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A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.
Brittany Howard
Learning
Song
Those
About
Something
Relive
More
Write
Songs
Over
Like
Got
How
Heartbreak
Than
Necessarily
There's not a whole lot to do in Athens. When I was 13, I just started entertaining myself by writing songs. I'd sit in my room for 10 hours playing the same song, stacking vocals, trying out different drum beats, realizing no one would ever hear this but having so much fun. I guess I got my voice from just doing that so often.
Brittany Howard
Myself
Song
Writing
Sit
Guess
Out
Would
Entertaining
Athens
Vocals
Having
Voice
No-One
Songs
Beats
Drum
Hours
Got
Doing
Hear
Lot
Trying
Same
Often
Just
So Much Fun
Different
Room
Much
Realizing
Fun
Whole
Ever
Started
Playing
All of the drama with my family and me and my mom and the separation between us and all that crazy stuff - I actually wrote about that. I have a song called 'Dear Mom,' and it's about the trials and tribulations with my mom, so I wrote about that and just everything that I've been through.
Brooke Hogan
Mom
Family
Me
Crazy
Trials
Song
Separation
Drama
Everything
Tribulations
About
Through
Between
Stuff
Wrote
Dear
Been
Just
Us
Actually
When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.
Bruce Hornsby
Rights
People
Song
Country
Way
Civil
Civil Rights
Take
Wrote
Move
Wanted
Stand
I suppose when you do it correctly, a good introduction and a good outro makes the song feel like it's coming out of something and then evolving into something.
Bruce Springsteen
Good
You
Song
Correctly
Out
Evolving
Introduction
Something
Feel
Suppose
Like
Makes
Coming
Then
I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.
Bruce Springsteen
Song
Somebody
Out
Rush
Something
Write
Get
Any
Done
Quite
Really
Who
Ever
I think there's only eight songs on 'Born to Run' - I don't think it's much more than 35 minutes long. But as you move into it, where every song comes up in the sequence makes a lot of sense - though we weren't thinking about it; we were going on instinct at the time.
Bruce Springsteen
Time
You
Song
Long
Sense
Every
Think
Thinking
Though
Run
Born
Minutes
About
More
Only
Songs
Instinct
Makes
Were
Lot
Up
Than
Going
Move
Eight
Where
Much
Sequence
Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.
Bruce Sterling
Saying
You
Song
Political
Cynical
Top
Solution
Stay
About
Write
Like
Forever
List
Going
Pop
Pop Song
Many
Illusions
Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.
Bruno Mars
Work
You
Song
Wait
Year
Later
Songwriters
Check
Year Later
Pray
Hit
Get
Going
Might
Then
A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
Bryan Adams
Time
Song
Writing
Writes
Songs
Songwriter
Done
Just
Whereas
Anyone
Anytime
I shouldn't have acted. I didn't exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren't the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame!
Bryce Dallas Howard
Song
Words
School
Kids
Ability
Pretty
School Play
Exhibit
Were
Any
Just
Lame
Acted
Who
Actual
Play
Doing a song that's sassy but kind of has that little flair to it, it's very me.
Brynn Cartelli
Me
Song
Kind
Doing
Very
Flair
Little
Sassy
I hate when I get pinned down to a genre. I have a sound, a lane I want to go down, but I never want to be stuck in my song choices.
Brynn Cartelli
Hate
Song
Down
Stuck
Never
Genre
Sound
Go
Pinned
Get
Want
Choices
Lane
It was right after I dropped the song 'Don't,' and it started to go viral a little bit. That's when I was like, 'Alright, I might have something here.' Actually, I wasn't even going to quit my job, but Timbaland called me - we have a mutual friend - and he was like, 'Yo man, you need to work in Miami.'
Bryson Tiller
Work
Me
You
Man
Song
Job
Viral
Bit
Mutual
Something
He
Dropped
Like
Alright
Go
Friend
Miami
Quit
Going
After
Little
Little Bit
Might
Even
Actually
Right
Here
Started
Need
I can't wait to see someone else from Louisville make a hit song 'cos that'd be dope. I can only imagine how J Cole would feel if somebody just came out of Fayetteville and started booming with some crazy records.
Bryson Tiller
Crazy
Song
Wait
Somebody
Dope
Else
Booming
Out
Would
See
Some
Someone
Only
Records
Feel
Make
How
Came
Hit
Louisville
Just
Started
Imagine
The other day, I woke up, and somebody sent me a screenshot, and it was Sylvester Stallone, Rambo himself. Tweeting my song. 'Rambo.' And I went absolutely nuts in my hotel. Like, I was jumping on the bed screaming.
Bryson Tiller
Day
Me
Song
Somebody
Other
Nuts
Absolutely
Hotel
Like
Himself
Bed
Woke
Up
Jumping
Screaming
Sent
Tweeting
People try to change up my method, but I'm gonna keep doing it the same way I've been doing it: going in the room by myself and making a song.
Bryson Tiller
Myself
Change
People
Song
Try
Way
Making
Doing
Method
Been
Up
Same
Going
Room
Gonna
Keep
I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turner, queen of soul, I started to get that musical essence from that time before I even do my first song.
Burning Spear
Time
Soul
Song
Queen
First
Before
Musical
Favorite
Kind
Brown
Various
Singers
Get
Tina
Tina Turner
Essence
Listen
James
James Brown
Turner
Even
Started
I have a song called 'Decisions' that features Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, John Legend and Common. It's about people who have made a decision to really stand by you as friends.
Busta Rhymes
You
People
Song
Decision
Made
Legend
John
About
Features
Mary
Blige
Friends
Common
Jamie
Decisions
Really
Stand
Who
With every song I have a person in mind who, in a perfect world, would perform with me. Usually I end up not getting that person, and I'm forced to settle for someone else.
Busta Rhymes
Me
Song
World
Mind
Every
Settle
Else
Would
Someone
Perfect
Perfect World
Perform
Forced
End
Up
Person
Getting
Who
It takes so much energy and time to make one song perfect.
CL
Time
Song
Energy
Perfect
Takes
Make
So Much Energy
Much
'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere.
Caitlin Rose
Man
Song
Old
Three
Somewhere
Singing
Few
State
Some
Composite
More
Laying
Inspired
Write
Instantly
Individuals
Altered
Gorilla
Least
His
Verses
Itself
James
James Taylor
Notebook
Taylor
Fun
Chorus
Floor
Actually
Started
Album
Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.
Calvin Harris
You
People
Song
Power
Big
Live
Sick
Way
Staying
Staying Power
About
More
Crowds
Emotion
Put
Know
Also
Tracks
Get
Just
Tune
Clubs
Depth
Certain
Certain Way
Connected
Even
I've never understood why someone does a cover of a song just exactly the same. If you do something, do it a little different so people have a new experience.
Cameron Britton
You
Experience
People
Song
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Someone
Something
Never
New
Does
Understood
Cover
Same
Just
Different
Little
Why
Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.
Cameron Crowe
Music
Home
Great
Song
Challenge
Own
Somehow
Give
Great Music
Powerful
Movie
Fan
Wants
Keep
I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'
Camila Cabello
Day
Crazy
Song
Remember
Old
Say
Wow
Able
About
Poem
Like
Know
Look
Wrote
Felt
Years
Person
Going
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