“And all the times I was picking up potatoes, I did have conversations with them. Too, I did have thinks of all their growing days there in the ground, and all the things they did hear. Earth-voices are glad voices, and earth-songs come up from the ground through the plants; and in their flowering, and in the days before these days are come, they do tell the earth-songs to the wind ... I have thinks these potatoes growing here did have knowings of star-songs.” ThinkingEarthSpiritReligionSongSpiritualityStarsVoiceKnowingGrowingWindConversationPlantCome UpGladThese DaysGardeningPotatoesFlowering Author:Opal Whiteley
“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
“If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . .” IfsWould BeSongLinesSituationMusicFineConversationSinger SongwritersFolk Music Author:Nick Drake
“I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into any conversation.” SongInformationConversationBunchNot AfraidCanvas Author:John Mellencamp
“When somebody brings me a record to mix, usually they feel like they can only get it so far with who they were working with or with themselves, and they just want somebody with fresh ears to take it to the next level. I just try to have a candid, open conversation with them about each song before we start working on it.” WantFeelsTryingSongNextLevelsRecordsConversationEarsNext LevelCandid Author:John Congleton
“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
“If I hear a conversation and somebody says something intriguing, my first thought is, Is that a song? I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say which of these things do I want to record.” IfsWantWritingYearsFirstsLongEndsSongRecordsConversationFiftyFortyIntriguing Author:Toby Keith
“If I start writing a song and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.” IfsWritingTryingPersonsSongConversation Author:Halsey