“Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.” ThinkingHumansImportantFactsCareSongSimpleBrainOpinionTrumpPeriodsEasierImportant ThingsDon't CareI Don't CareMelodyHuman Brain Author:Ryan Tedder
“I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of my records and establishing myself as a songwriter is super-important to me. Some people have that gift, where they can take on anything and make people believe it. I like to do a song from personal experience.” PeopleWritingBelieveHas BeensImportantFactsAbleSongRecordsSongwritersPersonal Experiences Author:Kate Voegele
“I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.” ThinkingWritingArtFactsArtistSongInterestNaturalListeningGrewKingsGrew UpInspiredGuitarSongwritingWriting SongsPlaying Guitar Author:Kate Voegele
“The fact that I'm shouting that I have Gangnam style makes people crack up. Imagine if Brad Pitt was singing the song - would it be funny? A twist is important when it comes to writing lyrics.” PeopleIfsWritingImportantFactsSongImagineStyleSingingCracksTwistsShoutingBradGangnam Style Author:PSY
“The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension.” WritingFactsPoliticalSongPowerfulInstrumentsDimensionsExpress Yourself Author:J. Robbins
“The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.” IfsFactsSongSimpleLuckIncludingSupposed To BeGood Luck Author:William Saroyan
“There is a great temptation with songs, melodies and lyrics to overcomplicate them but in fact, you find that the most enduring melodies are often the simplest.” FactsSongEndureTemptationMelodySimplest Author:Ken Hensley
“I write a lot of songs about being in love, how beautiful women are but I've definitely experienced that other side of love where you're in a situation where you love a girl so much but you just know for a fact that she doesn't love you the same. "Grenade" is the extreme way of saying "I'd do anything for you and why can't I feel you would do the same for me?” KnowsWayFeelsWritingFactsBeautifulSongGirlSidesSituationLove YouExtremesBeautiful WomenBeing In LoveGrenade Author:Bruno Mars
“I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.” IfsWritingFactsSongAnswersNeurosisTherapeutic Author:Loudon Wainwright III
“I recall this sergeant's informing me and my "room-mates" of this rather deplorable fact the army didn't have any official, excuse me, didn't have no official song and suggested that we work on this in our copious free time.” FactsSongRoomsArmyExcuseOfficialsMatesRecallsExcuse MeFree TimeInformingSergeants Author:Tom Lehrer
“I'll never be bothered if I don't have a hit because you look at the songs that are hits and they're none of my favourites. Just the fact that we do have fans waiting here, that's exciting enough.” IfsLooksEnoughFactsSongWaitingFansExcitingBothered Author:Bert McCracken
“The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.” MenHumansMadeSelfFactsProblemHandsEyeLawLife IsSongIndividualNationsSocialPathFeetOceanUglySolveRevengeTeethHuman LifeRisingSpiteTidesPursuedRisenRecurringSocial ProblemsRetaliationWreckage Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I'm better at producing than I am at being a songwriter, but it doesn't change the fact that I still have a desire to play and write songs. I've never wanted to be a career musician. But I still love to play and write. It's a big part of who I am.” WritingStillsPlayFactsBigsWantedDesireSongCareersMusicianWho I AmSongwriters Author:John Congleton
“I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.” KnowsFactsSongFansMetsLet MeBlueMusicalTouchingFestivalsInvitationsKateReceptionWedding Reception Author:Ellie Goulding
“What are the precise characteristics of an epigram it is not easy to define. It differs from a joke, in the fact that the wit of the latter dies in the words, and cannot therefore be conveyed in another language; while an epigram is a wit of ideas, and hence, is translatable. Like aphorisms, songs and sonnets, it is occupied with some single point, small and manageable; but whilst a song conveys a sentiment, a sonnet a poetical, and an aphorism a moral reflection, an epigram expresses a contrast.” IdeasFactsSongDiesLanguageEasyMoralJokesReflectionWitCharacteristicsLatterSentimentsContrastAphorismPreciseSonnetEpigramsManageable Author:William Matthews
“A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz's Bob Dylan in America is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song.” FactsAmericaSongCultureReadingVisionListeningSurprisingBobMultipleAngleShiftingThrillingDylanAmerican CultureSean Author:Martin Scorsese
