“It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.” PeopleIfsFeelsUseArtistSongAsksDecisionNiceHow You Feel Author:Jared Leto
“Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?” IfsWritingUseSongVisionVision Of Life Author:Rufus Wainwright
“Treat each guitar track-and each song-completely different. For example, if I'm using a certain amp and guitar on one track, I'll deliberately use something else for the next tune or overdub.” IfsDifferentUseCertainSongNextExampleTreatsGuitarTrackTunes Author:Keith Richards
“I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.” WayWritingTryingUseShowsCertainSongGivenDifferencesResponsibilityTalkingFansListeningRadioMaking A DifferenceWriting Songs Author:Randy Owen
“I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.” PeoplePlayUseWould BeSongFineInstrumentsJazzTraditionalOffendedCharlieOffended You Author:Kenny G
“I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'” ThinkingWritingHardUseSongLeftStudiosNine Author:Jessie J
“He [Johnny Cash] always wanted to use his music to lift other people up, to say no matter how much trouble, there's hope. That was always his message in his songs. That's why he and [Bob] Dylan bonded so much, because they were both trying to do something meaningful.” PeopleTryingMatterUseWantedSongTroubleMessagesMeaningfulLiftsCashBobDylan Author:Robert Hilburn
“My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not to make some statement about the harp - somehow has ... coloured people's interpretations of the music and projected an idea of childlike or fairytale quality or innocence. Which sometimes prevents people from listening to the songs the way I would like them to be listened to.” PeopleWayIdeasSometimesUseSongVoiceQualityListeningStatementsInnocenceCombinationInterpretationFairytaleChildlikeHarps Author:Joanna Newsom
“The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song.” UseSongModernSpeechPoetry IsHeresy Author:Herbert Read
“I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a pitiful excuse for their own self-serving publicity. In response to their protests, I will provide a show where I balance my songs with a wholesome Bible reading. This way, fans will not only hear my so-called, violent point of view, but we can also examine the virtues of wonderful 'Christian' stories of disease, murder, adultery, suicide and child sacrifice. Now that seems like 'entertainment' to me.” WayNeedsChildrenStillsSelfStoriesUseShowsSeemsChristianSongReadingReligiousViewsVirtueWonderfulSacrificeGroupsAtheismFansBalanceDiseaseTragedyMurderSuicideResponseEntertainmentExcusePositive AtheismPoint Of ViewViolentProtestServingAmazedAdulteryPublicityPitifulSelf ServingBible Reading Author:Marilyn Manson
“A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that.” PeopleWritingKindPhilosophyCharacterUseBodySongStarsInfluenceRocksStyleShapesLifestyleAll KindsDevicesRock StarInfluencing People Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview
“It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.” UseSongInterestBandConflictConflict Of Interest Author:Martin Gore
“I often use music as a handle for very emotionally explosive substances: love, sex, God, fear, doubt, politics, the economics of the soul - these are daunting thoughts in the back of my mind that I rarely visit without the safety gloves of song.” MindSoulUseSongSexDoubtEconomicsSafetyHandleSubstanceGlovesOf My MindExplosives Author:Jon Foreman
“Take a bunch of little kids to the beach and they all make art. Adults are too stupid to call it art, but it is art. They'll use their imaginations, make drama, make up characters, make pictures in the sand, they'll make up songs that no one's ever heard before. All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.” ThinkingLittlesArtCharacterUseKidsSchoolSongImaginationCreativeHeardStupidDramaAdultsBunchBeachSandLittle Kid Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie
“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
“Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?” MenMayChildrenLittlesLongStatesUseShowsSongSpeakTeachGraceHe ManPoetWeightLet MeSoldierTongueProseVersesAccentsForeigners Book:An Essay on Man: And Other Poems Source: An Essay on Man: And Other Poems
“Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.” WantGivingKindIdeasStoriesUseCertainSongEssentialsInspiredMood Author:Wes Anderson
“Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.” KnowsWritingMindStillsUseSongKnow HowTunesWorking ItAuto Tune Author:T-Pain
“I want to use songs that everybody knows or thinks they know. I want to show them a different side of it and open up that world in a more unique way. You have to believe what the words are saying and the words are as important as the melody. Unless you believe the song and have lived it, there's little sense in performing it. I never wanted to be a singer that” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayWantBelieveLittlesImportantDifferentUseShowsWantedSongSidesUniqueSingersPerformingMelodyDifferent Sides Author:Bob Dylan
“The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world. I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me. But, I think it just came from being affected by strong, personal art.” ThinkingWorldWritingArtStillsUseSongStrongPowerfulSceneMusic IsAvailableHopefullyAffectedPower Of MusicStrong PersonMost Inspiring Author:Cameron Crowe
“When I'm singing a song on stage, I hate hypocrites. If you don't put yourself in that lyric and emote and be what that lyric says that you are, then you're just going through the motions and you're being hypocritical. I just take that same approach with acting. I just take the dialogue and I emote it and become that. I use the same technic.” IfsUseHateSongActingStageApproachSingingI HateDialogueHypocriteHypocriticalEmote Author:Trace Adkins
“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 write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.” WritingUseSongPowerfulSceneHopefully Author:Cameron Crowe