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“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

“Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.”

Way Writing Humans Made Form Song Realizing February

Author:Dar Williams

“In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.”

Author:Robert Lanza

“The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. I don't mean sad. Melancholy is sort of a comfort. Melancholy has a sort of beauty to it. This attracts me to every other form of art.”

Firsts Mean Art Real Form Song Emotion Emotional Comfort Melancholy Being Real

Author:Keren Ann

“You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape. I like to create ambiance and atmosphere. The writing is the intimate part of it. It is a sketch. The production is the whole painting.”

Giving Writing Whole Jobs Form Song Painting Productions Architecture Landscape Atmosphere Intimate Ambiance

Author:Keren Ann

“Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.”

Beautiful Form Song Growth Acceptance Building Creating Endless Allowing Destroying Pulling Chasing

Book:JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays

Source: JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays

“This is a catastrophic universe, always; and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes.”

Form Joy Song Universe Subjects Shapes Pressure Substance Under Pressure Upheaval Reversal

Author:Doris Lessing

“Marvin Gaye said there's a song inside of me and I can't get it out. And I know it's in there, and I can feel that it's in there, and I can't get it out. There's so much that I want to say, and I haven't been able to figure out how to say it in my art. I can only say it in ham-fisted, clumsy, nonpoetic ways, and I'm trying to figure out how to talk about life and talk about love and talk about pain and trials and tribulation in an artistic form.”

Knows Way Want Feels Trying Art Said I Can Able Pain Form Song Havens Figures Trials Artistic Tribulation Clumsy Ham Trials And Tribulations Marvin

Author:Will Smith

“Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.”

Should Art Self Form Song Freedom Creative Expression Breaths Baths Self Expression Refreshing Impulsive Sketching

Author:Mervyn Levy

“When the warrior returns, from the battle afar,To the home and the country he nobly defended,O! warm be the welcome to gladden his ear,And loud be the joy that his perils are ended:In the full tide of song let his fame roll along,To the feast-flowing board let us gratefully throng,Where, mixed with the olive, the laurel shall wave,And form a bright wreath for the brows of the brave.”

Country Home Form Joy Song Return Battle Fame Ears Brave Wave Warm Welcome Warrior Loud Boards Tides Peril Brows Afar Olives Laurels Wreaths

Book:Poems of the late Francis S. Key, esq

Source: Poems of the late Francis S. Key, esq

“The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There is determination to give the tale, the song, the painting, form -- to make it true and real to the theme, not to life.”

Giving Art Real Reality Form Purpose Artist Song Painting Determination Tales Confused Theme Imaginative

Book:The Sherwood Anderson reader

Source: The Sherwood Anderson reader

“So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it? And you don't know what to do, and you don't know how to talk to your friends and how weird it is to be a feminist in that situation, where there's sort of the expectation that you're super-strong superwoman but you're just, like, eating pizza in your house avoiding talking about it.”

Knows Form Song House Strong Talking Situation Know How Violence Eating Expectations Males Feminist Avoiding Pizza Horrific Superwoman Super Woman

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.”

Art Form Song Special Shoes Clothings

Author:Afrojack

“I've always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place or a season of life like no other art form can.”

Art Form Song Strong Emotional Seasons Ties Fascinated Seasons Of Life Strong Emotional

Author:Jon Foreman

“A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that's what bass does for me. I feel like the glue to everything.”

Feels Doe Form Song Memorable Simplest Bass Glue

Author:Nikki Sixx

“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?'”

Thinking Knows Trying Doe Soul Form Song Next Chance Seeing Streets Right Now Conversation Happenings Radio My Soul Utterance What Is Life Conversations With God

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.”

Thinking Mind Long Form Song Speak Language Pieces

Author:Steve Hackett

“If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.”

Ifs Want Feels Persons Play Form Joy Song Turns Three Opportunity Minutes Love You Unique Musical Length Say I Love You Unique Opportunities

Author:Marsha Norman

“I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the news. The punchline comes to me, and I go over it in my head and get the song form. I hadn't been doing that a lot.”

Writing Form Song News Over It Punchlines

Author:Mose Allison

“So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?”

Form Song Violence Males Horrific Superwoman Super Woman

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It's a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand. And you can be anyone you want: you can be as grandiose as you want or you can be as down in the gutter as you want. It's just sort of whatever emotional freeway you're on at the time.”

Want Form Song Emotional Chaos Gutters Freeways Grandiose

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“Seek to make life henceforth a consecrated thing; that so, when the sunset is nearing, with its murky vapors and lowering skies, the very clouds of sorrow may be fringed with golden light. Thus will the song in the house of your pilgrimage be always the truest harmony. It will be composed of no jarring, discordant notes; but with all its varied tones will form one sustained, life-long melody; dropped for a moment in death, only to be resumed with the angels, and blended with the everlasting cadences of your Father's house.”

May Long Moments Light Form Song Father House Sky Sorrow Angel Harmony Notes Clouds Golden Tone Sunset Melody Everlasting Long Life Truest Pilgrimage Vapor Cadence Consecration Golden Light

Author:John Ross Macduff

“He was a Baptist minister who prayed through his six-shooter which he claimed was the most efficacious form of prayer, especially in dealing with Yankees...he would go into battle singing the songs of David.”

War Form Song Prayer Battle Six Singing Ministers Yankees Baptists Shooter

Author:John S. Mosby

“There are more similarities than differences when it comes to preparation of a performance. You're using some lyrics, you have a relationship with them, they apply to different parts of your life and different circumstances, different memories, different stories you have in your head. You form personal relationships with the song. I think that's very similar, in a way, to prepping a character. You pour your own personality, in a sense, into the character, you sympathize with a character in a way that's similar to the way you might sympathize with a song.”

Thinking Way Different Character Stories Might Form Song Differences Memories Personality Circumstances Performances Preparation Similarity Personal Relationships

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“I think that anything is a form of folk music. That's just me being glib, but the thing I like the best about humans, and there are not many other things besides this, is that humans make culture. If you're an artist, a big part of folk is noticing what other people are doing and incorporating it and changing it - the way that songs warp and change over time.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Humans Bigs Form Artist Song Culture Folks Noticing Folk Music Warp Incorporating Changes Over Time

Author:Will Sheff