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“I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children's games and songs, nightmares, desires, terrors. ... That question [why do you paint?] has been put to me before and my answer was, 'To give terror a face.' But it's more than that. I paint because I can't help it.”

Source: Paula Rego

“Being in L.A. has definitely given me the opportunity to experience how my music sounds in real life because I can drive around and listen to the mixes, which I couldnt do in New York. I get to feel how a song works in combination with a sunset and a drive through the mountains.”

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Author:Dave Sitek

“I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.”

Ifs I Can Moments Character Film Song Quality Magic Intention Mystical

Author:Jean-Marc Vallee

“There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.”

World I Can Song Lost Melody

Author:George Jones

“When you're singing songs about love and sex, you want everyone to think you're singing to them. Whether you're a boy, a girl, a woman, a man - whatever you're into, I can be that.”

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Author:Joan Jett

“A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes.”

Feels I Can Hands Eye Song Singing Tangible

Author:Roberta Flack

“I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.”

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Author:Ester Dean

“When I'm working on a Slipknot song, it's like a switch flips in my head. I can go there easily - it doesn't take a lot of soul searching - and it's a dark, almost sinister place. Stone Sour is more the way I've always written. It's a different tone.”

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Author:Corey Taylor

“I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.”

Ifs Writing I Can Hard Song Turns Effects Rocks Havens Guitar Heavy Strings Metals Vibrations Because I Can Distortion Acoustics Collision Heavy Metal Acoustic Guitar Hard Rock Rock Song

Author:Corey Taylor

“I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.”

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Author:Chris Brown

“I have always considered myself a fast learner. I try to retain and absorb as much information and knowledge about the [music] business as I can. I don't want to just sit back and have other people do the hard work for me. I try to be involved in every process of my career as possible. I run my own social media, record, and try to vocal produce myself as much as possible, write my own songs, style myself, and learn the business side. If I didn't do acting or music, I was going to school for business. God has put me on this path and I can honestly say I wake up every day doing what I love.”

“If you're asking if I would be foolish enough, or insulting enough, to write about people in my life that I respect and sell it to the masses as a "break-up song," I can't imagine doing that to people I love.”

People Ifs Writing I Can Enough Would Be Song Break Imagine Mass Asking Sells Foolish Insulting

Author:Jack White

“I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, "I tried, I can't do it" and give up and don't try it again; they get too discouraged.”

People Giving Writing Trying Believe I Can Play Would Be Able Song Giving Up Instruments Discouraged Here And There

Author:Keith Richards

“If there's something that I really need to say that I can't say by speaking to someone, I usually write it in a song or a letter to someone.”

Ifs Needs Writing I Can Song Letters

Author:Joshua Radin

“I'm not able to tell you what the best song is yet, because there's more to come. I feel that in me. I can still feel the burning energy and the desire to create and create and create.”

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Author:John Lydon

“I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.”

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Author:Billy Joel

“The main thing you worry about is just coming up with songs at all. I don't sit down and write stuff like certain writers do. They think about what they are going to write first and then they write it. I just get what comes in at me. It's like I'm a musician and if I can keep my mitt on, I can catch the balls that come at me.”

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Author:Steven Tyler

“I have always felt compassion for the planet. Sometime I just start to get emotional. I cry because I can almost feel the pain in the air. I put it in words and in song and in dance I think that is what artistry is.”

Thinking Feels I Can Pain Song Felt Compassion Air Cry Emotional Planets Because I Can Artistry

Author:Michael Jackson

“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.”

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Author:will.i.am

“I can't legislate a song into being, it just will not happen for me.”

I Can Happens Song

Author:David Crosby

“I can have a song with Ariana Grande that is going to be the song for all the kids and the teen girls, and then another song that could be for a different group of people who all love the song. Im with whoever. Whatever type of people want to love the music and whatever they love about the music is fine with me.”

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Author:Mac Miller

“Getting a gay fan base is slow. I think if I were able to reach more gay people they would love it. I can't get the songs in their ears. I love my gay family. I just wish I could reach more of them. I'm in this car going from club to club but they're not gay clubs.”

