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But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it. Don McLean
Good You Song Old Care About Good Song Cruel Knew Days Know Talking Were Heard Yellow Submarine Times dont Care Old Days
When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn't about the lines themselves - it's about what is between the lines. The song is about what isn't there. Don McLean
People Song About Point Between Missing Pie Lines American Themselves Ask American Pie
If you listen to one of my albums, you can tell I do a lot of different things. In the case of 'Vincent', I thought of his picture 'Starry Night.' It was a beautiful road-map for a song. I used a lot of imagery from that painting. Don McLean
Beautiful You Song Thought Picture Painting Tell Case His Lot Listen Different Used Different Things Starry Things Imagery Albums Night
If you've got a good song, it's easy to play. But you can't make a bad song sound good no matter who you have to play on it. Donald Dunn
Good You Song Matter Bad Easy Good Song Make Got Sound Who Play
One of the most amazing things about 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' is that every song is an original. There are no covers. I think 'Glee' had to deal with forcing covers into their plotlines. That can be difficult to pull off. Donna Lynne Champlin
Crazy Song Amazing Forcing Difficult Every Think About Had Glee Most Most Amazing Deal Amazing Things Covers Off Original Things Pull
A friend of mine called and said they're interested in having you do a song for the new Pokemon. All my kids are grown up, so I'd heard of it, but I didn't really know what it was. Donna Summer
You Song Mine Kids Having New Know Said Heard Friend Up Interested Really Grown Grown-Up
I have amassed an enormous amount of songs about every particular condition of humankind - children's songs, marriage songs, death songs, love songs, epic songs, mystical songs, songs of leaving, songs of meeting, songs of wonder. I pretty much have got a song for every occasion. Donovan
Love Death Marriage Song Love Songs Every Enormous Meeting Pretty About Mystical Songs Particular Occasion Got Leaving Condition Wonder Children Epic Much Amount Humankind
I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it. Donovan
Song Guitar Once Immediately Out Phrase Finish Pick Almost Highly Am Up Form Then Skilled Start
I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Jimmy Page gave me the MOJO Maverick award. I got an Ivor Novella Award for my very first song. Donovan
Me Song First Gave Jimmy Songwriters Hall Rock Got Rock And Roll Fame Very Maverick Roll Mojo Page Award
I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean. Dorothea Benton Frank
Love Song Listening Husband Wine Ocean Sullivan Collect Beach Head Island Always Am Walking Cook
A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy. Dorothy Fields
Buy Song Unhappy Back Must Take Pushes Audience Dialogue Move Story Place Show
A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. Dorothy Fields
Song Out Had Come Always Squeeze Just Tease
The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures. Doug Aitken
Nature Travel Class Song Three Half Creation Defy Ability Minutes Something Structures Economic Perfect Sonnet Opera Short Pop Pop Song
'Planet Caravan' by Black Sabbath is such a delicate song from such a surprising place. Doug Aitken
Song Black Black Sabbath Delicate Sabbath Surprising Place Planet Caravan
When you sit down and there's nothing, and then you write a song and there's something, that's the most extraordinary feeling. Douglas Hodge
You Song Feeling Sit Nothing Down Extraordinary Something Write Most Then
Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mix down. Dr. Dre
Me Song Key Three Engineering Down Once Absolutely Days Mix Mixing Get Done Personally Two
I can remember when I was just, like, about four years old in Compton, and my mother would have me stack 45s, stack about ten of them, and when one would finish, the next record would drop. It was like I was DJ'ing for the house, picking out certain songs and so this song would go after that song. Dr. Dre
Me Song Remember Mother Old Drop Out Would Record About Ten Finish Songs Remember When Picking Like House Go Years Stack Just After Them Next Certain Four
The original version of 'Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang' was made to a Boz Scaggs song; I can't remember the name of the song. Dr. Dre
Song Remember Made Name Version Original
I sequence during the entire recording process. The sequencing changes as I'm recording and as I'm listening. From when I'm, like, four songs in, I start trying to figure out which song should come after which. Which is important, and it changes as the album goes. Dr. Dre
Song Listening Recording Important Changes Out Entire Songs Come Like Trying Goes After Process Which Should Figure Sequence Sequencing Four Start Album
Once a song is done, for me, personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mixdown. Dr. Dre
Me Song Three Once Days Get Done Personally Two
I don't know if I have a favorite song. Duff McKagan
Song Favorite Know
'Mr. Brownstone' is always a fun song to play because it's got that beat, and you see people bouncing. Duff McKagan
You People Song See Beat Bouncing Because Always Got Fun Play
When you know you have a good song, when you're onstage, even if it's just a weird, basic energy, you know your song is good. Duff McKagan
Good You Song Energy Good Song Onstage Weird Know Just Your Even Basic
I'd love to cover an 'Incubus' song. I don't think anybody in a cowboy hat on a country stage has ever done that, and I'd love to be the first. Dustin Lynch
Love Song First Country Stage Think Hat Be The First Cover Cowboy Cowboy Hat Done Anybody Ever
But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good. Dweezil Zappa
Good You Reality Song Guitar Strip Able Voice Write Instruments Just Acoustic Acoustic Guitar Should Away Right
In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis. Dwight Yoakam
Me Memory Song Past Numerous Constant Able Small Cassette Habit Developed Bag Ideas House Years Tape Commit In The Past Keeping Basis
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