“I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It's kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn't one write about that?” WritingYearsKindSongInterestingEventsHugeCoupleYears AgoStrikesHorribleHipsReplacements Author:Loudon Wainwright III
“Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed by the will of the writer into grace or redemption, a prophetic wail, a screed for justice, an elegy of sadness or sorrow. ... There is always a tension between experience and the thing that finally carries it forward, bears its weight, holds it in. Without that tension, one might as well write a shopping list.” WritingWellsMayMightPainSufferingSongJusticeGraceSadnessChangedBearsSorrowOrdinaryGoldWeightListsHorribleRedemptionTensionCarrieShoppingTransformedAlchemyPropheticDrossElegy Author:Andrea Dworkin
“I can't sing “I Believe I Can Fly”. I sing that horrible. But I can sing “I Gotta Feeling” good. I wrote it for my capabilities. So I Gotta Feeling is just about let me make a song to inspire people to have a good time.” PeopleBelieveI CanFeelingsSongI BelieveInspireLet MeHorribleFeel GoodGood TimesCapabilityHaving A Good Time Author:will.i.am
“I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.” StillsSongSawsHorribleTapeRhyme Author:Del Shannon