“I'm about to start working with a singer I met on my last trip: she'll get international exposure, and I'll have a song out in that market sung in Cantonese.” LastsSongMetsInternationalSingersExposure Author:Paul Oakenfold
“I wrote '('Til) I Kissed You' about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian, and she was very, very inspirational. I was married, but... I wrote the song about her on the way back home.” WayHomeSongGirlNamesMetsMarriedAustraliaBack HomeVery InspirationalWay Back Home Author:Don Everly
“Legends of the Silver Stallion had been told for years now, whenever mountain stockmen met round the campfires or on the winding hill tracks. Songs were sung about him to the cattle and both songs and tales had become even stranger since his supposed death when he vanished through the wind and the night over a great cliff. Tales kept cropping up of a ghost horse seen, or imagined, roaming over the mountains at night, of stockmen waking in a hut at midnight, hearing the tremendous stallion’s cry which could only be Thowra’s” YearsNightSongCryWindMetsMountainHorseRoundsTrackStrangerHearingGhostTalesHillsSilverLegendsWakingMidnightCliffsCattleHutsRoamingCampfireStallions Author:Elyne Mitchell
“The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that pricked at his eyes. Without that tapestry of colour and words and ritual, what was life but eating and mating, sleeping and moving your bowels? All of them good and necessary, but not enough; and they themselves needed that framework too, to give them meaning.” GivingEnoughStoriesEyeMovingSongSleepPoorNeededMetsEatingMovedFolksPityHis EyesColourRitualLegendsFrameworkTapestryMatingBowels Author:S.M. Stirling
“I met people that I couldn't talk to - they didn't speak Spanish or English - but they knew my songs. That's what I love, the music has gone past where I thought it would get to. That's the power of music, how it can travel and break language barriers.” PeoplePastSongSpeakLanguageBreakGoneMetsBarriersPower Of MusicLanguage Barriers Author:Prince Royce
“I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.” KnowsFactsSongFansMetsLet MeBlueMusicalTouchingFestivalsInvitationsKateReceptionWedding Reception Author:Ellie Goulding
“Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I'm making music because we write it together and produce it together. I've got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it.” FeelsWritingEndsTogetherSongProduceProductsMetsFindingsProducersInvolvementFinding Someone Author:Ellie Goulding
“I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet, I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She's sort of become my fairy godmother.” LooksHelpingArtistNightSongSweetBrokenMonthsMetsMessagesIndiaMy FavoriteAll TimeFairyAll NightTextingBroken UpText MessageFavorite ArtistGodmotherFairy GodmotherReally Sweet Author:Ariana Grande
“I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I admire is to ask them how do they receive songs.” WantFirstsSongAsksMetsEnglandAdmireSongwritersHarveyPjsPj Harvey Author:Valerie June
“I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 and I wrote my first song shortly after. Music was really important in my family. My grandma was a professional violin player and my parents first met when my dad was giving my mom guitar lessons.” GivingFirstsImportantSongParentPlayerMomDadLessonsMetsMy FamilyGuitarMy DadMy MomPianoViolinGrandmaMy GrandmaPiano Lesson Author:Eric Hutchinson