“Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.” TogetherSongLordShareFiguresMy FamilyGuitarAcousticsAcoustic GuitarInstrumentation Author:Daniel Smith
“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
“But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.” PeopleWayYearsSongFamilyVirtueBloodMy FamilyFaultsTongueMy WayAshamedDeniedFamily LifeDialect Author:Agnes Smedley
“I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 and I wrote my first song shortly after. Music was really important in my family. My grandma was a professional violin player and my parents first met when my dad was giving my mom guitar lessons.” GivingFirstsImportantSongParentPlayerMomDadLessonsMetsMy FamilyGuitarMy DadMy MomPianoViolinGrandmaMy GrandmaPiano Lesson Author:Eric Hutchinson
“I was raised really strongly on The Beatles; they were huge in my family, my parents loved them, and they used to quiz me on who was singing which song, and we'd play certain records for certain events, and things like that. So I mean, they were sort of my introduction to pop music.” MeanPlayUsedCertainSongParentRecordsEventsHugeSingingMy FamilyRaisedPopsIntroductionPop MusicQuiz Author:Eric Hutchinson
“I love "Frosty the Snowman." My family and I like to go on a sleigh ride with a two-horse sleigh in Aspen, so we all scream different songs at the top of our lungs. I hope it doesn't scare the horses.” TwoDifferentSongGoes OnMy FamilyHorseScareScreamLungsSnowmanAspensSleighs Author:Mariah Carey
“I watch movies and hang with my family, go shopping, love to cuddle with my dog, Happy, & write songs with my guitar!” WritingSongWatchesDogMy FamilyGuitarShoppingMy DogWatch Movie Author:Megan Lee
“My feeling is that, and I've been writing about my family over the years, although it might make them feel uncomfortable, people generally like to be written about. If I've written a song about the family, they enjoy being mentioned in the songs. Nobody's confronted me and said 'don't write any songs about me.” PeopleIfsFeelsWritingYearsSaidFeelingsMightSongEnjoyWrittenMy FamilyUncomfortableBeing Me Author:Loudon Wainwright III
“My family life, my adoption - it could be related to the songs, but I think the songs are deeper than that. They're not just about this experience.” ThinkingSongMy FamilyDeeperRelatedAdoptionFamily Life Author:Angel Olsen
“I'd work on Garbage or I'd edit a song or writing here, but I was able to do a lot of things with my family. There are things outside of Garbage, the whole band has come to realize that we need things like that. That's why we took that break. Garbage had swallowed us up and had become a full time obsession for us and we needed to escape that and reclaim our old lives.” WritingSongRealizingBreakMy FamilyObsession Author:Butch Vig
“There are videos where I would go approaching strangers and sing the songs from 'The Lion King. I would have been about four years, and I came running up to people on the beach, strangers that I chose at random and began to sing, and my family never knew where I was, they were always looking for me, trying to imagine who I was harassing this time .” PeopleTryingYearsHas BeensRunningSongFourImagineKingsMy FamilyStrangerVideoBeachLionsFour YearsLion King Author:Taylor Swift
“...for the first time in my life, a voice went off in my head:'You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs dictate exactly what you're going to do. You've taken your hands off the steering wheel, and you're going wherever the drug world takes you.' That had never changed. The feeling would well up inside of me, and no matter how much I loved my girl or my band or my friends or my family, when that siren song 'Go get high now' started playing in my head, I was off.” WorldFirstsWellsMatterFeelingsHandsHappensSongGirlVoiceTakenChangedDrugBandMy FriendsFirst TimeMy FamilyWheelsGetting HighMy GirlSirensSteeringSiren Song Author:Anthony Kiedis