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“Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.”

Writing Seems Song Trouble Writing Songs

Author:Marian McPartland

“I'm not trouble at all. I'm just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I'm like every song on the radio.”

Giving Trying Guy Song Girl Trouble Radio Time Of Day Get A Girl

Author:Hailey Abbott

“If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.”

Ifs Want Writing Song Fall Girl Trouble Easier Red Dresses Bars Chairs Tonight Say Anything Fifth Martini Falling Off

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“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.”

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Author:Robert Hilburn

“Safe Harbor is a state of mind... its the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.”

Mind States Reality Song Church Prayer Worry Trouble Safe Garden Metaphor Beach State Of Mind Harbors Times Of Trouble Safe Harbor

Author:Luanne Rice

“A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his conscience provided, of course, that he possesses one. As a performing artist, he will pride himself on timing and other techniques designed to keep the audience in his control ... his respect for genuine folklore reminds him that these changes, and these techniques, may give the audience a false picture of folk music.”

“The whole trouble with a folk song is that once you have played it through there is nothing much you can do except play it over again and play it rather louder. Most Russian music, indeed, consists in ringing changes on this device, skilfully disguised though the fact may be.”

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Author:Constant Lambert

“We're not just a band playing songs, we're a safe place to go forget your troubles.”

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Author:Jaime Preciado

“I never sing a song more than twice because my fear of waning excitement for a piece is part of my troubles. I so rely on vibe, energy and emotions that the technical part occurs to me last.”

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Author:Shelby Lynne

“My reading was good enough to play big-band charts, but I ran into trouble with Claude (Thornhill)'s theme song "Snowfall," which had a repeating bass line in D-flat that was very difficult for me to finger using my self-taught technique. I spent one morning figuring out an alternate fingering, and that started me on the way to learning a better use of the fingerboard.”

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Author:Bill Crow

“I remember writing 'All I Want Is You' and hoping it would get me out of trouble. I haven't stopped writing songs or getting into trouble since.”

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Author:Cheyenne Kimball

“I have this rule: It's like, if you write an amazing, cool song that you mean and then you go put your leather pants on and sing it in front of people; that's OK. But if you put your leather pants on and stand in front of the mirror and go, "Ok, I've got to write a song to fit these pants," then you're in trouble.”

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Author:John Rzeznik

“If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true.”

Ifs Writing Song Hours Half Trouble

Author:Garth Hudson

“When I find myself having that much trouble with a song or a character or a story, I tend to move on.”

Character Stories Moving Song Trouble

Author:Jazmine Sullivan

“I think from a major-label perspective, if you were on the flip side of things and that's the world you were used to working in, your interpretation could be, "Oh, they're having trouble writing songs," when really it's like, "No, I'm not ready to write songs, I don't want to write a song right now, if I did write a song, it would be forced."”

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Author:Beth Ditto

“I make a living from storytelling - if you're a public person and you sing songs about getting married to get a visa, and you are actually doing that, you're gonna end up in trouble.”

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Author:Jens Lekman

“The songs that give you the most trouble become your best songs.”

Giving Song Trouble

Author:Matt Shultz

“I was going through troubles with my marriage, and I was just trying to focus and center myself. I was already rich and famous. I've got to figure out where I want to go and just get this thing aimed. I wrote this song ["Right Now"] and I kept singing it every day .”

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Author:Sammy Hagar