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In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn't just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time.
George Clooney
Time
Great
Rights
Culture
Women
Song
Everybody
Rights Movement
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
About
Songs
Protest
Were
Up
Antiwar
American
Just
American Culture
Movement
Dylan
Bob
Bob Dylan
Growing
Growing Up
Elements
I just write a song, and it just comes out however it wants to. And some of them are catchy songs like 'Here Comes The Sun,' and some of them aren't, you know.
George Harrison
You
Song
Sun
Out
Some
Write
Songs
Catchy
Like
Know
However
Just
Wants
Them
Here
There was no such thing as production at Starday. We'd go in with the band, we'd go over the song, I'd look over and tell the steel player to take a break or kick it off, and I'd get the fiddle to play a turnaround in the middle.
George Jones
Song
Band
Kick
Tell
Steel
Take
Over
Look
Go
Off
Get
Middle
Break
Fiddle
Turnaround
Production
Play
Thing
Player
I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.
George Michael
Confidence
Song
Political
Dinner
Before
Mouth
Spent
Tables
About
Never
Had
Over
Issues
Years
Off
Done
Anything
Really
Shouting
Views
Express
Serious
Serious Issues
I love the song 'El Rey.' And for years, I never knew what the song was totally about. It was something new for me. I'd never sung a song in Spanish before. Then I got the translation and saw what a really cool song it was.
George Strait
Love
Me
Song
Before
Translation
Saw
Sung
Totally
About
Something
Something New
Never
Knew
New
Got
Years
Spanish
Then
Really
Cool
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
Germaine Greer
Love
Song
Mother
Bird
Cage
Caged
Does
Sings
Nor
Child
Loves
Justify
Enforcement
Compelled
Her
I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.
Gerry Beckley
Best
You
Heart
Age
Song
Writing
Matter
Try
Will
Think
Adjust
Possibly
Write
Make
Make Up
Sound
Subject
Subject Matter
Up
Very
America
Same
Often
Us
Elements
Basic
Basic Elements
I got a song called 'All That I Got Is You.' I wrote that from the heart.
Ghostface Killah
You
Heart
Song
Wrote
Got
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Gil Penchina
Song
Words
Light
Community
Lyrics
Someone
New
Learn
Blinded
Verify
Heard
Lady
Lady Gaga
Wants
Gaga
Whether
Radio
I remember being at the premiere of 'Beverly Hills Cop II' and the tremendous reaction from the crowd outside, then going to a party at a hotel afterwards where the speakers were blasting 'Shakedown,' a song from the movie. That felt like a show biz moment to me.
Gilbert Gottfried
Me
Song
Remember
Party
Tremendous
Crowd
Outside
Blasting
Hotel
Beverly
Beverly Hills
Like
Hills
Reaction
Felt
Were
Going
Being
Where
Movie
Afterwards
Then
Speakers
Show
Premiere
Moment
Cop
'Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.
Gillian Jacobs
Sad
Me
Song
Made
Own
Dancing
Totally
My Own
Cry
Really
Actually
There are a lot of aspects of filmmaking that I love, but one of my favorites is in post, finding the right song for the right moment.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Love
Song
Post
Right Moment
Favorites
Finding
Lot
Aspects
Moment
Right
Filmmaking
In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.
Giorgio Moroder
You
Song
Slow
Make
Disco
Rock
Just
Rhythm
Really
Pop
Fast
I love Lady Gaga, Rihanna - all the pop girls like Katy Perry. I think Miley Cyrus is very talented, too. Apart from the visuals, which you may like or not like, but her music is quite good, actually. 'Wrecking Ball' is quite a good song, and she sang it really nicely.
Giorgio Moroder
Love
Music
Good
You
Song
Girl
Think
Too
Rihanna
Visuals
Good Song
Talented
Like
She
Ball
Perry
Very
Quite
May
Lady
Lady Gaga
Gaga
Which
Apart
Really
Pop
Sang
Katy Perry
Nicely
Her
Actually
I like the sounds of EDM; the guys create new sounds, beautiful sounds. The melodies, it's a little less. I like the kind of melodies I did with Donna Summer, or 'Flashdance,' where you have a verse, a chorus - a song setup.
Giorgio Moroder
Beautiful
You
Song
Setup
Summer
Melodies
Kind
Guys
New
Like
Sounds
Verse
Did
Where
Little
Create
Less
Chorus
Believe me when I say this: you can't please everyone in concert, even though I still want to. Someone always wants you to sing a song that isn't necessarily on your set list.
Gladys Knight
Me
You
Song
Please Everyone
Believe
Everyone
Please
Say
Though
Someone
Sing
Concert
Always
Still
List
Want
Wants
Your
Even
Necessarily
Set
Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one.
Glen Campbell
Time
Me
People
Song
Some People
First
Way
Tell
Able
Some
Potential
Feel
Also
First Time
Said
Hear
Been
Hit
Hits
Meaning
Played
You don't play around with a good song. You try to just say it right in the proper place, and if you get the music and voice in tune, you'll be all right. That's always worked for me.
Glen Campbell
Music
Good
Me
You
Song
Try
Say
Proper
Voice
Good Song
Around
Always
Get
Just
Tune
Place
Worked
Play
Right
I learned it was crucial to play right on the edge of the beat... It makes you drive the song more. You're ahead of the beat, but you're not.
Glen Campbell
You
Song
Drive
Edge
More
Beat
Crucial
Learned
Makes
Play
Right
A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.
Glen Hansard
Life
You
Song
Ride
Rest
Kind
Saddle
Like
Sing
While
Your
Right
Right Kind
There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.
Glen Hansard
People
Song
Sit
Down
About
Given
Write
Well
Subject
Any
Really
Who
Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.
Glen Hansard
Best
Song
Way
Pen
Out
Possible
Must
Best Way
Write
Come
Tighten
Hand
Up
Estimation
Much
Your
Keeping
So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.
Glenn Danzig
Me
Song
Writing
Mood
Classical
Piece
Because
Doing
Dictate
Than
Going
Just
Happen
Much
Harder
But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.
Glenn Danzig
You
Song
Words
Melody
Some
Vocal
Only
Write
Make
Redundant
Semblance
Get
Story
My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone's always going to compare it to the way the original artists did it, and they're just going to go, 'Oh I like the original better.'
Glenn Danzig
You
Song
Better
Everyone
Way
Exactly
Never
Idea
Like
Because
Always
Go
Cover
Covers
Did
Artist
Going
Oh
Just
Artists
Should
Original
Compare
If you're working with a producer like Rick Rubin or whatever, you sing each line probably 30 different ways. Each time, they're like, 'Can you try it this way? Can you try it that way?' That's each line in the song, for each song.
Glenn Danzig
Time
You
Song
Try
Whatever
Way
Ways
Like
Sing
Line
Different
Producer
Working
Rick
Each
Different Ways
Each Time
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