“I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.” ThinkingWritingTryingYearsTogetherSongSeeingFitHealthyShapesRiversChordsFoldsLennon Author:Andrew Dost
“The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard.” PeopleFacesSongSeeingHeardExpressionTablesGet UpBest ThingsEducateDjsMaking People Happy Author:Chelsea Leyland
“I love writing songs with people, which is about really taking risks, throwing yourself over the falls and really seeing what you're made of and seeing how it sticks. Seeing how others react to it, and seeing also how it can become a melody and how it can really take off from your experience. It's a way of seeing life unfold on the page before me.” PeopleWayWritingMadeSongFallSeeingRiskPagesSticksMelodyThrowingWriting SongsTaking Risks Author:Jason Mraz
“I actually hear into life - seeing everything that's occurring as a conversation with God in some form. So it really is the next song on the radio - a chance utterance of a friend on the street - it really is what's happening right now. I stop and think, 'What is life trying to tell me right now?' And "What does my soul know about this?'” ThinkingKnowsTryingDoeSoulFormSongNextChanceSeeingStreetsRight NowConversationHappeningsRadioMy SoulUtteranceWhat Is LifeConversations With God Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“I try not to write songs. I would rather emote them, and I found myself going back to my room every night while on my trip, just pouring out new songs and new stories about what I was seeing, what I was feeling.” WritingTryingStoriesFeelingsNightSongFoundRoomsSeeingEvery NightPouringNew SongsEmote Author:Jason Mraz
“Wherever inspiration comes from, it's like I'll hear a melody and chords, almost a rough structure of the whole thing [song]. I'll just hear it and chase what's in my head. The rest comes from jamming with band, improvising, seeing what comes up as well. I'll come up with it off the top of my head, catch it, sing and hum, and if something is missing, just jam, and that's the [songwriting] process.” IfsWellsWholeInspirationSongProcessSeeingMissingBandStructureCome UpRoughMelodySongwritingWriting ProcessChordsJamImprovising Author:Chris Wyse
“My song are more about the practical message of not wearing ourselves out just to get rich and looking at what life is really about and enjoying each and every day as opposed to the opposite of that. About living your life in a freer sense and not being bound by what people think of you and looking forward to seeing the grander scheme of who God is, what He's done and what He's doing and what He'd going to do.” PeopleThinkingDoneLife IsSongEnjoyRichSeeingMessagesOppositesBoundsPracticalsSchemesLive Your LifeLooking ForwardThink Of YouGet RichWho God Is Author:Peter Furler