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“Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.”

Song Speak Mines Singers Drawers Reeds

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“I've always loved doing covers. Some artists don't like covers. Some listeners don't like covers. But I love them. It gives you a new perspective production-wise. It's easier for me, if I'm starting a new record, I like to produce a few songs that aren't mine just so it frees me up not to worry about it so much.”

Ifs Giving Artist Song Worry Records Wise Produce Mines Perspective Easier Starting Productions Listeners New Perspective

Author:Greg Laswell

“Goes the song, "we change, we change." But the music is still mine.”

Stills Song Change Mines Music Is Change Is Good

Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“I like the idea that within the structure of the song, some kind of built-in improvisation keeps them fragile and in their moment, so that I'm not projecting so much, so that my perception of the song doesn't interfere with what its real body is. Sometimes it's like telling a story that I heard in passing, and I don't want it to become completely mine.”

Want Kind Ideas Real Sometimes Moments Stories Body Song Heard Mines Perception Built Structure Passing Passings Fragile Interfere Improvisation

Author:Ryan Adams

“Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and staff, my resting place and shield, and not mine only, for art leaves nobody out. Even those from whom art has been stolen away by tyranny, by poverty, begin to make it again. If the arts did not exist, at every moment, someone would begin to create them, in song, out of dust and mud, and although the artifacts might be destroyed, the energy that creates them is not destroyed.”

Ifs World Has Beens Art Moments Might Song Energy Language Poverty Mines Art Is Raises Tyranny Naked Destroyed Rhythm Dust Staff Strokes Brushes Mud Stolen Shields Artifacts Brush Strokes

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine.”

Song Mines Notes Scent Rhyme

Book:At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems

Source: At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems

“Have a go-to pump up song. Mine is Shakira's 'Waka Waka' from the 2010 World Cup (don't judge). Play it only when you're ready to turn into your most badass self.”

World Self Play Song Turns Mines Ready Judging Cups Badass Pumps World Cup Most Badass

Author:Kathryn Minshew

“Now no one will listen to songs. The prophesied days have begun. Latest poem of mine, the world has lost its wonder, Don't break my heart, don't ring out.”

World Heart Song Lost Wonder Break Mines My Heart Rings Breaking My Heart

Author:Anna Akhmatova

“I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.”

Want Writing Kind Real Ends Today Song Records Mines Okay Wake Up Titles Chapters

Author:Lyle Lovett

“When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.”

Ifs Firsts Done Jobs Song Successful Heard Mines First Time Good Job

Author:Lyle Lovett

“I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music... Most of the repertory is love songs, and most of mine isn't. I don't know if that's a mental defect, or shyness, or what.”

Ifs Knows Writing Ideas Different Whole Character Song Written Mines Pops Different Things Unusual Defects Pop Music Shyness

Author:Randy Newman

“Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky; The May-thorn greening in the nook; The minnows sporting in the brook; The bleat of flocks; the breath of flowers; The song of birds amid the bowers; The crystal of the azure seas; The music of the southern breeze; And, over all, the blessed sun, Telling of halcyon days begun.”

May Eye Song Sun Sea Sky Mines Flower Summer Bird Breaths Blessed Southern Breeze Simplest Crystals Flocks Brooks Azure Greening Minnows Halcyon Days

Book:The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir

Source: The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir

“I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.”

Writing Trying Song Results Mines Direct Monday

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“George Jones has been a major part of my personal and professional life for a long time. I have been inspired by his music for the last 50 years and for 42 of those, I had the pleasure of knowing him personally and professionally. He was IT to me. George was and will always be my guy. I am luckier than a lot of people on this Earth because God let me be a part of George's life and him a part of mine. And on this day, his song couldn't be more true: 'He Stopped Loving Her Today.'”

People Years Long Has Beens Today Earth Lasts Guy Song Pleasure Knowing Mines Majors Long Time Let Me Inspired This Day Professional Life George Jones Personal And Professional Life

Author:Sammy Kershaw

“Once a song comes out, these songs aren't mine. They're everybody's. So there you go.”

Author:Mac DeMarco