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It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album.
Dwight Yoakam
Great
Together
Song
Writing
Great Deal
Recording
Looking
Collaborated
Varies
Buck
Studio
New
Looking Forward
Track
Although
Deal
Am
Duet
Anticipation
Forward
Album
Recently
To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track.
Dwight Yoakam
Great
Me
You
Song
Guitar
Strong
Recording
Backbone
Hook
Track
Makes
Rocket
Fuel
Whole
Riff
Anytime an artist puts your name in a song, it's unbelievable. It never gets old.
Dwyane Wade
Song
Old
Unbelievable
Never
Puts
Name
Gets
Artist
Anytime
Your
Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
Earl Sweatshirt
Song
Logical
Feeling
Whatever
Think
Name
Like
Sounds
Thing
I've heard 'Piano Man.' That song is pretty cool.
Earl Sweatshirt
Man
Song
Pretty
Piano
Heard
Cool
A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
Eartha Kitt
Attitude
Character
You
Song
Way
Takes
Toward
Look
Said
Go
Subject
Lot
Just
Movement
Different
Moves
Body
Each
I remember people telling me that at 5 1/2 minutes long, 'Lightning Crashes' would never be a hit song.
Ed Kowalczyk
Me
People
Song
Remember
Long
Telling
Would
Minutes
Never
Lightning
Hit
Crashes
One of the lyrics from Bono that always sticks with me is 'Where the Streets Have No Name.' Just the name of the song, that sort of oneness, and there isn't any division in yourself, and your just at peace and fired up at the same time.
Ed Kowalczyk
Time
Me
Peace
Yourself
Song
Bono
Lyrics
Oneness
Fired
Division
Name
Sort
Sticks
Always
Up
Same
Any
Just
Same Time
Where
Your
Streets
You look at a song like 'Lightning Crashes,' and it's just so universal.
Ed Kowalczyk
You
Song
Lightning
Like
Look
Just
Crashes
Universal
I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
Eddie Murphy
Song
Country
Think
Make
Because
Sound
Go
Impressionist
Authentic
Right
Ear
David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
Eddie Van Halen
Music
Home
You
Song
Feeling
Half
Stupid
Own
Else
Dancing
Way
Way Home
Van
Would
Van Halen
Someone
My Own
Rather
David
Had
Songs
Idea
Like
Halen
Doing
Were
Covered
Lee
Than
Successful
Roth
Bomb
Streets
Started
Playing
Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with? Probably the one that I haven't hung most with recently.
Eddie Van Halen
You
Song
Every
Kid
Hung
Kids
Favorite
Like
Most
How
Hang
Which
Many
Recently
If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.
Eddie Vedder
Time
Silence
You
Song
Long
Long Time
Sit
Down
About
Something
Blank
Hour
Empowering
Noon
Exist
Tape
Exists
Just
Might
Now
The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.
Eden Robinson
Great
Memories
Winter
Celebrate
Generation
Song
Dance
Long
Once
Bay
Gear
Totem
Feast
Point
Sacred
Named
Poles
Passed
Fishing
Lined
Stories
Place
Next
Village
Reserve
Season
There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.
Edward Hirsch
Music
Song
Word
Tribal
Other
Distinguished
One Word
Poetry
Remembers
Always
Still
Cultures
Just
Where
Literacy
Just One
Them
Many
Origins
When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't rely on the singing voice.
Edward Hirsch
Work
Song
Words
Singing
Carry
Voice
Rely
Poetry
Singing Voice
Rhythm
Themselves
Then
Separates
Every time I hear that Champions League song, it reminds me of hearing it for the first time in the old Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam.
Edwin van der Sar
Time
Me
Song
Old
First
Every
Every Time
Reminds
League
First Time
Hear
Hearing
Stadium
Champions
Champions League
Amsterdam
Olympic
I really don't believe in going too far out of your way to hunt down somebody to do a song.
El-P
Song
Somebody
Down
Believe
Too
Way
Hunt
Out
Going
Far
Really
Your
When writing songs, especially if they're kinda semi-true to you, a lot of people hide behind whatever their idea of themselves is in the record, and every now and then, you might make a song that exposes something a little too much about you, and there's a part that doesn't want yourself to be exposed.
El-P
You
Yourself
People
Song
Writing
Hide
Too Much
Whatever
Every
Too
Kinda
Record
About
Something
Songs
Part
Idea
Make
Lot
Behind
Want
Little
Might
Themselves
Then
Much
Exposed
Now
Now And Then
Most Americans have probably heard the song 'Santa Claus Is Coming to Town' about a billion times in the supermarket alone.
Elif Batuman
Alone
Song
About
Supermarket
Town
Most
Coming
Heard
Times
American
Santa
Santa Claus
Billion
I sometimes suffer from insomnia, and one of the first times it ever happened, I was like, 'I don't know what to do with myself,' so I started writing a song, and by morning, it was finished. It was about how I couldn't sleep... I was 14.
Eliot Sumner
Myself
Morning
Song
Writing
Sometimes
Finished
First
About
Insomnia
Like
Know
How
Times
Happened
Suffer
Ever
Started
Sleep
It's not a nice thing to have a song written about you.
Eliot Sumner
You
Song
Nice
About
Written
Nice Thing
Thing
I make my songs slightly abstract so that people can interpret them their own way. I think that's a lot more special, so you can hear a song and think, 'I feel exactly that way,' even if it wasn't written for that feeling.
Eliot Sumner
You
People
Song
Feeling
Own
Think
Way
Slightly
Exactly
More
Songs
Written
Abstract
Feel
Make
Hear
Lot
Them
Special
Even
Interpret
I've featured in some soundtracks in the past, and I would love to do more. I love great soundtracks to movies. Quentin Tarantino always picks amazing soundtracks, so I would like to do something for him or write a song for him.
Eliza Doolittle
Love
Great
Song
Amazing
Past
Would
Some
Something
More
Featured
Write
Picks
Like
Him
Always
Soundtracks
Quentin Tarantino
Tarantino
In The Past
Movies
I love that song 'I Could Have Danced All Night' from 'My Fair Lady' so much. I love that song because watching it as a kid, it was such an unbridled expression of joy.
Elizabeth Meriwether
Love
Song
Joy
Danced
Kid
All Night
Unbridled
Could
Fair
Because
Lady
Much
Expression
Watching
Night
I use writing as a counselling session - recently I've written a song for Paloma Faith, so after being a singer, I'm happy to keep writing for other people.
Ella Eyre
Faith
Happy
People
Song
Writing
Other
Written
Singer
Being
After
Use
Keep
Session
Recently
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