“When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.” ThinkingWritingTryingSometimesCharacterSongTermCreatingThemeVisualsTransfersSoundtracksCreating Characters Author:Marisha Pessl
“Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things that are beyond our intuition. . . . all we can hope for is that our physical descriptions, like a song or a good painting, are a faithful evocation of some ineffable truth.” TryingSongUniverseTermStudyPaintingIntellectualBiggerIntuitionFaithfulDescriptionIneffable Author:Guy Consolmagno
“I probably spent more time listening to albums than writing songs. But I think that gave me all the tricks in terms of wordplay, from how I pronounced my words to the actual delivery.” ThinkingWritingSongTermListeningAlbumsTricksMore TimeDeliveryWriting SongsWordplay Author:Kendrick Lamar
“And I think Taylor Swift is just an exemplary young lady. It's kind of interesting to see what a profound songwriter she is. I don't even think anyone has realized, the long term is going to be the bigger revelation. It's incredible how quickly she writes songs. We've hung out a couple times, we live near each other in Nashville.” ThinkingWritingKindLongYoungSongTermInterestingCoupleBiggerProfoundIncrediblesLong TermRevelationsHungSongwritersNashvilleYoung LadiesExemplary Author:Reese Witherspoon
“The term 'popular culture' always used to mean what the people do - pop songs, folk songs, music in general used to live because people would sing these songs and tell these stories together. Then all of these new technologies came out and it became the work of professionals.” PeopleMeanStoriesTogetherUsedSongCultureTermTechnologyFolksPopsNew TechnologyPopular CulturePop SongFolk Songs Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. No, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. The term "folk singer" has gotten warped.” YearsWellsPersonsPlaySongTermStageBabyArmsSingingStandingGuitarFolksSingersGrandmotherAcousticsMicrophonesAcoustic GuitarOld Song Author:Pete Seeger
“I still prefer to hear [Bob] Dylan acoustic, some of his electric songs are absolutely great. Electric music is the vernacular of the second half of the twentieth century, to use my father's old term.” StillsUseSongFatherTermHalfCenturyMusic IsBobElectricDylanTwentieth CenturyAcousticsVernacular Author:Pete Seeger
“So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.” KnowsSongTermWritten Author:Duncan Sheik
“In terms of love and romance, it just seems less and less like that's ever going to happen again, or be a possibility for me. I feel like I've irrevocably lost so much. You want the surprise, but it gets harder and harder to find, whether we're talking about romance, or somebody else's song, or your own song.” WantFeelsSeemsHappensRomanceSongLostTermTalkingPossibilityHarderSurprise Author:John Maus
“Late night chaining of videos and basically obsessing are rare for me, and often I've never even seen the videos of my favourite songs. That said, in terms of my own personal magic, video has probably rated lower than most music fans.” SaidNightSongTermMy OwnMagicFansLateVideoFavouriteLate NightObsessingMusic FansFavourite Songs Author:Kieron Gillen