“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 think for my parents it was like "A Boy Named Sue," the Johnny Cash song. A guy named Sue tries to track down his father to take it out on his father for naming him Sue. And his father says, "Look, I knew I wasn't going to be around. So I gave you the name so that you would grow up strong enough to take the hits and fight back." So I like to believe that's why my parents gave me this stupid name.” ThinkingTryingBelieveLooksEnoughGuySongFightingFatherNamesStrongGrowsParentBoysGrowing UpStupidTrackCashStrong EnoughLike A Boy Author:Domhnall Gleeson
“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
“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
“David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.” IfsWayIdeasFeelingsHomeSongMy OwnHalfSuccessfulStreetsStupidDancingBombsBeing SuccessfulCoveredVansWay HomeHalf WayVan HalenPlaying Someone Author:Eddie Van Halen
“People get strange about whether you've written your own songs, which seems really stupid considering that, especially in Country Music, it's about oral tradition and passing things on and the songs weren't meant to be played by one person and then forgotten.” PeoplePersonsCountrySeemsSongWrittenStupidStrangeTraditionForgottenPassingPassingsMeant To BeConsideringReally StupidOral Tradition Author:Neko Case
“I was always one of these people who is irrationally moved by stupid pop songs.” PeopleSongStupidMovedPopsPop Song Author:Will Sheff
“I was writing a lot of true love songs-true love almost gone wrong but saved at the last moment...Many of the best songs get written in a state of abject misery. I prefer to write fewer songs and have less cataclysmic events in my life...Some hit songs are really stupid, and who knows why they're hits. But a lot of hit songs are really good.” KnowsWritingStatesMomentsLastsSongGoneWrittenEventsStupidMiserySavedFewerReally Stupid Author:Jorma Kaukonen
“Growing up, road trips with Dad were something I hated. Sitting still for hours, singing that stupid song, "100 bottles of beer on the wall. 100 bottles of beer..." Dad, you know, keeping up with the song.” KnowsStillsSongHoursGrowing UpGrowingStupidWallDadSingingSittingBeerHatedBottlesRoad TripSitting Still Author:Christopher Titus
“Dee Dee Dee dosen't mean mentally retarded. It means stupid. This song goes out to all the stupid people out there. Your gonna find this song hilarious, and you don't even know it's about you.” PeopleKnowsMeanSongStupidStupid PeopleRetardedMentally Retarded Author:Carlos Mencia
“I don't just sit down and write all day, or the songs would be weird or stupid. They would be about different stupid thoughts that I go through.” WritingDifferentWould BeSongStupidDown And Author:Syleena Johnson
“I realise I'll have to acquire the ability to speak to my audience in between numbers. I've never had to do that. On the street I only focus on the keyboard settings for my next song, which takes a bit of time and a lot of concentration. So I'll have to develop that new skill, which gives me pause, because I'm afraid I'll say something stupid and disillusion people when they realise I'm an ordinary earthling - in fact, as ordinary as anyone else on this planet.” PeopleGivingFactsSongNextSpeakBitsAbilityNumbersAudienceFocusStreetsStupidPlanetsSkillsOrdinaryGive MeSettingSettingsAcquireConcentrationRealisingPausesKeyboardsDisillusionNew SkillsAbility To Speak Author:Susan Schneider
“In fact I wonder if I should bend my own rules a little and for the sake of writing a good song it doesn't have to been so autobiographical, but that's a stupid rule to live by as some of my favourite artists' songs, they have a song that you think is about their life [which] probably even isn't, but it's a great song.” IfsThinkingShouldWritingLittlesFactsArtistSongMy OwnWonderStupidSakeLive ByFavouriteRules To Live By Author:The Rocket Summer
“It was disturbing to me that an idea or a song could become something so different from what you originally intended. It's like if a friend took a stupid picture of you at a party on their phone, and the next thing you knew, it was on every billboard.” IfsIdeasDifferentSongNextPartyStupidPhonesDisturbingBillboards Author:Beck
“I always have loved music, ever since I was really little. I just loved to sing. I can't really explain it, except maybe - and this is going to sound really stupid - when I would listen to a song it would make me more excited than anything else could.” LittlesI CanSongSoundStupidExcitedReally Stupid Author:Zooey Deschanel
“The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction. If I knew the language enough to know it was a horrible love song with stupid lyrics - like most of the popular songs are today in the English language that I hear - then it would be much more of a turnoff then if it would allow me to interpret it from the expressive capabilities of the vocalizing or of the sound itself, which allows me to create my own meaning for it, which elevates it into a higher piece of work for me.” IfsKnowsImportantEnoughFactsWould BeTodaySongLanguageSoundMy OwnPiecesStupidHigherImportant ThingsHorribleDistractionCapabilityEnglish LanguageExpressivePopular Song Author:Alan Bishop
“I mean the fun part about when Andy Bernard sings on The Office is he usually embellishes the songs in fun, stupid ways. That's just something that I do in life, like in the shower or whatever. So a lot of that stuff is pretty spontaneous.” WayMeanSongFunStuffStupidOfficeShowersSpontaneous Author:Ed Helms
“If you listen to my record, I'm just honest about stupid stuff most normal people wouldn't put in a pop song.” PeopleSongHonestStupidPop Song Author:Kesha
“I think it's something that really speaks in your head - a very strong melody. But at the same time, if the song doesn't have some kind of edge to it, if there isn't something a little off about it or something very intense or loud or abrasive in some way, it just comes off as a stupid pop song.” ThinkingKindSongSpeakStrongStupidIntenseMelodyVery StrongPop Song Author:Mikal Cronin
“My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.” WayWarMightKidsSongSoundStupidNaiveStay With Me Author:Thom Yorke
“Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about science. The best songs have a strong dose of metaphor. Most songs about science don't have that. Like 'She Blinded Me With Science.' It's a stupid song, no offense to Thomas Dolby.” KnowsHas BeensEnoughSongStrongHeardStupidLuckyMetaphorRadioSongwritersOffenseDoseBlinded Author:Greg Graffin