“If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.” IfsWayShouldLooksDifferentSongRoomsTalkingPiecesInformationDesignPaperUniqueShould HaveEightBarsKicksFormulasArchitectBlankInitials Author:Ryan Tedder
“I like challenging myself. I like the challenge of rapping to fast beats, rapping to beats that are super slow, whatever. I like the challenges, so I'm not afraid to take on any piece of music and create a song to it if it feels right to me.” IfsFeelsSongChallengesPiecesBeatsRapNot AfraidFeels RightChallenging Myself Author:Will Ferrell
“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
“I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.” WritingLittlesDoneKidsSongPiecesPaperLittle KidWriting Songs Author:Chris Carmack
“I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'” PeopleArtSongBitsSidesCitiesPiecesPerformancesRadioPopsQueensCall MeEccentricPop MusicGagaPerformance ArtQueen Song Author:Lady Gaga
“Most of the producers I work with are decent mixers. We'll wind up in these spots where I'll get the mix back and I'll put a few more pieces of production together and send it back to the mixer. It's so easy to change the entire perspective of the song by changing the mix.” TogetherSongEasyPiecesWindPerspectiveProductionsProducersSpotsDecent Author:Yukimi Nagano
“Pete Townsend for me was a huge influence. Because essentially they were a three-piece band and the way he structured his chords and took up a lot of space musically in the songs was really important to the way Rush developed. Geddy and Neil both were such active players and lot of the time we were all playing like crazy and it was too much and somebody had to reel it in and me being the faceless guy, I would do that.” WayImportantGuySongThreeSpaceToo MuchPiecesPlayerCrazyInfluenceHugeBandActiveChordsFaceless Author:Alex Lifeson
“The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music.” SongRecordsPiecesMinutes Author:Girl Talk
“I like to go for a certain over-the-top opulence when naming the drone pieces whereas the song titles are all about concision, I guess. I mean, if I were truly a purist, I'd call things, "Long Piece #27" or "Newest Fast Song", but I enjoy titling and it is helpful at rehearsals or when making set-lists.” IfsMeanLongCertainSongEnjoyPiecesListsTitlesHelpfulRehearsalOne PieceDronesOver The TopOpulenceSong Titles Author:David First
“I'm always making music. I'm constantly making little musical recordings on my phone or on a little voice recorder I carry with me so I can remember these little pieces of music that eventually becomes songs.” LittlesI CanRememberSongVoicePiecesMusicalPhonesRecorders Author:James Taylor
“I have never written a musical. I have never written a weird, interactive piece of theater. I wanted to do something that would be disturbing. It will be disturbing theater with songs. There will be no people on wires. That's probably the next one of those things on my bucket list of things that I need to write before I get hit by that car.” PeopleNeedsWritingWould BeWantedSongNextPiecesWrittenCarTheaterMusicalListsWireDisturbingBucketsThe Next OneInteractiveBucket List Author:Neil Gaiman
“When you first sit down to write the first song, until you've maybe got three or four under your belt, it's always, to me, like a mountain to climb. You look at that one blank piece of paper and you think, `God, how many songs do I have to write here?' It always feels like pressure.” ThinkingFeelsWritingFirstsLooksSongThreePiecesFourMountainPaperPressureClimbsBlankBelts Author:Martin Gore
“Regardless of its purpose, the humpback-whale song is the most complex piece of nonhuman composition on earth. Whether it's art, prayer, or booty call, the humpback song is an amazing thing to experience firsthand, and I suspect that even once the science of it is put to bed, it will remain, as long as they sing, magic.” LongArtEarthPurposeSongPrayerPiecesMagicBedComplexesSuspectsCompositionAmazing ThingsWhalesBootyHumpback Whales Author:Christopher Moore
“A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song.” BookLightSongBlackBehindsExistenceDarknessFirePiecesBuildingWindPagesShotsEmptyMovedFilledNotesStormEveningDesertStillnessAshesTruestDeliberationCadenceFlareSwirlsDaintyUnread BooksPrancing Book:Frost and Fire Source: Frost and Fire
