“We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.” SaidMatterLastsSufferingSongEvilOne ThingGoes OnAddDeedsCowardiceThreatenedDoomOathTreasonLast Day Book:The Silmarillion Source: The Silmarillion
“I don't think I've ever gone on stage to be an asshole. I know one thing, from the past, and that's that my intentions always began in a pure way. I really want to just try and play the songs.” ThinkingKnowsWayWantTryingPlayPastSongGoneOne ThingStagePureIntention Author:Ryan Adams
“I got on the phone with the president of my label and I said, "Obviously, I write songs in a lot of styles and play a lot of different kinds of music. We're getting toward the end of our business collaboration. If you could envision a record that you wanted to hear from me, what kind of record would it be?" It wasn't like asking him to fill an order, it was really just a conversation. For all the things I'd ever asked him, this was one thing I'd never asked, and I don't know why. So I was curious. And the thing that he was most interested in hearing was a solo record.” IfsKnowsWritingKindSaidDifferentEndsPlayWantedSongOrderPresidentRecordsOne ThingStyleConversationAskingPhonesHearingCuriousLabelsCollaborationDifferent KindsSoloDifferent Kinds Of Music Author:Ryan Adams
“Laughter, song, and dance create emotional and spiritual connection; they remind us of the one thing that truly matters when we are searching for comfort, celebration, inspiration, or healing: We are not alone.” MatterInspirationMotivationalSpiritualSongHealingOne ThingEmotionalComfortLaughterConnectionsCelebrationNot AloneSpiritual ConnectionSong And Dance Author:Brené Brown
“In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.” WayWritingTryingFeelingsPoliticalSongLostOne ThingAbout FamilyFeeling Lost Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.” IfsWritingMatterWould BeAbleSongCareersOne ThingDrugToolsAddictionAlcoholIf I CouldSoberDrugs And AlcoholAlcohol Addiction Author:Macklemore
“There's not one thing in particular that influences my music, but I write about what I know. It's based in personal experience. That's not to say all the songs are biographical, because sometimes it's what I've seen in others' lives.” KnowsWritingSometimesSongOne ThingInfluenceParticularPersonal Experiences Author:Holly Golightly
“One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.” WantI CanSongHalfOne Thing Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“For me there's insecurity when you're releasing an album because you spend all of this time working on that one thing and then once it's done, it's done. After you put it out there to the public you never know which songs are going to work or even if the album is going to work as a whole so there is a little bit of nervousness around predicting what the numbers will be and if it's going to be well-received.” IfsKnowsWellsLittlesDoneWholeSongBitsNumbersOne ThingLittle BitAlbumsInsecurityGoing To WorkPredictingNervousness Author:John Legend
“Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes.” WritingLongDoneSongThreeOne ThingMinutesMonthsTwentiesSongwritingThree Months Author:Greg Lake
“One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially. It induces mental time travel, the same way certain songs you hear on the radio do ... the whole thing returns, an eerie feeling that I'm sure you've experienced.” WayWritingI CanWholeStoriesFeelingsCertainSongFoundEnjoyCan DoMy OwnNovelOne ThingReturnRadioTime TravelEerieRereading Author:Philip K. Dick
“The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work.” WritingYearsHardLastsArtistSongSuccessfulOne ThingHard WorkTenPaidPsychologicalI've LearnedRoller CoasterCoastersThings I've LearnedSuccessful Artists Author:Enrique Iglesias
“Records are one thing, and obviously, without hit songs, you don't have the opportunity to do your shows. But my live show has always been my selling tool.” ShowsSongOpportunityRecordsOne ThingToolsSelling Author:Jason Aldean
“I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.” TryingJobsSongAudienceOne ThingVery GoodDrunkUncomfortableGood Job Author:J Tillman
“You know...sometimes I'll be looking out at the audience and I'll be in the middle of a song, and I'll just stop dead. I'll look out at them, and think what is this... There's one thing that keeps me doing it though, I really love it, I believe in it.” ThinkingKnowsBelieveLooksSometimesSongI BelieveAudienceOne ThingMiddleI Believe In Author:Steven Tyler
“Everything comes from one thing, everything comes from the Spirit. Jazz would not exist had it not been for gospel music, the blues would not exist had it not been for spiritual blues, which goes back to slave songs our fore fathers were singing while they were out in the field. So it's all one continuous growth from one group of people. Of course jazz now is played by various cultures and colors around the world. But the stimulus is One Voice.” PeopleWorldSpiritualSpiritSongCultureCoursesFatherGrowthVoiceOne ThingGroupsFieldsColorSingingJazzSlaveVariousAround The WorldStimulusGospel MusicContinuous Growth Author:Ramsey Lewis
“I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song.” SongReadingOne ThingConcepts Author:Tommy Lee
“When somebody asks me "What are your comic books about?" or "What are your songs about?" there is no answer and I feel like an idiot not having an answer, like I don't know what I am making. I really do know what I'm making, but it's not one thing, it's everything I like, and I see no reason to leave out any of that.” KnowsFeelsBookReasonSongAsksAnswersOne ThingComicIdiotAsk MeNo ReasonComic Book Author:Jeffrey Lewis
“It's one thing having a great song, but I think for me if you take it to the next level... say you had a guitar and a vocal, and the song was amazing but the vocalist wasn't that great and it just was a guitar and vocal acoustic track, switching that to something like an amazing voice singing the exact same song with the instrumentation being really nice and lush or unique in some way and interesting and diverse... I think it's all about the instrumentation and textures in the sound.” IfsThinkingWaySongNextSoundVoiceInterestingLevelsNiceOne ThingUniqueSingingGuitarTrackBeing RealDiverseVocalTextureReally NiceAcousticsNext LevelSwitchingLushVocalistInstrumentationVoice Singing Author:Flume