“When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song...With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A.” PeopleMenKindFacesSongNamesCollegeNeededCallingDecidedMadMovedVideoCardsThemeLinksTwistsMad MenBusiness Card Author:Allison Williams
“A lot of my songs, they're like puzzle pieces, and there's just one way to put them together. You could, if you needed to, get the scissors out and cut up things to make them work. But I don't want to do that.” IfsWayWantTogetherSongPiecesCuttingNeededOne WayJust OnePuzzlesScissorsPuzzle Piece Author:Ryan Adams
“The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.” WorldSongBornRoomsFictionRecordsNeededComputerPhonesChanging The WorldTied Author:Steve Jobs
“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 learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job when I just turned twenty in 1939 and Alan [Lomax] needed some help. I listened to hundreds of records every week.” HelpingJobsSongRecordsWeekNeededTwentiesLibraryCongressCollectionsTranscribing Author:Pete Seeger
“I don't know if I want to record together again. I go off and on it... In the old days, when we needed an album, Paul and I got together and produced enough songs for it. Nowadays, there's three of us writing prolifically and trying to fit it all into one album.” IfsKnowsWantWritingTryingEnoughTogetherSongThreeMusicRecordsNeededFitMusic IsAlbumsOld DaysTogether Again Author:John Lennon
“The judges say, make it your own, so I just remixed a song if I felt like the piece needed it” IfsSongFeltPiecesJudgingNeeded Author:Blake Lewis