“Getting older doesn't help you in the fact that you might have covered some of this ground before. So you're listening to a song that you know is a hit, but it just can't be a hit for you, it's gonna be a hit for somebody else. That's tough.” KnowsFactsHelpingMightSongListeningToughCoveredGetting OldGetting Older Author:Garth Brooks
“Despite the fact that Starbucks has grown to be a large company. We've always played music in our stores and has always acted as an opportunity to create a mood in our stores. And customers started asking, "What song are you playing and can I buy that?" . And we said "No." And that was kind of the catalyst for beginning to look at music. We started out with our own compilations and after the success of that. We had the courage to say, "Let's produce our own record." and the first record was with Ray Charles before he unfortunately passed away.” FirstsLooksKindSaidFactsSongOpportunityCompanyRecordsProduceAskingCustomersStoresMoodDespiteRaysCatalystPassed AwayStarbucksCompilationLarge Companies Author:Howard Schultz
“Writing is not work. In fact, theres nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow - radio stations quit existing and music quit being popular and it was old hat - I would still write songs.” IfsWritingStillsFactsSongTomorrowRadioQuittingHatsStationsMusic BusinessRadio StationsBeing Popular Author:Toby Keith
“The whole trouble with a folk song is that once you have played it through there is nothing much you can do except play it over again and play it rather louder. Most Russian music, indeed, consists in ringing changes on this device, skilfully disguised though the fact may be.” MayPlayWholeFactsSongCan DoTroubleFolksDevicesFolk Songs Author:Constant Lambert
“Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin, because you got to persevere despite the fact that people tell you you shouldn't do this or you shouldn't do that or you're not good enough or your style's too different. I've heard all of that stuff.” PeopleIfsWritingKindDifferentEnoughFactsSongStuffHeardStyleDeterminationSkinsDespiteGood EnoughThickPersevereNot Good EnoughThick Skin Author:John Legend
“I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, and that's the song that nobody talks about. It's weird.” TwoMatterFactsSongAlbumsTunesMatter Of FactAuto Tune Author:T-Pain
“Irony is the disparity between what you expect will happen, and what does happen. So raining on your wedding day isn't ironic, it's just crappy. It would have been ironic if she had lived in a place like Seattle, and traveled to the desert of Mexico for a wedding and it ended up raining there, but not in Seattle. Alanis always gets the last laugh though. We all sit here, saying her song isn't ironic, but in fact, that's pretty ironic that she wrote a song called Ironic that wasn't really ironic. Those Canadians are pretty crafty.” IfsDoeHas BeensFactsHappensLastsSongLaughingRainDesertIronyIronicMexicoTraveledSeattleDisparityWedding DayCraftyOur Wedding Author:Mo Rocca
“Music being “good or bad” is a flawed idea. Artists make what they want to make and we either connect with it or we don't. Just because we relate to some songs more than others doesn't make the others less valid, we just don't understand them. In fact, we aren't meant to, and that's all right.” WantIdeasFactsArtistSongMusic IsBe GoodRelateFlawed Author:Jacob Bannon
“Songwriting is a craft. Writing good songs on a a consistent basis doesn not happen spontaneously. In fact, most of our best songwriters learned to write good songs by writing a lot of not so good ones. Education matters in songwriting, just as it matters for physicists, chemists, doctors, lawyers and MBAs. Education lays the foundataion on which to build experience.” WritingMatterFactsHappensSongDoctorsBasesLaysLawyerCraftsConsistentSongwritingSongwritersPhysicistChemistMba Author:Michael Kosser
“Being singer is different than being an actor, where you call up sources from your own experience that you can apply to whatever Shakespeare drama you're in. But an actor is pretending to be somebody, a singer isn't. And that's the difference. Singers today have to sing songs where there's very little emotion involved. That and the fact that they have to sing hit records from years gone by doesn't leave a lot of room for any kind of intelligent creativity.” YearsKindLittlesDifferentFactsTodaySongActorsDifferencesRoomsEmotionCreativityGoneRecordsSourceInvolvedDramaIntelligentSingersPretendingYears Gone By Author:Bob Dylan