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“I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.”

Knows Writing Play Song Stage Band

Author:Adam Levine

“All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.”

Writing Seems Able Song

Author:Laura Marling

“I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.”

Feels Writing Sometimes States Song Lost Constant Translations Lost In Translation

Author:Laura Marling

“My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.”

Song Optimistic Realism Not Pretty

Author:Laura Marling

“When a song wants to be written, it will be written.”

Want Song Written

Author:Laura Marling

“Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.”

Writing Seems Song Trouble Writing Songs

Author:Marian McPartland

“I can answer anything about any American pop culture song ever.”

I Can Song Culture Answers Pops Pop Culture American Pop Culture

Author:Mark McGrath

“The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true.”

Thinking Way Wells Two Song Process Situation Gone Depends

Author:Michael McKean

“My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me.”

Knows Writing Mean Real Would Be Song My Own Originals My Favorite Tunes Favorite Song Favorite Music

Author:Paul McDonald

“If my life were a song, what would it be? 'A Never Ending Road of Musical Good Times'.”

Ifs Song Musical Good Times Never Ending

Author:Paul McDonald

“Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.”

Sometimes Song Written

Author:Roger McGuinn

“Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.”

Ifs Writing Wells Might Song Felt Serving Hammers Attempting Vocal Gigs Repetitive Fries Banging

Author:Ronnie Montrose

“Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.”

Song Speak Mines Singers Drawers Reeds

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.”

Different Song Narrative Caves

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.”

Wells Song Yeah Radio Showers

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know.”

Thinking Knows Way Looks Able Song Given Blessing Great Gifts

Author:Teena Marie

“There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him.”

Knows Years Would Be Used Song Sound Party My Friends Guitar

Author:Teena Marie

“It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.”

Way Different Artist Song Blessing Speech Different Ways

Author:Bebe Neuwirth

“My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.”

Has Beens Song Piano Auditions

Author:Bebe Neuwirth

“I think every singer hears songs that make you want to sing them.”

Thinking Want Song Singers

Author:David Nail

“As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write songs, I just hope I can stand in their company and not embarrass myself.”

Want Writing Trying I Can Song Company Honor Singers

Author:David Nail

“I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.”

People Long Country Whole Song Sound Long Time Pops Labels Long Time Ago Gave Up Pop Song

Author:David Nail

“I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.”

Mind Song Albums Solo Of My Mind

Author:Graham Nash

“It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I’ve done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they’re always poems first.”

Writing Firsts Long Art Done Enough Song Painting Long Time Pursue Enough Time Had Enough

Author:Jason Newsted

“To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.”

Should Firsts Wells Looks Kind Song Insight Pops Plenty Pop Song

Author:Jason Newsted

“I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before.”

Want Done Song

Author:Jessye Norman

“I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.”

I Can Song Voice

Author:Joanna Newsom

“I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.”

I Can Play Song Keys Harps Celtic

Author:Joanna Newsom

“I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.”

Song

Author:Joanna Newsom

“I have writing songs on my own for about six years.”

Writing Years Song My Own Six Writing Songs

Author:Joanna Newsom

“I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.”

Thinking Writing Different Wanted Song Folks Obvious Different Things Chords Progression Folk Music

Author:Joanna Newsom

“Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.”

Feels Whole Song Sound Chance Simple Example Personality Tunes Bucks Straightforward Being Straightforward Bakersfield

Author:Juice Newton

“Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.”

Ideas Song Behinds Player Rocks Band Glory Concepts Rock And Roll Digging Ragged Cassettes

Author:Krist Novoselic

“I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.”

Trying Stories Able Song Emotion Transmit

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.”

People Play Song Interesting Nice

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing that's as much as a listener can take.”

Song Three Knowing Land Minutes Genius Periods My Favorite Listeners Motown

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.”

Ifs Song Records Blame Complaining Always Complaining

Author:Randy Newman

“I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.”

Ifs Song Written If I Could

Author:Randy Newman

“I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.”

People Song Stuff Enjoy Fronts Stupid Involved Singing Albums Artwork

Author:Frank Ocean

“The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.”

People Writing Years Firsts Jobs Artist Song Half Four Claims Studios Sandwiches Eleven Writing Songs Subway Half A Year Processors

Author:Frank Ocean

“Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.”

People Should Together Song Pursuit Bunch Good Times Having A Good Time

Author:Gerald Caiafa

“The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.”

Dream Form Song Lines Childhood Rocks Originals Albums Drawing Bunch Punk Rock And Roll Dreams Come True Influential Childhood Dreams

Author:Gerald Caiafa

“I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.”

Want Needs Littles Faces Song Sound Break Crazy My Favorite Your Face Bass Favorite Song

Author:Patrice O'Neal

“I'm about to start working with a singer I met on my last trip: she'll get international exposure, and I'll have a song out in that market sung in Cantonese.”

Lasts Song Mets International Singers Exposure

Author:Paul Oakenfold

“You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.”

Artist Song Given Honest

Author:Rita Ora

“As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry she has through her songs has really hit me.”

Christian Spiritual Song Influence Ministry Crystals Christian Music

Author:Stacie Orrico

“I do not want a personal relationship with my fans. Or to do anything that encourages them to think they have one with me. They can have a personal relationship with my songs. That's fine, but they don't know me.”

Thinking Knows Want Song Fans Fine Know Me Personal Relationships

Author:Will Oldham

“I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.”

Song Singing

Author:Will Oldham

“I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.”

Writing Lasts Song Performances

Author:Will Oldham

“Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.”

People Giving Writing Reason Song Stranger Profession Interaction Offensive Writing Songs Interaction With Others

Book:Will Oldham on Bonnie

Source: Will Oldham on Bonnie

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