“I feel much more physically connected to my voice, and I like the physicality of the voice, and how the voice can physically occupy a song.” FeelsSongVoiceConnectedPhysicality Author:Will Oldham
“For me, the good songs are the ones that come really naturally. There are certain songs that you rework and rewrite and the craft becomes very evident, but a lot of times those aren't my favorite songs. The favorite songs are the ones that I can't even hear my own voice in.” I CanCertainSongVoiceMy OwnMy FavoriteCraftsEvidentFavorite SongRework Author:Jon Foreman
“I think my favorite medium is music, with my main tools being my voice and a guitar. But I do find every other medium extremely fulfilling and useful in helping everything I do. Sometimes I need to make a song just for a comic. All of the art and mediums are connected for me.” ThinkingNeedsArtSometimesHelpingSongVoiceToolsGuitarMy FavoriteConnectedMediumsComicFulfilling Author:Gerard Way
“Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.” PeopleMenWayNeedsFeelsHelpingSongVoiceKnownListeningSingingReally GreatSad SongVoice Singing Author:Patty Griffin
“Music will always be apart of my life, I have been given a gift of song and voice and I have to use it. I don't have a mapped out time when I should hang up my mic because what I may think is my time may very well be a time to continue.” ThinkingShouldWellsMayHas BeensUseSongGivenVoiceMy TimeHang UpsMics Author:Mandisa
“I sing the best when I'm really in my voice. It's kind of like I'm meditating but I sort of imagine my voice as a physical thing. I see colours, I feel it moving out of me and I try to tap into images that I was tapping into when I was writing the song.” FeelsWritingTryingKindMovingSongVoiceImagineColourMeditatingTappingMoving OutPhysical Things Author:Brett Dennen
“The beauty of having a studio is I can go in and record any time I want to, so you can always put down your ideas or whatever. You use your voice recorder and, you know, take your voice notes down and just preserve all the little jewels and gems when you're in there, putting that song together.” KnowsWantLittlesI CanIdeasUseTogetherSongVoiceRecordsDown AndNotesStudiosPreservesJewelsGemsRecorders Author:Big Boi
“I will be gone from here and sing my songs/ In the forest wilderness where the wild beasts are,/ And carve in letters on the little trees/ The story of my love, and as the trees/ Will grow letters too will grow, to cry/ In a louder voice the story of my love.” LittlesStoriesSongGrowsVoiceGoneTreeCryLettersForestsBeastWildernessWild Beasts Book:The Eclogues of Virgil Source: The Eclogues of Virgil
“Where are now the warriors of the world of the spirit? Where are those who raise their voices for truth, who lead us to goodness, beauty, strength and health? Where are those who utter heartwarming words, who will lead us out of the wilderness? Our homes are gone and the nation is destroyed, yet we have no Jeremiah crying out his last sad song to the world and to posterity.” WorldHomeLastsSpiritSongNationsVoiceGoneCryHeroGoodnessRaisesDestroyedWarriorWildernessPosterityHeartwarmingSad SongJeremiah Author:Lu Xun
“I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.” SongVoiceCourageTearsYieldCrocodilesSirensHyenas Author:George Chapman
“The songs that I sing and the songs that I write have always just been what I feel my voice does well, and what my inspirations have been and a kind of culmination of everything.” FeelsWritingWellsKindDoeHas BeensInspirationSongVoiceCulmination Author:Josh Groban
“I guess my voice kind of changed in middle school. It was what it is now. I remember there was this boy who used to walk behind me and sing that song that goes, "Walk like a man, talk like a man" and I was devastated. So I learned that I can pick up my voice if I want to.” IfsMenWantKindI CanSchoolRememberUsedSongVoiceWalksBehindsBoysMiddleChangedPicksDevastatedMiddle School Author:Dianna Agron
“I have a voice that's obviously untrained - and I think untrainable - so I kind of secreted it away for a long time. Actually, I would write songs with lyrics when I was younger, but I would just sing in my head.” ThinkingWritingKindLongSongVoiceLong Time Author:Joanna Newsom
“I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through a character, so the character gives voice to something or their story, the story of the character tells you something, but, for me anyway, it's really hard to write directly about politics.” ThinkingGivingWritingKindLittlesHardCharacterStoriesSongBitsVoiceLittle BitPursueAgendas Author:David Byrne
“Even before I wrote any songs, I had this idea of a triangle where the voice was at the top, some sort of guitar element on one side, and then some sort of really basic rhythm on the other side. That's where I started from in the recording process.” IdeasSongProcessSidesVoiceElementsGuitarRhythmTriangles Author:Panda Bear
“To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing.” SongVoiceReturnBird Book:Collected poems and plays of Rabindranath Tagore Source: Collected poems and plays of Rabindranath Tagore