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When we finished 'Stop Making Sense,' we went right to the San Francisco Film Festival for the world premiere, and people swarmed the stage and started dancing before the first song was even finished.
Jonathan Demme
People
Song
World
Finished
First
Before
Stage
Sense
Dancing
Francisco
Making
Festival
Stop
San
San Francisco
Premiere
Even
Film
Film Festival
Right
Started
In the first year in New York, I went to this amazing teacher named Jen Waldman. She does lots of different classes, but one of her classes was where you went and worked on a song. And suddenly I felt like an artist again, and because I had worked the whole song, when I went into the audition room, I could connect to something in the 16 bars.
Jonathan Groff
Teacher
You
Song
Amazing
First
Year
Classes
Something
Could
Had
New
Named
Like
She
Because
Felt
Does
Audition
Lots
York
Artist
New York
Where
Different
Again
Room
Worked
Connect
Whole
Bars
Suddenly
Her
The way 'Coming Home' uses music in general is incredible, but the final song that really kind of crescendos all of the emotion that the whole movie has kind of been building to is this song called 'Once I Was' by Tim Buckley.
Jonathan Levine
Music
Home
Song
Building
Incredible
Final
Once
Way
Kind
General
Emotion
Tim
Coming
Coming Home
Been
Movie
Really
Uses
Whole
Any time I hear certain songs I put in a movie, I have to not listen to them anymore because I associate them with that movie. They take on that association rather than the association I had when I first heard them. So it's kinda bittersweet to put a song in a movie, honestly.
Jonathan Levine
Time
Song
First
Honestly
Bittersweet
Kinda
Rather
Take
Had
Songs
Put
Because
Hear
Heard
Than
Any
Listen
Anymore
Movie
Them
Certain
Associate
Association
Anyone who's ever read the lyrics of an already cherished song has most likely encountered that hollow sensation of something missing, the absence of certain emotional integers. It can be like viewing a loved one's X-rays.
Jonathan Miles
Song
Lyrics
Something
Absence
Emotional
Missing
Like
Most
Likely
Read
Cherished
Encountered
Sensation
Anyone
Loved
Hollow
Certain
Viewing
Ever
I vividly remember D'Angelo's 'How Does it Feel?' as a song I listened to around the time I came out.
Jonathan Van Ness
Time
Song
Remember
Out
Vividly
Feel
Around
Does
How
Came
Listened
I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is.
Joni Mitchell
Women
Song
Thought
Along
Know
Always
Get
Why
Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?
Jonny Greenwood
Music
You
Song
Impossible
Add
Worse
Along
Like
Know
Without
How
Making
Exit
Play
Actually
Presented
I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.
Jordin Sparks
Music
Song
First
Become
Older
Bit
Poetry
Could
Written
Put
Since
First Grade
Until
Grade
Little
Little Bit
Realized
I'm not good at talking, but I can write a good song and tell a story.
Jorja Smith
Good
Song
Tell
Good Song
Write
Talking
Story
I make music because it helps me. I feel better after I've written a song. I listen to my own songs, and they make me feel and think about stuff I'd done or someone said to me, and I feel a bit better.
Jorja Smith
Music
Me
Song
Better
Own
Think
Bit
About
Someone
My Own
Songs
Written
Feel
Stuff
Make
Because
Said
Done
Listen
After
Helps
I'm not going to do a song just because it's with Drake.
Jorja Smith
Song
Drake
Because
Going
Just
Just Because
When I found 'New Chain' by Col3trane, honestly, I couldn't stop playing it. It's a good road trip song because the beat just drives on.
Jorja Smith
Good
Song
Honestly
Trip
Beat
Drives
Road
New
Because
Just
Stop
Chain
Found
Playing
The first song I wrote was when I was 11. It was called 'Life Is a Path Worth Taking.'
Jorja Smith
Life
Song
Worth
Path
Life Is A
First
Taking
Wrote
Whenever I'm talking about relationships, it's always at least three things. It's my relationship with myself, my relationship with God or an idea, and then usually somebody, a real person. I try to operate on all three levels at the same time, and it's difficult, but I never want to have a break-up song or something like that.
Jose James
God
Time
Myself
Relationship
Song
Try
Three
Somebody
Difficult
Relationships
About
Something
Never
Idea
Like
Operate
Talking
Always
Least
Real
Person
Real Person
Same
Same Time
Whenever
Want
Then
Things
Levels
After talking to people and meeting them every day, I realize that a song can be written from one perspective with an objective in mind. What is crazy about it is that many different people can take one song a totally different way. That is so cool, since music is a universal thing and a very personal thing.
Josh Dun
Music
Day
Crazy
Every Day
People
Song
Perspective
Mind
Every
Meeting
Way
Totally
About
Objective
Take
Written
Since
Talking
Very
Personal
Different
After
Personal Thing
Them
Realize
Different People
Cool
Many
Different Way
Thing
Universal
As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.
Josh Groban
You
Song
Better
Hair
Tell
Outside
New
New Artist
Make
Always
How
Trying
Artist
Influences
Your
Radio
I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.
Josh Segarra
Love
Me
Song
Telling
Through
Take
Story
Place
Helps
Deeper
I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.
Josh Tillman
Myself
Good
Song
Try
Good Job
Job
Thought
Drunk
Too
Possible
One Thing
Uncomfortable
Make
Audience
Very
Subsequently
Getting
Whether
Really
Thing
My guiding principle when writing with other people is that it's not worth it to give someone a song unless it hurts for me to give them that song.
Josh Tillman
Me
People
Song
Writing
Worth
Hurts
Not Worth It
Other
Unless
Guiding
Worth It
Someone
Give
Principle
Them
'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.
Josh Turner
Song
Write
Perform
Fun
I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the same thing all the time.
Josh Young
Time
You
Song
Sometimes
Same Thing
Doing
Lines
Verses
Same
Just
Forgotten
Hard
Switch
Thing
I love being in the gym and am training six days a week; I do a lot of high-intensity interval training so that my heart rate gets really high, and I practice, as I'm doing that, taking really deep breaths, and that really helps in a song and in a style of music where you have to sing long, flowing lines.
Joshua Henry
Love
Music
You
Heart
Song
Training
Long
Practice
Style
Interval
High
Rate
Gym
Week
Taking
Days
Sing
Am
Doing
Lines
Lot
Heart Rate
Gets
Six
Six Days
Being
Where
Really
Deep
Helps
Flowing
The way a musical can make us feel is unlike anything else, in song and particularly in dance. I think people fly through plate-glass windows when they get shot because movies don't have dance scenes any more. This is what we do instead.
Joss Whedon
People
Song
Dance
Fly
Think
Else
Unlike
Musical
Way
Windows
More
Scenes
Through
Instead
Feel
Particularly
Make
Because
Get
Any
Anything
Anything Else
Movies
Us
Shot
I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.
Judy Collins
Dreams
Morning
Song
Will
Down
Apt
Dream
Able
More
Tend
Write
Songs
Prose
Come
Also
Up
Get
Which
Them
Then
Interpret
If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself, Now, every day for 90 days you have to write a song; good, bad or indifferent. So that was really helpful.
Judy Collins
Myself
Good
Day
You
Every Day
Song
Writing
Every
Bad
Give
Indifferent
Shameless
Write
Songs
Instance
Days
Said
Really
Helpful
Chore
Now
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