“My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me.” KnowsWritingMeanRealWould BeSongMy OwnOriginalsMy FavoriteTunesFavorite SongFavorite Music Author:Paul McDonald
“The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.” DreamFormSongLinesChildhoodRocksOriginalsAlbumsDrawingBunchPunkRock And RollDreams Come TrueInfluentialChildhood Dreams Author:Gerald Caiafa
“By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy” WritingMeanSongChurchGenerationsCrazyOriginalsNeglectNew Songs Author:N. T. Wright
“The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.” PeopleJobsSongOrderAudienceOriginalsHaggard Author:Randy Owen
“In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone else's song, has a responsibility to make a distinct and original statement.” IfsPlaySongLove IsResponsibilityMusicianOriginalsJazzStatementsInterpretationImitationClassical MusicJazz MusicMusic LoveJazz Musician Author:Todd Boyd
“I'm trying to separate myself from other people by having songs that would be considered - technically - original things. I don't seek out mashups. I'm associated with the whole mashup movement, and it's too bad because I'm not a huge fan of them.” PeopleTryingWholeWould BeSongFansMovementHugeOriginalsMashups Author:Girl Talk
“Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.” PurposeSongOriginals Author:Peter Tork
“We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying for the songs we hear; we hear friends humming tunes that they have not licensed. We tell jokes that reference movie plots without the permission of the directors. We read our children books, borrowed from a library, without paying the original copyright holder for the performance rights.” WorldChildrenBookSongRightsDirectorsJokesPerformancesOur ChildrenOriginalsLibraryRadioTunesPlotImperfectionPermissionBorrowedCopyrightHummingChildren BookChildrens Book Author:Lawrence Lessig
“Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of an original, creative imagination, alive with humor and heartbreak and irony and intelligence, with truth and beauty in the details. Deep stuff. And they get better every time you listen to them.” WorldHumansLooksHeartSoulEyeArtistSongStuffImaginationCreativeAliveOriginalsDetailsIronyGet BetterPeterHuman HeartHeart And SoulCreative ImaginationTruth And Beauty Author:Kris Kristofferson
“I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in the style of songs that I grew up with.” SongCasesStyleGrewGrew UpOriginalsTunesComposerStolen Author:Tom Lehrer
“Due to people's health, and certain things that have happened to people's physicality because of their healthy, that would probably keep us from touring per se. It doesn't mean that the original band wouldn't someday do a song. But our focus is on the current band, and moving into the future, as far as touring is concerned.” PeopleMeanMovingCertainSongFocusHappenedHealthyBandConcernedOriginalsCurrentsDuesSomedayTouringPhysicality Author:Phil Ehart
“I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.” PeopleThinkingSongMy OwnAudienceSingingOriginalsCompetition Author:Birdy
“Once I grew up and realised 'What am I doing?' I started re-listening to the music I was playing and I realised there was so much finesse - it was dynamic and simple but I wanted to be authentic to the original songs.” WantedSongSimpleListeningGrewGrew UpOriginalsRealisedFinesse Author:Eric Hernandez
“I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93.” WritingDreamLastsSongRiversOriginalsAlbumsTunesWriting SongsWriting Music Author:Billy Joel