“I do write. I actually do want to start my music as well. My sister and I are starting a band. I've been playing a guitar for nine years, and she plays piano, and we sing together. We're going to start up something soon. I mostly am writing songs right now actually, but I would love to write a script someday.” WantWritingYearsWellsPlayTogetherSongRight NowBandGuitarStartingScriptsNinePianoSomedayMy SisterWriting SongsNine Years Author:Kaitlyn Dever
“Well, everybody's a drummer, I'll tell you that right now. Everybody knows what's right rhythmically for a song, so there were always suggestions flying my way.” KnowsWayWellsSongRight NowFlyingMy WaySuggestionsDrummer Author:Sam Fogarino
“I actually hear into life - seeing everything that's occurring as a conversation with God in some form. So it really is the next song on the radio - a chance utterance of a friend on the street - it really is what's happening right now. I stop and think, 'What is life trying to tell me right now?' And "What does my soul know about this?'” ThinkingKnowsTryingDoeSoulFormSongNextChanceSeeingStreetsRight NowConversationHappeningsRadioMy SoulUtteranceWhat Is LifeConversations With God Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“There's a band in a garage right now writing songs for an album that will do the same thing 'Nevermind' did some 20 years ago. We don't know who and where, but it will f***ing happen again. All it takes is for that storm to break.” KnowsWritingYearsHappensSongBreakRight NowBandYears AgoAlbumsStormWriting SongsGarageNevermind Author:Dave Grohl
“I have a song I wrote called “Autobiography.” I came from a very intense living situation, with having a parent on drugs and not having a lot of money. So I always want to talk about the real things. But I think 90 percent of my music, I want it to be 'feel-good music'. I'm already recording tracks for my album, but when it comes time to actually say, 'this is the album,' I may be in a completely different space than I'm in right now.” ThinkingWantFeelsMayDifferentRealSongParentSpaceSituationRight NowDrugPercentTrackAlbumsIntenseFeel GoodLots Of MoneyAutobiographyReal Things Author:Nicki Minaj
“I don't work so hard at trying to get every song to be three-dimensional and mean so much. I just want to breathe, right now, with the music.” WantTryingMeanHardSongThreeRight NowBreathe Author:Eddie Vedder
“My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix, as we've talked about. It has very little to do with what people think success is. I actually feel successful right now, even though I don't have an album out, or a video or a song on the radio, because I'm trying to be obedient to His will.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingLittlesSongSuccessfulRight NowConceptsRadioAlbumsVideoObedientEscaping Author:Lauryn Hill
“Right now the day length is exactly the same as in spring when birds key into it and begin singing. The birds are a little confused by it all and the singing isn't very intense. It only lasts a week or so each fall, but it's still cool to hear spring bird songs at this time of the year.” YearsLittlesStillsLastsSongFallWeekKeysRight NowSpringSingingBirdIntenseConfusedLengthBird Song Author:Craig Thompson
“The bottom line is, if every single platinum song right now wasn't auto-tuned, then I would be like, "I can't be a rapper."” IfsI CanWould BeSongLinesRight NowBottomRapperBottom LinePlatinum Author:Spencer Pratt
“...yesterday and today and tomorrow are not an arrow that shoots from past to present to future; rather all tenses, and sleeping and waking, mix and cohabit in an atemporal duration beyond clocks and calendars. The Aboriginal world began long ago when the Ancestors sang in Dreamtime the cosmic rhythms that give shape to the things we see, and it is the beginning right now, when a living Tiwi sings the Dream songs that continue, or are, the world.” WorldGivingLongDreamTodayPastSongSleepTomorrowRight NowShapesYesterdayRhythmClockWakingCosmicAncestorLong AgoArrowsCalendarsDurationAboriginalToday And TomorrowYesterday And TodayDreamtime Author:Huston Smith
“Right now I feel so inspired, it's hard to believe. I've written about 20 songs in the last two days. I'd gone about four months without writing a thing.” FeelsWritingBelieveTwoHardLastsSongGoneFourWrittenMonthsRight NowInspiredTwo DaysHard To Believe Author:Tommy Bolin
“This was absolutely an attack on [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair, principally, and the perspective which is really predominant in Europe right now that he's not questioning enough of Mr. Bush's policies.” EnoughSongDogPolicyPerspectiveRight NowEuropeBritishMinistersPrimeQuestioningPrime MinisterBlair Author:George Michael
“It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.” WritingSongRight NowIntimacyImpulseInstant Author:Suzanne Vega
“I've been on a real Credence Clearwater kick. I've been collecting their albums on CD -- right now I really like 'I Put a Spell on You.' I don't know who actually wrote it; it might be a traditional, or like, an old blues song, I haven't looked in the liner notes, but it's the first song on their first album. I love all the hits; I mean @#$%&, I like every one of them. I think my favorite song by John Fogerty is 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain?' They're my favorite American band of all time, totally.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsMeanRealMightSongHavensRight NowBandRainNotesMy FavoriteAlbumsTraditionalAll TimeKicksSpellsCollectingCdsFavorite SongCredence Author:Ben Kweller
“I enjoy going on stage knowing that there's going to be that vulnerability and that transparency and hopefully things will be realized or accomplished or that confidence will be revealed. I think that's another element that people like about shows: in addition to hearing the songs that they love, I think there are some people who really get off on connecting with what's happening right now.” PeopleThinkingShowsSongEnjoyKnowingStageRight NowElementsHappeningsHearingHopefullyVulnerabilityAccomplishedConnectingTransparency Author:Jason Mraz
