“Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” IfsMenShouldMindLittlesReasonFeelingsBeautifulSpiritSongCultureSpeakGrowsPerfectStudyFineOughtMethodSensesImpressionReasonableFaculty Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“My favorite method of encryption is chunking revolutionary documents inside a mess of JPEG or MP3 code and emailing it off as an "image" or a "song." But besides functionality, code also possesses literary value. If we frame that code and read it through the lens of literary criticism, we will find that the past hundred years of modernist and postmodernist writing have demonstrated the artistic value of similar seemingly arbitrary arrangements of letters.” IfsWritingYearsPastValuesSongHundredCriticismLettersMethodMy FavoriteMessArtisticCodeRevolutionaryDocumentsArrangementsLensesArbitraryLiterary CriticismEncryptionFunctionalityMp3 Author:Kenneth Goldsmith
“I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.” HardSongMethodActresses Author:Joni Mitchell
“It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.” WritingLittlesSongMethodAwkwardness Author:Erin McKeown
“I guess it's just my job to somehow balance knowing that every song is going to come differently and be different, but also know that, on the other hand, I am a songwriter and I am a craftsman, and I do have a craft and a technique and a method. So I need to balance the technique and the method.” KnowsNeedsDifferentHandsJobsSongKnowingBalanceMethodTechniqueCraftsSongwritersCraftsman Author:Brett Dennen
“When I would create a dance, I wouldn't have the luxury that ballet people do when they take a piece of music and impose a dance upon it. What we did in motion pictures was have a song and within that song try to elaborate. My usual method was to do what a writer does: get a plot.” PeopleTryingDoeSongPiecesMethodLuxuryPlotUsualBalletMotion Pictures Author:Gene Kelly
“I think, there are a couple of songs. I'm really proud of How far I'll Go. I literally locked myself up in my childhood bedroom at my parents' house to write those lyrics. I wanted to get to my angstiest possible place. So I went method on that.” ThinkingWritingWantedSongHouseParentChildhoodProudCoupleMethodLockedBedroom Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda
“I'd like to talk to Bob Marley. I'd just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don't know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them.” PeopleIfsKnowsSongAsksPowerfulBehindsGeniusMethodSimplicityBobSongwritersMarley Author:Bruno Mars
“Today, I'd like to talk to Bob Marley. I'd just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don't know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from 'Redemption Song' to 'Is This Love?' and 'I Shot the Sheriff.'” PeopleIfsKnowsTodaySongAsksPowerfulBehindsGeniusShotsMethodSimplicityRedemptionBobSongwritersSheriffsMarley Author:Bruno Mars
“The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record.” WayWritingDifferentUsedSongRecordsTypeCreatingPicksToolsMethodInstrumentsGuitarBest WayPianoAcousticsElectronicsAcoustic Guitar Author:Serj Tankian
“I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.” WayTryingSometimesSongSpeakCommunicationDrinkSpeechMethodCommunicateSupposed To BeChocolate Author:Jarvis Cocker
“I think it was Tommy who told me, 'When your song is called 'XYZ' or whatever, every line has got to make sense against your title.' He showed me little methods of proving to yourself whether the line belongs, and ways of finding out whether you were able to get more out of a line if you tried.” IfsThinkingWayLittlesAbleSongLinesProveFindingsMethodMake SenseTitlesSongwriting Author:Merle Haggard
“I would like to bring to people something like happiness. I would like to discover a method so that if I want it to rain, it will start right away to rain. If one of my friends is ill, I'd like to play a certain song and he will be cured; when he'd be broke, I'd bring out a different song and immediately he'd receive all the money he needed.” PeopleIfsWantDifferentPlayCertainSongNeededMy FriendsRainMethodIllBroke Author:John Coltrane
“I see pictures in my mind and become the character in the song as I'm writing. It's kind of method songwriting, where you're the actor in the song.” WritingMindKindCharacterSongActorsMethodSongwriting Author:Diane Warren