my songs to a whole new level. I wouldn't say I really change what I do but, having those talented musicians behind me, along with my band, really makes the songs so much bigger and more fun to sing.” WholeSongFunLevelsBehindsLuckyBandMusicianBiggerAddOrchestraSymphonySymphony OrchestrasTalented Musicians Author:Olivia Newton-John
“That's one of my favorite songs of all time. It's so beautiful. It's an old song, sung by Nina Simone. This is the Cat Power cover. We pushed hard to get it and were lucky. It's so stunning.” HardBeautifulSongLuckyCatMy FavoriteAll TimeStunningFavorite SongNinaOld Song Author:Ellen Page
“It was a very lucky set of incidents that led to Wham! getting a record contract - although we weren't Wham! when we got the record contract. We were nothing; we were just two friends who had written a few songs.” TwoSongRecordsWrittenLuckyContractsIncidentsTwo Friends Author:George Michael
“Andrew [Ridgeley] and I had demoed a couple of our songs very cheaply, and we weren't expecting any kind of record deal. We just walked around with our demo tape, trying to find someone to give us the money to demo properly. Instead of that, we got a record contract. It was just an incredibly lucky break.” GivingTryingKindSongDealsBreakRecordsCoupleLuckyContractsExpectingTapeAndrewDemosLucky Breaks Author:George Michael
“You don't always get lucky enough to have songs that can breathe and shift meaning. But every once in a while you open up a window and something passes through. It's really nice for me when I discover those songs in my catalogue. It's one of the reasons I try not to get too specific about what my songs mean.” TryingMeanReasonEnoughSongNiceLuckyWindowBreatheReally NiceCatalogues Author:Denison Witmer
“Sometimes there's this balance: if you try to clear 10 things you'll probably get lucky and be able to clear most of them, or all of them; try to clear 20 things, in my mind there's gonna be at least one issue, maybe two - and then that's when it starts getting into either re-recording stuff, or you've got to take that song off.” TryingMindSometimesSongBalanceLucky Author:DJ Shadow
“There's a vast ecosystem for music outside of Myspace and Facebook and you need to make sure that your music is in as many hands as possible. I wanted people to share my music and tell friends about me, and if you want to rely on word of mouth, you have to make it easy for people. I got lucky because I had a few songs that hit big and got a lot of links on blog posts.” PeopleSongEasyShareLuckyMusic IsRelyWord Of Mouth Author:Jonathan Coulton
“Now I'm not going to go, "Oh my God, what are people saying about me?" I had a choice to be a student and not become a model, and becoming a doctor was another one of my dreams. I had a choice between not becoming a singer or becoming a songwriter and writing behind the scenes; nobody would have seen me writing songs for other people. I had the choice of not marrying my man; we could have just been hidden lovers, but I couldn't cope with it. I had these choices to do all these things, so I'm not going to cry over a life which has been really lucky.” PeopleMenWritingDreamSongChoicesCryStudentsLoversSceneLucky Author:Carla Bruni
“I could be inspired by something I see or something I hear and write down or send to a friend or a writer or whether I have instrumental tracks or just a couple chords recorded on my phone. If I have a couple sessions set, I'll go into the studio with the people I'm lucky enough to call my friends because I feel like I can talk to them and then suddenly our conversations turn into these songs you hear on the radio. I still don't understand how it happens but I talk about my experiences and my situations and everything and then they turn into these amazing pop songs.” PeopleWritingEnoughSongSituationCoupleLuckyInspiredTrackPop Song Author:Hailee Steinfeld