“I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.” PeopleSongStuffEnjoyFrontsStupidInvolvedSingingAlbumsArtwork Author:Frank Ocean
“I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.” PeopleKnowsWantGivingWellsTwoPlayShowsSongStuffMaterialsGive MeAlbumsBalancedArchivesRecitals Author:Kate Voegele
“I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.” SongStuffFantasyWritten Author:Don McLean
“I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.” FeelsWritingI CanPastSongStuffFeel Better Author:Amy Winehouse
“I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.” WayTryingPlaySongStuffImpactStudiosContinuingNew WaysPositive Impact Author:Stone Gossard
“It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear.” PeopleSongStuffCompanyWrittenBad Company Author:Mick Ralphs
“I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate number of one hit wonders from the early '80s and lots of hair bands. I find it utterly impossible to love a song until I know every single word, so listening to live music or new bands is pretty much out.” KnowsWholeSongStuffNumbersWonderImpossibleHairListeningBandIncludingAwful80sIpodsSingle WordLive MusicBad MusicHair Bands Author:Lauren Weisberger
“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
“Once you've heard the joke, it's not funny anymore, but it's the way it's told. And I think that's the same with the music: The reason some of my songs have lasted longer is there's a lot of stuff packed in there. You want to hear them more than once.” ThinkingWayWantReasonSongStuffHeardJokes Author:Tom Lehrer
“My mom and I are very honest with each other, almost to a fault. But that's just the way I am in life. If you listen to my record, I'm just honest about stupid stuff most normal people wouldn't put in a pop song.” PeopleIfsWaySongStuffRecordsHonestStupidMomNormalFaultsMy MomPopsPop Song Author:Kesha
“My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've always had instruments around the house. He used to have a show like a 1950s rock and roll show with Little Richard music. They would do doo-wop songs and stuff like that.” LittlesShowsUsedMotherSongFatherHouseStuffRocksDadMusicianInstrumentsMy DadSingersLatinRock And RollBrooklyn Author:Bruno Mars
“I'm a reader, so when I go to bookstores I need (stuff) that's going to help me. There a big emptiness there and I want to help fill that through song.” WantNeedsHelpingBigsSongStuffReaderEmptinessHelp MeBookstores Author:Nas
“My favourite song is Someone To Love. That is more like me than the other stuff, as it was the only one I was actually able to create from the bottom up. I call it an homage, not a remake. It is an homage to Freddie Mercury, because I don't think people can really remake Freddie Mercury. That's why we did a gospel version.” PeopleThinkingAbleSongStuffBottomLike MeVersionsFavouriteHomageRemakesMercuryFavourite Songs Author:Brittany Murphy
“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 record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time.” WritingLittlesSometimesSongStuffRecordsStuckVocalRandom Things Author:Ellie Goulding
“I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.” PeopleWritingWantedSongHouseNamesStuffMy OwnFiveHappenedStreetsSixIntentionAlbumsStudiosReleaseFighterWriting SongsDemosFoo Fighters Author:Dave Grohl
“When you play the bars, you pay your dues. It does matter that you know those things [songs]. And the great thing for me, too, is that I draw on that stuff as influences. It's also stuff that you put in the tank that you pull from to make records.” KnowsDoeMatterPlaySongStuffPayRecordsInfluenceDrawsDuesBarsGreat ThingsTanks Author:Eric Church
“In the years that Ive seen concerts, when Ive paid to see somebody I want to see, there would be a certain amount of songs Id want to hear. So whether its stuff I want to play every night or not - or stuff Ive been playing for years or stuff you get tired of playing - you have to play what people pay for and make it fair for them.” PeopleWantYearsPlayWould BeNightCertainSongStuffPayAmountFairsPaidTiredConcertsEvery Night Author:Toby Keith
“I was a B.I.G. fan. I like all of his stuff. I don't really have a favorite song. They all are good, and each brings different memories to me. And you can still listen to it to this day and it means something.” MeanStillsDifferentSongStuffMemoriesFansThis DayFavorite Song Author:Martin Lawrence
“Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. We wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way. A folk song has over a thousand faces and you must meet them all if you want to play this stuff. A folk song might vary in meaning and it might not appear the same from one moment to the next. It depends on who's playing and who's listening.” IfsWayWantPlayMomentsMightFacesLife IsLyingSongNextStuffListeningDependsThousandComfortableFolksVaryFolk SongsTruth About Life Book:Chronicles Source: Chronicles
“I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of great songs. I mean, the Brad Paisley's, Alan Jackson especially, even Taylor Swift - those people can really pen great stuff.” PeopleThinkingWritingMeanSongStuffWonderAlbumsPensBradPaisley Author:Joe Nichols
“The main thing you worry about is just coming up with songs at all. I don't sit down and write stuff like certain writers do. They think about what they are going to write first and then they write it. I just get what comes in at me. It's like I'm a musician and if I can keep my mitt on, I can catch the balls that come at me.” IfsThinkingWritingFirstsI CanCertainSongStuffWorryMusicianBallsDown And Author:Steven Tyler
“Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin, because you got to persevere despite the fact that people tell you you shouldn't do this or you shouldn't do that or you're not good enough or your style's too different. I've heard all of that stuff.” PeopleIfsWritingKindDifferentEnoughFactsSongStuffHeardStyleDeterminationSkinsDespiteGood EnoughThickPersevereNot Good EnoughThick Skin Author:John Legend
“It's always been about the songs for us. It doesn't matter about all the image stuff. We're really about making songs that people can relate to, that we love, that they will love, that we will enjoy playing live.” PeopleMatterSongStuffEnjoyRelate Author:Chuck Comeau
“It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff.” WritingHardSongEasyStuffDifficultSadnessMiseryHard Times Author:Elton John
“When I first started making music, it was learning other peoples songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.” WritingFirstsIdeasUsedSongStuffSidesFourSingingTrackProductionsMelodyVehicleLyrical Author:M. Ward
“We've had musical stuff in the show [South Park] forever. That's mostly because Trey's a big musical fan, and he's a great songwriter. He's been writing songs his whole life. So since the beginning, we've always put a lot of musical moments.” WritingWholeMomentsShowsBigsSongStuffForeverFansSouthMusicalWhole LifeParksSongwritersWriting Songs Author:Matt Stone
“As soon as you start to think of that thing that you want to convey or say, you can always just say it much better than you can actually rhyme it or stuff it into a song. It's very, very difficult to just kind of get your point across without going the back way. And you have to be good at that, to not think about things so hard. Let the pen take over, so that it's somebody else's job to dissect the lyrics and tell you what you're all about.” ThinkingWayWantKindHardJobsSongStuffDifficultBe GoodPensRhymeBetter Than You Author:Ariel Pink
“When I start writing songs, and they come easily, I'm always very suspicious. That usually means they're reminding me of something I've already done before. When the songs become unsettling, and I feel anxious about what I'm doing, that usually means it's going to be more interesting later on when we actually record the stuff.” FeelsWritingMeanDoneSongStuffInterestingRecordsAnxiousSuspiciousWriting SongsReminding Author:Nick Cave
“Although I'm a huge fan of Ben Kweller, I don't think I'd cover one of his songs, simply because there's just so much of my own stuff I wanna do.” ThinkingSongStuffMy OwnFansHuge Author:Juliana Hatfield
“I never play all new stuff, because you got to "dance with the girl that brought you" what is that saying? You got to play the songs that got you there, so I love playing the songs from my very first record.” FirstsPlaySongGirlStuffRecordsNew Stuff Author:Mat Kearney
“If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them. We go to countries like Germany, where I can't imagine that all of my fans are engaging with the lyrics first and foremost. I think they're catching a vibe, a feeling. I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back and telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantFirstsI CanCountryPlayFeelingsSongStuffImagineFansFineSittingGladGermanyImagine ThatEngagingCatchingLyricists Author:John Darnielle
“The songs themselves sometimes have messages and people can read into them different ways, but I try to use concerts as a way to gather people and then have information there. I think that's important to find that balance, a way to be able to turn people on to things at the shows, but also just have it be an entertainment experience for people who just want to hear music and dance and don't want the extra stuff.” PeopleThinkingWayWantTryingImportantDifferentSometimesUseShowsAbleSongTurnsStuffInformationBalanceMessagesEntertainmentDifferent WaysExtrasConcertsMusic And Dance Author:Jack Johnson
“I watch videos on YouTube of bands that I've heard of that I want to check out. And sometimes I don't even finish the video. And that's really sad, because maybe I'd like that song. I think that we don't give stuff a chance to really sink in.” ThinkingWantGivingSometimesSongStuffChanceWatchesHeardBandChecksVideoYoutubeReally Sad Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. That was the stuff that really got me into music. Song writing wise, bands like Alkaline Trio were very important to me for beginning to write songs.” WritingImportantSongStuffSidesBoysWiseRocksGrewBandGrew UpPunkPunk RockRock BandsMisfitsTrios Author:Andy Biersack
“I think you can hear the struggles and hear a realness in Theocracy songs, a human element that you don't get from a lot of the typical Christian stuff.” ThinkingHumansChristianSongStuffStruggleElementsTypicalTheocracyRealness Author:Matt Smith
“Typing in the name of a song and downloading the song you really have no connection with the artist at that point. So I think it is still important to have physical CDs and stuff like that.” ThinkingStillsImportantArtistSongNamesStuffConnectionsCdsTyping Author:Jason Aldean
“Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.” PlaySongTurnsStuffErrorsTrialsTapeListen To Your HeartTrial And ErrorRecorders Author:Levon Helm