“Andy Wiliams' smooth voice and casual style turned the songs he sang into timeless classics and made him one of America's top pop singers. ... The entertainment industry has lost a giant piece of its living history today, but Williams' legacy will forever be enshrined in the annals of music and television.” MadeTodayAmericaSongLostVoiceForeverPiecesStyleTelevisionIndustryEntertainmentPopsSingersLegacyGiantsSmoothTimelessCasualEntertainment Industry Author:Neil Portnow
“I always tell up-and-coming DJs you have to really love what you do and find that interest to drive you. It requires so much attention to detail, and it takes up a lot of your time. You hear a song, and there are so many little pieces that make that song work. It requires a lot of patience, diligence and resilience.” LittlesSongInterestAttentionPiecesDetailsResilienceWorking ItDiligenceDjsAttention To Detail Author:Steve Aoki
“For me, I want to create a environment for the songs to live in. So one song by itself only tells a piece of the story, but in the context of the album, more of the colors are revealed.” WantStoriesSongEnvironmentPiecesColorAlbums Author:Jon Foreman
“My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then arranged them for part choir and accompanied them on piano, and then told the young people of their country, "Don't change a note, this is our sacred heritage." Father said, whether it's a fiddle tune or a gospel song, learn it right off the record from the people who grew up with it. Don't just learn it from a piece of paper.” PeopleSaidCountryYoungSongFatherMistakeRecordsPiecesCenturyGrewPaperGrew UpSacredNotesPianoRepeatsTunesHeritagePeasantsDon't ChangeChoirFiddleGospel Songs Author:Pete Seeger
“Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.” WritingSongPiecesMissingPerfectionExtrasNever QuitMissing Piece Author:Alex Turner
“I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.” ThinkingMindLongFormSongSpeakLanguagePieces Author:Steve Hackett
“For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, "Where's your home?" I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be.” IfsThinkingSoulHomeHappensSongAsksPiecesAsk MeSoilClosestSweetheartClosest FriendsMy Sweetheart Author:Pico Iyer
“When I have just sat down and tried to write the lyrics of a song, usually about half of it sounds like bullshit. I just have to go away from something and come back to it again later. I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.” WritingLittlesTogetherSongSoundHalfForeverPiecesPersonalityDown AndFinishedMoodSatGoing AwayTake MeBullshitEditingSwitching Author:Matt Berninger
“For me, as a music fan, visuals kind of steal away the purity of the song. My instinct is not to provide a visual to go with a piece of music. But here's MTV. It's really powerful.” KindSongPowerfulPiecesFansInstinctStealingPurityVisualsMtvReally PowerfulMusic Fans Author:Michael Stipe
“I don't feel super attached to a certain time when I hear the music. Some of the songs I still play live and, through that I feel like I've been able to have it move with me through my life as opposed to being just a little piece of time.” FeelsLittlesStillsPlayAbleMovingCertainSongPieces Author:Angel Deradoorian
“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
“I never sing a song more than twice because my fear of waning excitement for a piece is part of my troubles. I so rely on vibe, energy and emotions that the technical part occurs to me last.” LastsSongEnergyEmotionPiecesTroubleExcitementRely Author:Shelby Lynne
“I can write for weeks or months sometimes and edit it down to a song. I feel like it's a piece of music that will hopefully stand the test of time and hopefully capture a moment in history if I'm doing it correctly and honestly.” IfsFeelsWritingI CanSometimesMomentsSongPiecesWeekMonthsTestsHonestlyHopefullyCaptureEditsTest Of Time Author:Macklemore
“If someone asked me if I could have anything in the world, what would l want? If l could own anything, like owning a piece of art, l think it would be Elton John's publishing, on his first seven albums. I don't want the money. Being able to own those songs Is like owning a painting of someone you admire.” IfsThinkingWorldWantFirstsArtWould BeAbleSongPiecesPaintingSevenAlbumsAdmireIf I CouldPublishing Author:Axl Rose
“I always look for a "rhythm" in my writing. A cadence to the sentences. Sometimes I think of pieces I write in a song writing infrastructure - i.e., a verse, a chorus that I return to, a bridge that's something differenct, a chorus that I return to.” ThinkingWritingLooksSometimesSongPiecesReturnSentencesRhythmBridgesVersesInfrastructureChorusCadence Author:Mitch Albom