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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
Madison Smartt Bell
Me
You
Song
Mosquito
Nothing
Bite
More
Through
Soothing
Mesh
Than
Get
Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.
Mary J. Blige
Music
Strength
Me
You
People
Song
Power
Down
Live
Give
Know
Renewed
Makes
How
Caught
How Many Times
Been
Times
Times People
Die
Just
Want
Wanted
Depressed
Them
Then
Us
Special
Helped
Many
Ear
Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.
Neil Diamond
Musicians
Song
Training
Musical
Has-Been
Restricted
Never
Call
Because
Limited
Been
Might
Technical
New York is the place where they bind books and write blurbs and arrange the publicity and print the galleys... But Chicago is the place where the book is lived out before it is bound and the song is sung before it is recorded.
Nelson Algren
Book
Song
Before
Books
Out
Sung
Recorded
Write
Bound
New
Print
Arrange
Chicago
York
New York
Where
Place
Bind
Lived
Publicity
There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.
Nick Cave
You
Song
Somewhere
Nothing
Universe
Else
Something
Somewhere Else
Absolutely
Dividing
Absolutely Nothing
Songwriting
Between
Like
Within
Line
Where
Happens
Explain
Then
Origin
Element
Suddenly
I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.
Paul McCartney
Noise
Song
Had
Like
Did
Just
Which
Cuz
Ridiculous
Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time.
Paul Muldoon
Time
Good
Song
Listening
Good Time
Ways
Having
Developed
Over
Sophisticated
Because
Were
Years
Item
Very
Average
Really
Pop
Your
Pop Song
Viewing
Film
'Cover Me.' 'Take Time To Know Her.' 'Warm and Tender Love.' 'Out Of Left Field.' 'Dark End Of The Street.' 'Tears Me Up.' 'My Special Prayer.' All points back to one song. 'When A Man Loves A Woman.' The Grand-daddy to all of my songs. The boss of all of my songs. I have great respect for that song. Always will.
Percy Sledge
Love
Time
Great
Me
Prayer
Man
Respect
Woman
Song
Dark
Tears
Will
Field
Back
Out
Boss
Tender
Take
Points
Great Respect
Songs
Know
Always
Cover
Left
Left Field
End
Up
Loves
Warm
Special
Street
Her
I guess I've never been introduced properly to Pink Floyd. I know they're great, don't get me wrong. Excellent, excellent musicians; great band; awesome harmony; great song writers; I just don't know anything besides, I guess, the popular songs on the radio.
Phil Anselmo
Great
Me
Musicians
Song
Band
Awesome
Guess
Harmony
Introduced
Besides
Properly
Excellent
Writers
Never
Songs
Wrong
Great Song
Know
Been
Pink
Pink Floyd
Get
Just
Anything
Radio
Popular
Floyd
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
Pope John Paul II
Music
Song
Sweet
Tooth
Sin
Polish
Sweet Tooth
I sang the 'Sunday Night Football' theme song two years in a row - my first part in American culture, although I still don't know anything about American football.
Priyanka Chopra
Culture
Song
Sunday
First
Sunday Night
About
Football
Part
Know
Although
Still
Years
American
American Culture
Anything
American Football
Theme
Theme Song
Sang
Row
Night
Two
I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
Rachel Platten
Love
Song
Bit
Range
Daring
Some
About
More
Inspiring
Supportive
Am
Being
Little
Little Bit
Being In Love
Really
Show
Who
Fun
I'm open to any kind of situation in a song as long as it touches my heart.
Reba McEntire
Heart
Song
Long
Situation
Kind
Open
Any
I'm a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song.
Robbie Williams
Song
Light
Entertainer
Born
Open
Fridge
Goes
Door
Burst
You don't really know a song until you play it live.
Robert Smith
You
Song
Live
Know
Until
Really
Play
Each time I play a song it seems more real.
Robert Smith
Time
Song
Seems
More
Real
Each
Each Time
Play
This is very unprofessional, but at 'The Toxic Avenger,' Demond Green, Matt Saldivar and I had a contest to see who could say the word 'ochre' the most times during the show. Well, I had a song called 'Choose Me Oprah,' so I just said ochre instead of Oprah the whole time.
Sara Chase
Time
Me
Song
Word
Say
See
Could
Had
Instead
Most
Toxic
Well
Contest
Said
Oprah
Matt
Very
Times
Green
Just
Show
Choose
Who
Whole
When you're making music or playing a song, I find the moments when there are no instruments being played even stronger than when they are being played. Because they add tension. It's also an ego-less thing - a place where you have no ego - when you're with a bunch of musicians who stop and listen instead.
Sarah McLachlan
Music
You
Musicians
Song
Ego
Stronger
Add
Find
Instead
Tension
Also
Instruments
Because
Making
Bunch
Than
Listen
Stop
Being
Where
Place
Who
Moments
Even
Thing
Played
Playing
Sometimes when the song is right for that time period, it's just kinda bad to let it wait, and then when you do release it eight months down the road, it's not the same.
Shawn Mendes
Time
You
Song
Sometimes
Wait
Down
Months
Release
Bad
Kinda
Road
Period
Time Period
Same
Just
Eight
Then
Down The Road
Right
When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.
Sherman Alexie
You
Song
First
Out
Construct
Come
Mix
Tape
Every time one can write a self-deluded song, you are way ahead of the game, way ahead. Self-delusion is the basis of nearly all the great scenes in all the great plays, from 'Oedipus' to 'Hamlet.'
Stephen Sondheim
Time
Great
You
Game
Song
Every
Every Time
Way
Scenes
Write
Self-Delusion
Hamlet
Nearly
Basis
Plays
It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of the left hemisphere can leave people with no articulate speech other than the ability to swear, spout cliches and song lyrics.
Steven Pinker
People
Song
Words
Other
Lyrics
Strokes
Ability
Taboo
Entire
Removal
Likely
Massive
Cliches
Leave
Surgical
Brain
Left
Than
Articulate
Stored
Swear
Hemisphere
Right
Speech
'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that's probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that's what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.
The Weeknd
Life
Work
Song
My Life
Long
Before
Setting
Once
Spent
Released
City
Trilogy
Entire
Entire Life
More
Claustrophobic
Never
Had
Feel
Like
Pieces
Track
Because
Felt
Been
Years
Left
Plane
Body
Why
Album
'Southern Accents,' I think that's one of my best, really. That would have been 1984, and I wrote that on the piano in the studio at home. I had a studio, and I just happened to be down there in the middle of the night. It was quite late, probably early morning, and I just started to play, and a song just started to appear.
Tom Petty
Best
Home
Morning
Song
Down
Think
Late
Would
Piano
Had
Studio
Wrote
Accents
Been
Southern
Quite
Just
Middle
Happened
Really
Appear
Play
Early
Started
Night
Early Morning
Singing intimately is almost like thinking into a microphone, so it helps to have the song buried inside you.
Tony Bennett
You
Song
Singing
Thinking
Inside
Almost
Like
Microphone
Buried
Helps
Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.
Young Thug
Song
Long
Think
Drake
Wayne
Minutes
Perfect
Takes
Because
Understand
Want
Them
Why
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