“I'm more interested in pulling out strands of joy from both myself and the audience. I'm not saying the music or songs are "light," just that when they're performed with the correct commitment it's a source of real pleasure, for me anyway.” RealLightJoySongPleasureAudienceSourceCommitmentPullingStrands Author:Michael Gira
“I think when you write songs, you write about people... People are the source of my material. And London is a wonderful place to be for people. So, the next time you're sitting in a park somewhere, and you see someone like me looking at you, don't phone the police. I'm just writing” PeopleThinkingWritingSongNextWonderfulMaterialsSourceSittingPolicePhonesLondonLike MeParksNext TimeWonderful Places Author:Ray Davies
“Being singer is different than being an actor, where you call up sources from your own experience that you can apply to whatever Shakespeare drama you're in. But an actor is pretending to be somebody, a singer isn't. And that's the difference. Singers today have to sing songs where there's very little emotion involved. That and the fact that they have to sing hit records from years gone by doesn't leave a lot of room for any kind of intelligent creativity.” YearsKindLittlesDifferentFactsTodaySongActorsDifferencesRoomsEmotionCreativityGoneRecordsSourceInvolvedDramaIntelligentSingersPretendingYears Gone By Author:Bob Dylan
“There's a whole range of sources of inspiration for the drawings and stories. They come from dreams, hallucinations, pop songs, or other things I see in the world around me.” WorldWholeStoriesDreamInspirationSongSourcePopsDrawingRangeHallucinationsPop SongSource Of Inspiration Author:Ryan McGinness
“At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.” WayBigsSongStageSourceTheaterMusicalPopsOne TimePop SongMusical Theater Author:Neil Tennant
“I source images and ideas from different parts of my experiences, and sometimes they are things that are made-up, or just appear out of nowhere, like out of a dream or an image that I've seen in a book, or even the title of a book that I'm staring at on a shelf. It's a good way to write songs, just stare at a bookshelf!” WayWritingMadeBookIdeasDifferentSometimesDreamSongSourceTitlesStaringShelvesGood WayBookshelves Author:Julia Stone
“I was inspired by people like Joni Mitchell and Carole King and Stevie and "Storytellers." People that could really change the world with their lyric, no matter who sung the song, they had still been the source of that message. So that's what I really aim for.” PeopleWorldStillsMatterSongSourceKingsMessagesAimInspiredChanging The WorldStoryteller Author:Emeli Sande
“I used to go to the school folk club with my songs when I was only 13 or so and say "this is a traditional folk song" and sing it with a bad Irish accent to disguise the real source.” RealSchoolUsedSongSourceFolksClubsTraditionalAccentsDisguiseFolk SongsIrish Accent Author:Mark Knopfler
“William Ferris has long reigned as the unimpeachable source of the entire southern experience. His work on southern folklore and the composition of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture have made him both legendary and necessary. His book, The Storied South , is a love song to the South Bill helped illuminate. It's a crowning achievement of his own storied career.” LongMadeBookSongCultureCareersSourceAchievementBillsSouthSouthernCompositionFolkloreLegendaryEncyclopediaSouthern Culture Author:Pat Conroy
“Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.” WayFeelsSoulSometimesMovingSongActingEmotionSourceMusic IsSingingIncrediblesIntenseYour SoulAmandaIntense Emotions Author:Amanda Seyfried
“This was the first time that he has ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul. He was very far from understanding what he saw. But what was of more value, he felt and suffered with her. In years that were yet to come, he relived this memory in song, in the most beautiful song this world has known. For the understanding of the soul's defencelessness, of the conflict between the two poles, is not the source of the greatest song. The source of the greatest song is sympathy.” WorldYearsFirstsHumansTwoSoulBeautifulValuesSongFeltUnderstandingMemoriesKnownSawsThis WorldSourceConflictFirst TimeHuman SoulLabyrinthGreatest Song Author:Halldór Laxness