“I can sort of will that stuff to happen to me if I put myself in the right headspace. Then I can actually get to a space where it won't just be one song that comes through, but a series of them.” IfsI CanHappensSongStuffSpaceSeries Author:Ryan Adams
“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
“My own interest is the responsibility of people to be responsible for their own lives and, with their neighbors, for their public space and actions. To sing their own songs. To make their own inventions..To build and not just to envy. To light that candle which is so much better than cursing the darkness. To be as much as the human condition can sustain, rather than being only what a system can allow.” PeopleHumansLightActionSongInterestMy OwnSpaceResponsibilityDarknessConditionsResponsibleEnvyNeighborInventionCandleHuman ConditionBeing ResponsibleCursing Author:Karl Hess
“If family and society tell you its unfeminine, not really womanly, to be aggressive, to speak up, to have strong opinions, to take up space, then women won't trust their own voice, because to be heard and to be influential, you've got to have a way to sing out with passion and love and self-trust - to sing out your song for everyone to hear.” IfsWaySelfSongPassionSpeakStrongWomenVoiceSpaceOpinionHeardAnd LoveAggressiveInfluentialSelf TrustLove And PassionWomanlyStrong Opinions Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“Two things I'm obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you'll hear me mentioning body parts and human anatomy. I've listened to my songs and I think I am quite visual and I talk about bones and flesh a lot.” ThinkingHumansTwoBodySongSpaceFieldsBonesFleshObsessedVisualsTwo ThingsCountrysideAnatomyOpen Spaces Author:Ellie Goulding
“For me songs are born out of the gray space, the things I don't fully understand, the things that I can't put in my pocket.” I CanSongBornSpacePocketsGray Author:Jon Foreman
“A record is something that isn't real or true. It's like cinema. It's a construction of something hyper-real and surreal and unreal all at the same time. You make a space that doesn't really exist. One of the big joys of being in this line of work is building the recorded versions of the songs.” RealBigsJoySongLinesSpaceRecordsBuildingVersionsCinemaConstructionSurrealUnrealHyper Author:Will Oldham
“Songs Like Mony Mony aren't really written, they're sort of hanging in space - waiting to be found - I'm just thankful we found this one.” SongFoundWaitingSpaceWritten Author:Tommy James
“I have a song I wrote called “Autobiography.” I came from a very intense living situation, with having a parent on drugs and not having a lot of money. So I always want to talk about the real things. But I think 90 percent of my music, I want it to be 'feel-good music'. I'm already recording tracks for my album, but when it comes time to actually say, 'this is the album,' I may be in a completely different space than I'm in right now.” ThinkingWantFeelsMayDifferentRealSongParentSpaceSituationRight NowDrugPercentTrackAlbumsIntenseFeel GoodLots Of MoneyAutobiographyReal Things Author:Nicki Minaj
“Music is mere tuning a song with words; to some degree you have a beautiful endeavor of cosigning God's blank checks and you're actually co-creating. You're certainly not the creator with the capital C, but you're embarking on an endeavor, you're using the building blocks that have been given to you by the author of time and space.” Has BeensBeautifulSongGivenSpaceBuildingDegreesCreatingMusic IsMereCreatorChecksBlockEndeavorBlankTime And SpaceTuningBuilding BlocksEmbarkingBlank Check Author:Jon Foreman
“It's really hard to fit a complex idea into a 3-minute pop song. And when you're dealing with issues that you're passionate about, usually they have various levels. And within a poem, you can get around the issue of space, and in a song the same way, by simply leaving holes and alluding to what you're talking about.” WayIdeasHardSongSpaceLevelsTalkingIssuesMinutesFitComplexesLeavingPassionateVariousPopsHolesPop Song Author:Jon Foreman