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I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.
John Sebastian
Song
Style
Top
Way
Top Ten
Wildly
Television
Out
Record
Record Company
Ten
Onto
Pushed
Make
Trying
Happen
Theme
Theme Song
Certainly
Company
Suddenly
I worry a lot about what people think. I worry people think I'm not helping them enough, that they don't like my music, that I'm playing a song too fast or talking too fast. I worry my wife isn't happy with our relationship... I'm afraid somebody's going to take my career away from me. That it's going to go away, or I'm going to get fired.
John Tesh
Music
Me
Relationship
Happy
People
Song
Wife
Somebody
Go Away
Think
Too
Enough
Our
Worry
About
Fired
Take
Like
Talking
Go
Lot
Get
Going
Afraid
Them
Helping
Away
Fast
Playing
Career
Being in music forever, I have good pitch, so I know when I'm singing in or out of tune. But the key to really good singing is just relaxing and thinking about what the song is.
John Tesh
Music
Good
Song
Key
Singing
Thinking
Relaxing
Out
About
Know
Forever
Pitch
Just
Being
Tune
Really
Putting out compilation records, buying the right to music is incredibly complicated. You have to find the writer of the song and the publisher of the song - not the singer - and make two separate deals.
John Waters
Music
You
Song
Complicated
Incredibly
Out
Find
Records
Writer
Putting
Singer
Make
Deals
Separate
Publisher
Right
Buying
Two
Compilation
A song called Never. Which we never play. But it's a great song.
John Wozniak
Great
Song
Never
Great Song
Which
Play
When I was 16 or 17, anyone could have had me if they sang the right song and recruited me in the right way. Which is why I've always had a sneaking understanding for people who took the wrong route. That doesn't mean to say I took it or even contemplated it myself.
John le Carre
Myself
Me
People
Song
Understanding
Took
Way
Right Way
Say
Could
Had
Wrong
Contemplated
Always
Sneaking
Anyone
Which
Mean
Sang
Who
Even
Why
Route
Right
When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!
Johnny Cash
Myself
Song
Somebody
Own
Else
Say
Record
My Own
He
Feel
Know
Wrote
Make
Right
There were numerous times where, at the end of a week of working on a song, there was a part of it that we still weren't feeling, so we'd scrap the whole thing and start from scratch the next week.
Johnny Christ
Song
Feeling
Numerous
Numerous Times
Week
Part
Still
Were
End
Times
Scrap
Scratch
Where
Next
Working
Whole
Thing
Start
We were about ready to go out on the road with Maiden, and Kerrang asked us to do an Iron Maiden tribute song. While we were home, we recorded that. And that was it.
Johnny Christ
Home
Song
Out
Tribute
About
Recorded
Maiden
Road
Ready
Go
Were
Iron
Iron Maiden
While
Us
Asked
We have a song, 'Welcome to the Family' - we realized for the first time in our lives that people go through this every day around the world. There is someone very close to them that they're losing, every day. That song is, 'We know how you're feeling.'
Johnny Christ
Time
Day
Family
You
Welcome
Every Day
People
Song
World
Losing
First
Feeling
Every
Our
Our Lives
Someone
Through
Know
Around
First Time
How
Go
Very
Close
Them
Realized
Lives
Every riff had to be perfect and heavy, collectively what we wanted it to be. If there was one person in the room who went, 'Heh, I don't think it is there yet, guys,' we'd scrap the whole song. I think that took a little bit of songwriting maturity for us.
Johnny Christ
Song
Maturity
Every
Think
Took
Bit
Collectively
Guys
Perfect
Had
Songwriting
Person
Scrap
Heavy
Wanted
Little
Little Bit
Room
Us
Who
Whole
Riff
A day-time song like 'Word Starts Attack,' I want to make your heart blow up and make you want to punch the air with your fist. It can't be ponderous.
Johnny Marr
You
Heart
Song
Word
Starts
Punch
Air
Attack
Like
Make
Fist
Up
Blow
Want
Your
If people can't relate to something, there's no use of the song being there.
