“I like the songs to appear very simple and to flow by without any kind of hiccup, but there has to be this impression of other currents underneath. Like if the songs aren't, on some level, multidimensional, we lose interest in them.” IfsKindSongInterestLosesSimpleLevelsFlowCurrentsImpressionHiccups Author:Gillian Welch
“Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do it I usually forget it, and try something else. I like to work quickly; I never like to waste any time. I never write half a song and come back to it later at all. It all has to be done at once. I lose interest if it doesn't.” IfsWritingTryingLittlesDoneSongInterestHoursLosesForgetHalfWasteTake MeForget ItLittle Time Author:Bernie Taupin
“I try not to think about the idea of reaching more and more people, because once you get in that mindset, I think you lose the point of why you're doing it in the first place. Still, the best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsTryingFirstsStillsIdeasFeelingsCertainSongLosesMindsetReachingBefore And Now Author:Conor Oberst
“Is it me or is President Bush's life starting to sound like a country song. He's from Texas, his dog just died, and it looks like he might lose his job. Next thing, his truck is going to break down.” LooksCountryMightJobsSongNextSoundPresidentLosesBreakDogDiedStartingTexasBreaking DownTruckPresident Bush Author:Jay Leno
“There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.” WritingTryingArtistSongLosesCareersFollowersBobDylanHooked Author:Del Shannon
“...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language.” HandsValuesSongLanguageLosesIntellectualMusicalCurrentsExtremesDisappearSensualProseSignificanceBalancedVersesPower Of Language Author:Paul Valery
“I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.” IfsSongLosesGoneWrittenLosingDearAfrican AmericanSinger SongwritersLosing Someone Author:Prince