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I've said before, if you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!
Colin Trevorrow
You
Song
Better
Before
Earnestly
Sing
Around
Said
Campfire
Going
Muppet
It fascinated me, these kids who would sit in their living room or bedroom or kitchen and sing to the camera and act out the song fully as though they were onstage. Because a lot of musical theater kids... do that alone in your bedroom when you're a kid. But for someone to go and put that online? That's just so embarrassing!
Colleen Ballinger
Alone
Me
You
Song
Sit
Living
Musical
Kid
Musical Theater
Though
Kids
Embarrassing
Out
Would
Someone
Online
Kitchen
Onstage
Put
Sing
Because
Bedroom
Go
Were
Camera
Lot
Just
Theater
Room
Act
Your
Who
Fascinated
Fully
Living Room
I think you really have to remember what you loved about making music in the first place. Ultimately, people can be like, 'We've seen this dude in many movies,' but if they hear a song and they're feeling it, they can look past all the personal things and not hold it against you that you're also an actor.
Common
Music
You
People
Song
Remember
Seen
First
Feeling
Past
Think
About
Like
Look
Also
First Place
Making
Dude
Hear
Ultimately
Personal
Hold
Loved
Place
Against
Personal Things
Movies
Really
Many
Actor
Things
To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic.
Conor Oberst
Me
People
Song
World
Political
Other
Has-Been
More
Driven
Songs
Divisive
Empathetic
Empathy
Most
Also
Make
Been
Personal
Listener
Less
Even
Activism
Desire
When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.
Conor Oberst
Life
You
Song
Memoir
Details
Something
Write
Goal
Going
Convey
Should
Your
You can do a lot to shape the feeling of a song by the way you record it.
Conor Oberst
You
Song
Feeling
Way
Record
Shape
Lot
To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.
Conor Oberst
Best
Song
World
Feeling
Finish
You have those songs that are very special to you that you don't want to get ruined by production. Something like 'Start Again' shouldn't be touched. It's a classic-sounding song on a piano and violins and harmonies, and I think those songs are perfect as they are.
Conrad Sewell
You
Song
Think
Harmonies
Ruined
Those
Something
Touched
Perfect
Piano
Songs
Like
Very
Get
Want
Again
Production
Special
Start
A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music.
Conway Twitty
Life
Music
Good
Song
Somebody
Country
Out
Puts
Takes
Page
Sure, I can sing a country song, but so can a lot of people.
Conway Twitty
People
Song
Country
Sing
Sure
Lot
There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.
Corey Taylor
Good
Great
You
Song
Sometimes
Good Song
Between
Arrangement
Got
Huge
Huge Difference
Hands
Same
Difference
Whereas
Mean
Your
Riff
Riffs
Necessarily
Two
Need
You don't realize how beautiful an idea is until you do it with other people. There's this really shimmery, awesome thing when you start finishing a song - where the song just starts writing itself.
Coy Bowles
Beautiful
You
People
Song
Writing
Awesome
Starts
Other
Finishing
Idea
Until
How
Itself
Just
Where
Realize
Really
Thing
Start
I try to cross as many genres as possible with the same attitude. I want every song to be very clear.
Coy Bowles
Attitude
Song
Try
Every
Possible
Cross
Clear
Genres
Very
Same
Want
Many
It's always hard for me to put the pieces together when listening to a finished album that I was a part of writing and playing. There are so many memories wrapped up in each note and each song that it's hard not to constantly flash back to what made that musical event happen while listening.
Coy Bowles
Me
Memories
Together
Song
Writing
Listening
Made
Finished
Back
Musical
Constantly
Wrapped
Part
Put
Pieces
Always
Up
Flash
Happen
While
Note
Hard
Many
Each
Event
Album
Playing
When I write a song, I get the melody right first, and then hopefully I can back it up with a lyric that has to respect the melody.
Craig David
Respect
Song
First
Lyric
Back
Melody
Hopefully
Write
Up
Get
Then
Right
There's no secret crazy backstory. I actually suck at writing. It takes me forever to write a song.
Cuco
Me
Crazy
Song
Writing
Secret
No Secret
Write
Takes
Forever
Suck
Actually
I think Frank Ocean is a talented artist; I think he's created material that made me know his name, that impressed me, with things he said on a song like 'Novacane.'
Curtis Jackson
Me
Song
Made
Ocean
Think
Frank
He
Name
Talented
Like
Know
Said
Material
His
Impressed
Artist
Created
Things
When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.
Curtis Jackson
Future
Song
First
Out
Entire
Put
Tape
Did
Artist
Where
Cent
Format
I was a very observant child. Almost anything could become a song to me.
Curtis Mayfield
Me
Song
Become
Could
Observant
Almost
Almost Anything
Very
Child
Anything
When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.
Cyndi Lauper
Myself
Song
Stage
Other
Pretend
Someone
Emotion
Perform
Than
Often
Intent
Certain
Bring
I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.
Cyndi Lauper
Song
Record
Like
Any
Some people buy records just to dance to 'em. Some people buy records to listen to the radio. And there's people that buy records 'cause they listen to every song.
DMX
Buy
People
Song
Cause
Dance
Some People
Every
Some
Records
Listen
Just
Radio
I don't have to be working on an album to record a song.
DMX
Song
Record
Working
Album
What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
Daisy Berkowitz
You
Song
Band
Disturbing
About
More
Particular
Always
Hear
Than
Any
Going
When I feel comfortable, I just like to sing and hum, and I don't even know I'm doing it. But sometimes someone will come over to me like, 'I love that song you were singing, but it's distracting.'
Daisy Ridley
Love
Me
You
Song
Sometimes
Will
Singing
Distracting
Someone
Feel
Over
Come
Like
Know
Sing
Comfortable
Doing
Were
Hum
Just
Even
'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers.
Damien Chazelle
Song
Hated
Most
Drummers
Because
Always
Screw
Designed
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