People Ifs Thinking I Can Able Song Wish Fans Car Gay Ears Clubs Gay People

Author:Mary Gauthier

“To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.”

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Author:Barry Manilow

“My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can give myself time to tour or celebrate or write a film score.”

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Author:Imogen Heap

“I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.”

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Author:Christine McVie

“Yoochun makes great songs..so I want to go fishing w/ him. That way I can be closer to him as well.”

Way Want Wells I Can Song Fishing

Author:Junsu

“As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equation for language and pass on their experiments as poetry.”

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Author:Simon Armitage

“I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives, it's part of our culture we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.”

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Author:Karan Johar

“I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.”

Writing I Can Song Simple Chords

Author:Miguel

“I can picture the color of the song, or the shape of it, or who it is that I'm trying to appeal to, in the song, and what I'm trying to, almost, reinforce my feelings for. And I know that sounds sort of vague and abstract, but I've got a handle on it when I'm doing it.”

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Author:Bob Dylan

“I know that I can't ever write a song that just sounds completely saccharin. Even if I'm singing about someone being my complete love life, I'm singing about my own inabilities to be as bright as that person.”

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Author:Alexis Taylor

“The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.”

Needs Writing I Can Song Difficult Can Do Orchestra Writing Songs Assignments

Author:Randy Newman

“I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.”

Needs Writing Trying Years I Can Song Girl Unwritten

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I can't think of anything until I've got printed words in front of me. I never wake up in the middle of the night with a song in my head.”

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Author:Elton John

“I feel like I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and art, so for every song I can see a different kind of video.”

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Author:Angel Deradoorian

“I keep going back to love when I write songs because I can't figure it out.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.”

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Author:James Bay

“I try to think of the songs as little movies. They're always pretty visual to me. I can always sort of see them. I don't always know what the end result is going to be, and I don't know exactly what it's going to sound like, but I can kinda see them.”

Thinking Knows Trying Littles I Can Ends Song Sound Results Visuals End Results

Author:Neko Case

“If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction.”

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Author:F. Paul Wilson

“I can never tell what's going to end up being on an album until it's all finished. I'm reading the news everyday, and sometimes I just have to be away from it. And that ends up writing the songs for me a little bit.”

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Author:Jack Johnson

“For myself music definitely informs my emotions. And I can literally play a song that will get me where I need to be emotionally. I don't have to think about the tragic things that happened in my life or the greatest things that happened in my life.”

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Author:Queen Latifah

“I can't jump into other people's shoes, I can only speak for me. My songs are pretty much sermons put to music.”

People I Can Song Speak Shoes Sermons

Author:Mike Willis

“Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere, and it's usually the key to the whole song. It's the idea that matters. It's like electricity was around long before Edison harnessed it.”

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Author:Bob Dylan

“If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them. We go to countries like Germany, where I can't imagine that all of my fans are engaging with the lyrics first and foremost. I think they're catching a vibe, a feeling. I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back and telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.”

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Author:John Darnielle

“I can write for weeks or months sometimes and edit it down to a song. I feel like it's a piece of music that will hopefully stand the test of time and hopefully capture a moment in history if I'm doing it correctly and honestly.”

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Author:Macklemore

“If I've got the right songs, I can weave a spell over everyone.”

Ifs I Can Song Spells

Author:Richard Simmons

“I can listen to the same song back-to-back for two to three hours straight. I'm not psycho; I swear. There are some songs I won't listen to any more because they are songs that helped me get to emotional places. Even if I hear it, I'll have to walk out of the room or turn it down. It sounds so strange but those things affect me in a certain way.”

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Author:Rami Malek

“I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits - and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!”

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Author:Al Yankovic

“I'm a producer first, and I know music, so I can jump on any song, whether it's pop or urban, without changing me. Whatever I do, I'm gonna make it classic.”

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Author:Juicy J

“For me, the good songs are the ones that come really naturally. There are certain songs that you rework and rewrite and the craft becomes very evident, but a lot of times those aren't my favorite songs. The favorite songs are the ones that I can't even hear my own voice in.”

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Author:Jon Foreman

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