“My biggest advice for girls - and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger - is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.” FirstsWantedSongGirlWishKnownAdviceSkinsLike MeObsessedThickThick Skin Author:Kate Voegele
“To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny video guy. But in Korea I'm doing one of the biggest concerts; it's not a dance music concert. I'm playing with the band, so I change my every song to a rock song.” WorldGuySongKnownRocksBandVideoConcertsKoreaDance MusicFunny MusicRock SongFunny SongFunny Videos Author:PSY
“While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another one equally well known.” WellsBeautifulSongNextKnownBeautyAirNext DayWell Known Book:The Experiences of a Ladies' Maid Source: The Experiences of a Ladies' Maid
“A magical portal opened inside my mind and conducted me into an astonishing world. [...] Before this moment I had divined but had never known with such positiveness that the world is extremely large and that suffering and toil are the companions and fellow warriors not only of Cretan, but of every man. [...] That by means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much of the ephemeral existed, poetry could immortalize it by turning it into song.” MenWorldMindMeanMatterMomentsDreamSufferingSongEffortKnownFellowsEvery ManWarriorCompanionTransformedToilAstonishingEphemeralPortalPositiveness Author:Nikos Kazantzakis
“I've known Prince for many years - I worked on the "Raspberry Beret" video - and Kirstie [Alley] and I used to fight about him.He once sent a card [saying] he had penned a song about me, called "Palomino Pleasure Ride." I remember bringing this card to work one time and showing Kirstie and saying: "See? Now who's the better friend?" It was so ridiculous.” YearsRememberUsedSongFightingPleasureKnownRidiculousVideoCardsOne TimeAlleysRaspberries Author:Kirstie Alley
“A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his conscience provided, of course, that he possesses one. As a performing artist, he will pride himself on timing and other techniques designed to keep the audience in his control ... his respect for genuine folklore reminds him that these changes, and these techniques, may give the audience a false picture of folk music.” GivingMayArtistSongCoursesKnownAudienceTroublePrideConscienceBoundsFolksTechniqueSingersGenuinePerformingTimingEntertainersFolkloreFolk MusicPerforming ArtsFolk SongsPerforming Artist Author:Sam Hinton
“I don't kind of want to be known as a one-trick pony who just does the adult-alternative song once a year that makes it onto the radio and people sort of think it's nice.” PeopleThinkingWantYearsKindDoeSongKnownNiceAdultsRadioTricksAlternativesPonies Author:Ed Sheeran
“There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or she might succeed in capturing in a few dozen words what great writers have spent years trying to say. Just the right word in the right place with the right melody behind it and the right rhythm. It might get around the world inch by inch, and people realize that this world is in danger, that we're in danger. That's the way "This Land Is Your Land" got to be so well known.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayWritingTryingYearsWellsMayMightKidsSongRealizingBehindsKnownWonderfulLandDangerThis WorldSucceedRhythmAround The WorldMelodyDozenInchesWell KnownRight PlaceWriting SongsGreat WritersRight WordsDiapers Author:Pete Seeger
“I'm interested in feedback and learning what people want. It's a tricky thing for me when I do a set list. You get bored doing the same songs. Let's say we do one ballad in two hours, and it's "Wild Horses." If you say, I'm tired of that, let's try something less well known, and then you're out there stumbling through this song you just relearned at sound check, and you realize people probably want "Wild Horses" instead of this. You do need to do some songs that aren't so well known. The question is how many? I'm open to people posting their requests.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsTryingWellsTwoSongSoundRealizingHoursKnownLaughingHorseTiredListsChecksBoredWell KnownFeedbackRequestTrickyI'm TiredStumblingBalladsWild Horses Author:Mick Jagger
“Work is the only meanin' I've ever known. Like the man in the song says, I just gotta keep on keepin' on.” MenSongWorkKnownHuman NatureHe Man Author:Joe Frazier
“Operation Peter Pan spanned from 1960-62 whereby over 14,000 children were sent away from their families in Cuba, some never to reunite again. Pan Am flights took the children to Miami FL, 'Never-Never Land', and the children became known as the 'Peter Pans.' I wrote this song for my daughter, and it is sung for all the daughters and mothers, fathers and brothers who felt this pain of separation all because of governments and their politics.” ChildrenGovernmentPainMotherSongFatherFeltKnownLandBrotherDaughterSeparationFlightOperationsMy DaughterPeter1960sCubaMiamiMother And DaughterFather And BrotherNever Never LandPain Of Separation Author:Tori Amos
“I'm good with songs I haven't written, if I like them. I'm glad I didn't write any of them. I already know how they go, so I have more freedom with them. I understand these songs. I've known them for 40 years, 50 years, maybe longer, and they make a lot of sense. So I'm not coming to them like a stranger.” IfsKnowsWritingYearsSongKnownKnow HowWrittenHavensStrangerGlad Author:Bob Dylan
“I think a lot of times, artists and albums can become formulaic. You're known for a certain thing, and you continue to do that. You just change the subject matter, but it's the same song. And that's what you do.” ThinkingMatterArtistCertainSongKnownSubjectsAlbumsSubject Matter Author:Eric Church
“Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.” PeopleMenWayNeedsFeelsHelpingSongVoiceKnownListeningSingingReally GreatSad SongVoice Singing Author:Patty Griffin