“I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.” FeelsWritingSometimesStatesSongLostConstantTranslationsLost In Translation Author:Laura Marling
“When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.” ThinkingWritingTryingSometimesCharacterSongTermCreatingThemeVisualsTransfersSoundtracksCreating Characters Author:Marisha Pessl
“Once you really get into a song, other than just listening to it, it forces you to go 'oh, they did this. I never would have thought of doing that,' when you deconstruct it. It's something you really can't do sometimes when you're just listening to a song. You have to really get into it.” SometimesSongForceListeningJust Listen Author:Greg Laswell
“I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as much music as possible. The last girlfriend I had, when we broke up, I remember being in a room for days on days on days with my music cranked up, playing songs like Kanye's '808's & Heartbreak.' That playlist just was long!” WritingLittlesLongSometimesLastsRememberSongMy OwnRoomsBrokeGirlfriendSurroundBroke UpCocoonsPlaylists Author:Tristan Wilds
“Most of my songs are pretty sketchy. There's not a lot of bass sections. I don't write big bridges. Sometimes I'll try. But it's hard for me to focus that way, because I always think it's more interesting to just see what will happen next.” ThinkingWayWritingTryingSometimesHardBigsHappensSongNextInterestingFocusBridgesSectionsBassSketchy Author:Ryan Adams
“I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.” SometimesWholeSongGrowsMissingListeningAlbumsCdsLame Author:Carolyn Mackler
“Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent.” SometimesSongBitsWander Author:Adele
“Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.” WritingSometimesSongWaitingDeliveryWriting Songs Author:Alex Turner
“Sometimes, you can't seem to find any song on the radio that you like.” SometimesSeemsSongRadio Author:Sondre Lerche
“I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.” WritingTryingI CanSometimesHardSongThreeSimpleDown AndChordsMessed Up Author:Sondre Lerche
“You can imagine several scenes from Star Wars? The way they looked? For me, that's how music is. Sometimes I'll be developing riffs for songs, just while I'm sitting around and not playing.” WayWarSometimesSongStarsImagineSceneMusic IsSittingDevelopingSitting Around Author:Ryan Adams
“I like the idea that within the structure of the song, some kind of built-in improvisation keeps them fragile and in their moment, so that I'm not projecting so much, so that my perception of the song doesn't interfere with what its real body is. Sometimes it's like telling a story that I heard in passing, and I don't want it to become completely mine.” WantKindIdeasRealSometimesMomentsStoriesBodySongHeardMinesPerceptionBuiltStructurePassingPassingsFragileInterfereImprovisation Author:Ryan Adams
“The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes like rock music. But some of the themes in there - maybe it's because I know how the songs were written, but it really does sound like it was written by two or three people, with the idea to appeal to the most general audience.” PeopleKnowsDoeTwoIdeasCountrySometimesSongThreeSoundAudienceKnow HowWrittenRocksStrangePopsContemporaryAppealsThemeFascinatedRock Music Author:Ryan Adams
“When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.” WantTryingSaidSometimesHardSongRecordsProductionsOver ItVocal Author:Sampha
“If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as though it increases. I must be honest about such strange feelings: I now want to be thought unfaithful about as much as a bougie aristocrat wants to be thought a hobo.” IfsWantFeelsSometimesFeelingsChristianAmericaLife IsSongChristBornNumbersHonestStrangeBeatsIncreaseBeing HonestDecreaseUnfaithfulHobos Author:Criss Jami
“My advice to women who habitually gravitate toward musicians is that they learn how to play an instrument and start making music themselves. Not only will they see that it's not that hard, but sometimes I think women just want to be the very thing they think they want to sleep with. Because if you're bright enough--no offense, Tawny Kitaen--sleeping with a musician probably won't be enough for you to feel good about yourself. Even if he writes you a song for your birthday. Don't you know that a musician who writes a song for you is like a baker you're dating making you a cake? Aim higher.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantFeelsWritingSometimesHardEnoughPlaySongSleepAdviceHigherMusicianDatingAimInstrumentsFeel GoodAbout YourselfCakeOffenseBakersAim HighWant To Sleep Author:Julie Klausner
“I like to hear songs which can lay it all on, songs which can look at the dark side as well as the bright side, sometimes they can be as strong as each other. Love and hatred are close.” WellsLooksSometimesSongStrongSidesDarkHatredLaysDark SideBright SideHatred And Love Author:Jim Capaldi
