“I feel fortunate that I've had a lot of songs recorded by other people, because I take my songwriting very seriously. It's only those people that have followed me over the years and really know my work that know how serious I am about all of it - including the way I look. You can't take my high heels from me, you can't have my long fingernails, you can't take all this hair from me, because it's part of this thing that I've become. I wouldn't want to give any of it up. Do I have to be ugly to be a songwriter? This is the way I am, and it's what I choose to be.” PeopleKnowsWayWantGivingFeelsYearsLooksLongSongMusicKnow HowSeriousHairLuckIncludingUglyFortunateSongwritingHeelsSongwritersHigh HeelsFingernails Author:Dolly Parton
“In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.” ThinkingWayNeedsKindSongEnergySeriousCourtMuseUrgency Author:James Taylor
“All comics want to be musicians. There's a part of me that wants to be a serious musician. I love songs about heartache and heartbreak.” WantSongSeriousMusicianHeartache Author:Sarah Silverman
“I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many serious songs, I'll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up.” IfsTryingKindDifferentSongSeriousSingingHumorousRidiculousDifferent Kinds Author:Pete Seeger
“Honky Tonk Badonkadonk wasnt some serious song, but it was huge! It was funny.” SongSeriousHugeTonks Author:Tyler Farr
“I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But when I started writing songs, I wrote very serious songs. Or things that a 13-14 year-old would think are very serious issues.” ThinkingWritingYearsSongSidesNaturalIssuesComedySeriousHobbiesWriting SongsNatural ThingsSerious Issues Author:Kyle Dunnigan
“I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up all in the same moment.” MomentsEarthSpiritualSongSeriousTruthfulDown To Earth Author:Bob Dylan
“When I`m going to do a Christmas album I had to put my mind in Christmas mode. I had to go back to being a child and remembering all of that. When I go to do a project, I'm serious about it, so I wrap my world around it, and it becomes Christmastime for me and I'm singing songs like it's Christmas day.” WorldMindChildrenRememberSongSeriousProjectsSingingAlbumsWrapsChristmas DaySinging Songs Author:Mary J. Blige
“When you're dealing with TV and with movies, people dont take it as serious as they do with music. If a rapper does a song about shooting people on the block, and goes into a restaurant or grocery store, people grab their purses because they're afraid the person is violent. With TV and movies, people know it's okay, it's just a script.” PeopleIfsKnowsPersonsDoeSongSeriousTvsOkayScriptsStoresViolentBlockShootingRestaurantsRapperGroceriesPursesGrocery Stores Author:Suge Knight
“Slim Shady is just the evil thoughts that come into my head. Things I shouldn't be thinking about. Not to be gimmicky, but people should be able to determine when I'm serious and when I'm f... around. That's why a lot of my songs are funny. I got a warped sense of humor I guess.” PeopleThinkingShouldAbleSongEvilSeriousDetermineSense Of HumorSlimShadyEvil ThoughtsSlim Shady Author:Eminem
“All of the guys love to take serious topics and go for it; we're not writing a whole lot of love songs. With 'Sacrificed Sons,' we had some sensitivity there about how we'd present it. I remember there was a lot of discussion about the kind of words that would be used and how direct we wanted to be.” WritingKindWholeWould BeWantedRememberUsedGuySongSeriousSonDirectDiscussionSensitivityTopics Author:Jordan Rudess
“I'm a Gemini and I have a lot of different moods. Sometimes I'm very serious and introspective and pensive, but other times I'm completely goofy and girlie. So, I like my songs to cover all my moods.” DifferentSometimesSongSeriousMoodIntrospectiveGoofyPensiveDifferent Moods Author:Jewel
“I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious, serious song, I wrote when I was fourteen.” WritingFirstsStoriesSongStuffSeriousSixSevenShort StoryWriting SongsFourteenWriting Poetry Author:Gabrielle Aplin
“If you look at all the artists I've ever worked with, I'm still blessed enough to have one of the biggest singles of their career. My passion is for them and I put my everything into these songs. i get into their life and what their aesthetic is. That's what's missing from R&B. People don't take it serious enough.” PeopleIfsLooksStillsEnoughArtistSongPassionCareersMissingSeriousBlessedAestheticMy PassionSingles Author:Sean Garrett
“Ultimately, we as a band just write what we write. Some of it's very serious, and even in the serious songs, there's sometimes an angle of levity. I think that's just how we communicate naturally and to shy away from that would be, first of all, boring for me, but also it wouldn't ring true to who I am or the way I relate to people or the way we relate to people as a band or the way we relate to the audience. Humor is a big part of it, but we also take our craft very seriously.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingFirstsSometimesBigsWould BeSongAudienceSeriousBandCommunicateBoringRingsWho I AmCraftsRelateShyAngleLevity Author:Ed Robertson
“In all honesty I think, sometimes with the LGBT community, if you look at anything else surrounding it, there's always been this oddness and sense of humor. I really appreciate that. It's kind of a hard world to take yourself too seriously. It's a good balance check. It's not serious all the time. I'm that way too, even though I write a lot of depressing music. A lot of times our shows are not very serious at all. We joke a lot and then we play a sad song and then we joke again.” ThinkingWorldWritingKindSometimesSongCommunityHonestySeriousBalanceJokesAppreciateLgbtSense Of HumorDepressingSad Song Author:Radical Face
“I always try to be ironistic in everything I do. I love people who understand humor and who live through humor. So, of course, I was not too serious covering such things as Motörhead or "Black Magic Woman" by Santana. But I was serious enough about Led Zeppelin and the Celtic song "Wild Mountain Thyme." In my life, serious and humor are always together.” PeopleTryingEnoughTogetherSongBlackMagicSeriousMountainBlack Magic Author:Albert Kuvezin
“A song can't be completely serious if you rhyme melodic with alcoholic.” SongSeriousRhyme Author:Jarvis Cocker