Johnny Van Zant
People
Song
Relate
Something
Being
Use
Being There
I think people relate to Skynyrd; it's a working class band. They're just songs with messages. To this day, there's never been a song written that didn't have a message.
Johnny Van Zant
Day
Class
People
Song
Band
Think
Relate
Never
Songs
Written
Message
Messages
Been
Just
Working
Working-Class
Not every song of Lynyrd Skynyrd's was a single, but songs like 'Tuesday's Gone' and 'The Ballad of Curtis Loew' and 'Made in the Shade,' 'I Need You,' people learned those songs from the radio because radio played albums, not just singles.
Johnny Van Zant
You
People
Song
Made
Single
Gone
Every
Those
Shade
Songs
Like
Learned
Because
Ballad
Singles
Tuesday
Just
Radio
Played
Albums
Need
We have a song called 'Skynyrd Nation.' It's just about what our fans are, what they do in getting ready for the show.
Johnny Van Zant
Song
Fans
Nation
Our
About
Ready
Getting
Just
Show
I think people should be able to have at their behest, like, four hours of music, entertainment, visual knowledge, different pathways. That's what I'm trying to do with modern technology, not just another song and another song.
Jon Anderson
Music
Knowledge
Technology
Entertainment
People
Song
Think
Visual
Able
Like
Hours
Another
Trying
Modern
Just
Different
Modern Technology
Should
Four
When the Beatles wrote 'Paperback Writer,' it couldn't have been the same old thing. You can hear so many influences in it, from the blues to Bach, and it's not just verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge chorus. They start off singing a cappella, almost like a Bach chorale, and the song goes into this bluesy guitar riff.
Jon Batiste
You
Beatles
Song
Guitar
Old
Singing
Bach
Paperback
Writer
Almost
Like
Wrote
Hear
Been
Verse
Off
Same
Goes
Just
Blues
Bluesy
Influences
Old Thing
Cappella
Many
Bridge
Chorus
Riff
Thing
Start
I always want to approach records from where it feels very graspable. You know what the song's about, but it's presented to you in a way that's like, 'I never heard something like this before,' but it doesn't push you away.
Jon Bellion
You
Song
Before
Approach
Way
About
Something
Records
Push
Never
Feels
Like
Know
Always
Heard
Very
Where
Want
Away
Presented
I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.
Jon Crosby
Me
Song
Feeling
Longing
Think
Once
About
Never
Had
Still
Close
Die
Anybody
Again
Really
You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life.
Jon Crosby
Life
Death
You
People
Song
Somebody
Longing
Singing
Lose
About
Emotion
Disappeared
Know
Without
Real
Just
Dying
Moving
Them
Your
Traveling
Actually
You have an hour and a half or two hours - maybe two and a half hours - in a movie, and it has to be a self-contained three-act structure. It's like a rock and roll song. Certain things have to happen for it to be a toe-tapper and get people excited, leaving the theater.
Jon Favreau
You
People
Song
Half
Structure
Excited
Self-Contained
Hour
Like
Hour And A Half
Hours
Half Hours
Rock
Rock And Roll
Leaving
Get
Roll
Maybe
Movie
Happen
Theater
Certain
Certain Things
Things
Two
Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own special charm.
Jon Landau
Song
Own
Ringo
Charm
Voice
Beatle
Had
He
May
Much
Sang
Special
Album
The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul.
Jon Landau
Soul
Song
Style
Young
Lyric
Bizarre
Classics
David
Bowie
His
Mixture
Handful
Comment
American
Young Americans
Title
Social
Pop
English
'Dirt on My Boots' was pegged as the second single from 'California Sunrise' from the get-go, and we felt like it was just a fun song to go with.
Jon Pardi
Song
Sunrise
Single
Boots
Dirt
Like
California
Felt
Go
Just
Fun
Second
Sing your heart out and write the best song you possible can.
Jon Pardi
Best
You
Heart
Song
Out
Possible
Write
Sing
Your
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