“Sometimes the show needs that kick in the ass so being able to sing a Nirvana song kind of takes it there. I've grown up putting on extravagant shows with Girl Talk so when I'm playing I like to go nuts. After 30 minutes of pointing and clicking it's nice to scream into a microphone for three minutes.” NeedsKindSometimesShowsAbleSongGirlThreeNiceMinutesAssKicksNutsScreamPointingExtravagantMicrophonesGirl Talk Author:Girl Talk
“Songs start with my bringing in the basic riffs for what you might call a verse and a chorus, an A and a B part...whatever. And sometimes a C and even a D. That's kind of the easy, or at least easier part. The hard part is finding that special, perfect way to order things - how many times to do A before B and back and how the second verse differs from the first. That's all we got.” WayFirstsKindSometimesHardMightSongOrderEasyPerfectSpecialEasierFindingsVersesChorus Author:David First
“Sometimes when you're making songs you just make sounds, and the sounds slowly mutate and evolve into actual words that have meaning.” SometimesSongSoundEvolve Author:Tom Waits
“What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist will sing you a song as loud and off-key as will a blacksmith, for he knows that morals are too often diagnostic of prostatitis and stomach ulcers. Sometimes he may proliferate a little too much in all directions, but he is as easy to kill as any other organism, and meanwhile he is very good company, and at least he does not confuse a low hormone productivity with moral ethics.” KnowsMenWorldMayLittlesDoeSometimesSongEasyCompanyMoralLaughingToo MuchKeysHealthyLowsEthicsVery GoodProductivityLoudGood ManStomachOrganismsHormonesAnd OffBiologistGood CompanyMoodyTenorsMoral EthicsUlcersBlacksmiths Author:John Steinbeck
“My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not to make some statement about the harp - somehow has ... coloured people's interpretations of the music and projected an idea of childlike or fairytale quality or innocence. Which sometimes prevents people from listening to the songs the way I would like them to be listened to.” PeopleWayIdeasSometimesUseSongVoiceQualityListeningStatementsInnocenceCombinationInterpretationFairytaleChildlikeHarps Author:Joanna Newsom
“There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked old wild sea-songs, minding nobody... Often I have heard the house shaking with Yo-ho-ho and a bottle and rum, all the neighbours joining in for dear life with the fear of death upon them and each singing louder than the other to avoid remark. Fiften men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil have done for the rest. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!” MenSometimesDoneNightSongHouseWaterDealsHeardSeaDrinkSingingDevilDearWickedChestsBottlesRemarksFear Of DeathShakingNeighbourJoiningDead ManRumDear LifeJoining InWild Sea Author:Robert Louis Stevenson
“Sometimes when you grieve, you grieve at a time where you don't really expect it. You might hear a song or you might smell something or see something that might trigger something, and all of a sudden you get hit with this rush of emotion.” SometimesMightSongEmotionSmellGrievingTriggers Author:Michael B. Jordan
“Sometimes I'll write a song. When I've gone through something really hard in my life, sometimes it's other people's music. Other times it's actually writing the songs and getting out of mind and into the song.” PeopleWritingMindSometimesHardSongGone Author:Jack Johnson
“There is a string attached to Maia Sharp's voice. And when she sings, you find that the other end is attached to your gut. Her voice is lush and sensual and the emotions she articulates resonate with the small feelings we have that sometimes are hard to face..there is an edge to her songs, but also a softness...she is lyrical and conversational at the same time. Her CD was the only one in my machine for a month. Her work inspires me to dig deeper.” EndsSometimesHardFeelingsFacesSongVoiceEmotionInspireMonthsMachinesEdgesDeeperSensualGutsStringsCdsLyricalSoftnessDig DeepLushStrings Attached Author:Kathy Mattea
“I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time.” WritingLittlesSometimesSongStuffRecordsStuckVocalRandom Things Author:Ellie Goulding
“The wind has a language, I would I could learn! Sometimes 'tis soothing, and sometimes 'tis stern, Sometimes it comes like a low sweet song, And all things grow calm, as the sound floats along, And the forest is lull'd by the dreamy strain, And slumber sinks down on the wandering main, And its crystal arms are folded in rest, And the tall ship sleeps on its heaving breast.” SometimesSongLanguageGrowsSoundSleepSweetWindArmsLowsAll ThingsCalmForestsShipsWanderBreastsTallStrainFloatsCrystalsSoothingSlumberDreamyLullsTall Ships Author:Letitia Elizabeth Landon