“We kind of just got more mature and more realistic with what we're doing. We kinda said, "We quit our jobs and we quit college to do this, and we're going to be playing these songs every day just about, y'know, on a stage... so let's write songs that we're never gonna get sick of playing." Songs that aren't just gonna follow a trend of what's going on right now, y'know?” KnowsWritingKindSaidJobsSongStageCollegeRight NowSickQuittingMatureTrendsRealistic Author:Jordan Buckley
“I think from a major-label perspective, if you were on the flip side of things and that's the world you were used to working in, your interpretation could be, "Oh, they're having trouble writing songs," when really it's like, "No, I'm not ready to write songs, I don't want to write a song right now, if I did write a song, it would be forced."” IfsThinkingWorldWantWritingWould BeUsedSongSidesTroubleReadyPerspectiveRight NowMajorsLabelsInterpretationFlipWriting SongsNot Ready Author:Beth Ditto
“My two young producers, Fernando Perdomo and Chris Price, had to explain to me that there's a division right now between the two sides. They took three living, breathing percussionists to do the beats on the song "Intensity". We've got all kinds of layers, because I kept saying we didn't get all the beats. If you hear a synth, it's because I put my foot down. But I had to fight for it because they wanted it all totally organic.” IfsKindTwoWantedYoungSongFightingThreeSidesFeetRight NowBeatsProducersAll KindsBreathingDivisionIntensityLayersTwo Sides Author:Linda Perhacs
“I think that's becoming the key to where the whole idea of art and culture are going nowadays anyway, is the idea of curation. Knowing what you like. That's sort of the future right now. Molding something, whether it be a roster on a label, or your blog, or a song, or your DJ set.” ThinkingArtIdeasWholeSongCultureKnowingKeysBecomingRight NowLabelsBlogsDjsMoldingArt And CultureRosters Author:A-Trak
“Name ten songs you want to hear again before you die, get all of your friends together and scream them. Because right now all you have is time, but someday that time will run out. That's the only thing you can be absolutely certain about.” WantRunningTogetherCertainSongDiesNamesRight NowTenChaosSomedayScream Author:Paul Baribeau
“I can write a song in the back of the bus, where I am right now, or in my living room, and I can perform it that night and have an instant reciprocal exchange - an emotional, impactful exchange - and it's a less technical medium. It's a pure expression from my soul to other souls.” WritingI CanSoulNightSongRoomsEmotionalExpressionRight NowPureMediumsMy SoulInstantBusLiving RoomReciprocal Author:Juliette Lewis
“I think the old school, back in the day, 10 to 15 years ago in music, is like you launch one single and you just let that ride out. Right now, you've got folks like Chris Brown, he just won't let up, he's got mixtape after mixtape, they're playing songs on the radio from the mixtape and then he's got songs on the album and videos and he's got remixes he's jumping on.” ThinkingYearsSchoolSongLike YouRight NowMusic IsYears AgoFolksRadioAlbumsVideoBrownJumpingOld SchoolBack In The DayRemixMixtapes Author:Tyrese Gibson
“I was going through troubles with my marriage, and I was just trying to focus and center myself. I was already rich and famous. I've got to figure out where I want to go and just get this thing aimed. I wrote this song ["Right Now"] and I kept singing it every day .” WantTryingSongRichFocusTroubleFiguresRight NowSinging Author:Sammy Hagar
“I'm a co-writer, publisher of that song ["Right Now" ], so for it to get accepted, we had to sign off on it. I signed off in a second. "You bet that anyone can use this. I don't care. You can use it for anything." If it is to inspire people in the positive sense.” PeopleIfsUseCareSongInspireRight NowDon't CareAcceptedI Don't CarePublishersSigning Off Author:Sammy Hagar
“You can't just have a good voice. You need a great voice, song, performance and video. When people see you, it all has to match up. There's a lot of missing parts in R&B right now. That's why it's not selling right now. Things that are irresistible, people will pay for it.” PeopleNeedsSongVoicePayMissingRight NowPerformancesVideoSellingIrresistibleGreat Voice Author:Sean Garrett
“When I can see someone that's posting the way that they're thinking about what's happening in the world right now or even art that they've created, it inspires me to do the same. It makes me turn off my phone and go paint a painting or go hike a mountain or go record a song. Those are the kind of things that social media helps me do. But it also can make me sit in my room and not do anything.” ThinkingWorldWayKindArtI CanHelpingSongTurnsSocialRoomsRecordsMediaInspirePaintingRight NowMountainHappeningsPaintPhonesSocial MediaHelp MeTurn Off Author:Willow Smith
“I thought that the R&B / Hip-Hop world really hasn't been explored on film and there's some issues that we're going through right now. It's in a very dangerous place , for women especially, both in terms of the songs that men are singing about. You know, R&B used to be a safe place for women and now it just seems like the songs coming out are so angry but also what women have to come out with. You have to get noticed. You see, it's like a script to follow. You come out hyper sexualized but what happens when you can't pull back from that. That's not authentic to yourself.” KnowsMenWorldSeemsHappensFilmUsedSongTermIssuesDangerousRight NowSafeSingingAngryScriptsHip HopUsed To BeHipsHopsComing OutHyperSafe PlacesDangerous Places Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood
“Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.” MomentsSongOur LivesRight NowUnwrittenFavorite Song Book:Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To Source: Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To