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Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.
Michael Bolton
Time
Song
Amazing
Considering
Transcend
Information
Bombarded
Amount
I'm an actor, so I think without a character to play, a story to tell, a song to sing... there's some suspicion that there's no 'there' there. Like, if I were to just strip down and present myself, I think I'd sort of just... disappear.
Michael C. Hall
Myself
Character
Song
Down
Think
Strip
Tell
Some
Disappear
Like
Sing
Sort
Without
Were
Just
Suspicion
Story
Actor
Play
Present
I always try to get back to the original source of the song. It's not always there in the sheet music, which is sometimes just a sketchy blueprint of what the song is about.
Michael Feinstein
Music
Song
Sometimes
Try
Back
About
Sheet
Always
Source
Get
Just
Blueprint
Which
Original
When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world.
Michael Franti
Angry
Song
World
Problems
Thought
First
Enough
Out
Pointed
Make
Started
It's a really personal thing for me to write a song.
Michael Franti
Me
Song
Write
Personal
Personal Thing
Really
Thing
The thing I ran up against was everybody wanted a song so fast. It took me two years to finish 'Touch Me in the Morning.'
Michael Masser
Morning
Me
Song
Everybody
Took
Ran
Touch
Finish
Years
Up
Wanted
Against
Fast
Thing
Two
When you write a song, you don't ask if it's good or not, or if it's gonna sell. When you write a song, you ask whether you've reached deep inside your heart and whether it's honest.
Michael Masser
Good
You
Heart
Song
Inside
Write
Reached
Sell
Whether
Gonna
Ask
Your
Deep
Deep Inside
Honest
One of my all-time favorite Christmas songs, I have to admit, was the Chipmunks' 'Christmas Song.' I remember playing that song over and over.
Michael McDonald
Christmas
Song
Remember
Favorite
Admit
All-Time
Songs
Over
Playing
I'm a very slow songwriter; it takes me sometimes years to write one song, if I ever finish.
Michael McDonald
Me
Song
Sometimes
Slow
Finish
Write
Songwriter
Takes
Years
Very
Ever
I've always had a dream that I might write a Christmas song that might resonate with people during the holidays.
Michael McDonald
Christmas
People
Song
Resonate
Dream
Write
Had
Always
Holidays
Might
There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled.
Michael Nesmith
People
Song
Own
Group
Seconds
Collection
Something
More
Only
Songs
Particular
Becomes
May
Want
Create
Much
Notion
I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop was evolving. I think there's an emotional quality to their music and there's a vulnerability to the music. For me, A Tribe Called Quest was my Beatles.
Michael Rapaport
Music
Me
Beatles
Quality
Culture
Song
Think
Tribe
Tribe Called Quest
Evolving
Promo
Brothers
Emotional
Exciting
New
Vulnerability
Around
Hip-Hop
Heard
Quest
Very
Jungle
When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side.'
Michael Rapaport
Song
Walk
First
Wild
Side
Kid
Favorite
Reed
I was in a karaoke video in 1991, for a song called 'Sukiyaki,' which is a very famous Japanese song, and I've actually heard from people that they've been in bars in Asia where they've seen me come up in the 'Sukiyaki' video that they play behind you. I'm in that. I'm in a karaoke video.
Michael Weatherly
Me
You
People
Song
Seen
Come
Been
Heard
Up
Very
Behind
Famous
Where
Which
Asia
Japanese
Video
Karaoke
Bars
Play
Actually
We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side.
Michel Patini
Best
Song
World
Side
Qualified
Without
Were
Very
Hitch
Experienced
Swan
Team
European
Champions
For me, my favorite Mariah Carey songs were never the singles, ever. My favorite Mariah song of all time is 'Sent From Up Above' from her first album, or 'Vanishing,' songs no one talks about.
Michelle Visage
Time
Me
Song
First
Favorite
Vanishing
All-Time
About
Above
Never
No-One
Songs
Talks
Singles
Were
Up
Sent
Ever
Her
Album
Mariah Carey
That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.
Mick Ralphs
Hope
Good
You
Song
Will
Thirty
Churning
Out
Significance
Find
About
Good Song
Write
Songs
Stick
Any
Just
Happen
Them
Might
Forty
Twenty
Keep
I didn't think of myself as a lead player, especially when we did live shows, because me and Keith used to switch around all the time. He'd take a lead, I'd play rhythm. Sometimes even within one song. It wasn't strict and regimented.
Mick Taylor
Time
Myself
Me
Song
Sometimes
Strict
Live
Think
Take
Lead
He
Because
Within
Around
Did
Rhythm
Used
Even
Shows
Live Shows
Switch
Play
Player
I tend to think that every new song I make is better than the last one.
Mija
Song
Better
Every
Think
Tend
New
Make
Than
Last
I think, 'How could anybody mock a good pop song?' It is timeless; it transcends barriers; it breaks down every single type of social barrier that you can possibly have. It can deal with the most difficult subjects, even if it abstracts the subject matter.
Mika
Good
You
Song
Matter
Single
Down
Difficult
Every
Think
Type
Possibly
Could
Most
Deal
How
Subject
Subject Matter
Subjects
Timeless
Mock
Anybody
Transcends
Breaks
Social
Pop
Pop Song
Barrier
Barriers
Even
No disrespect to people that don't use music theory or don't know it. It does help to be able to figure out what key a song is in, even though with your scales you can figure it out so you can set your Auto-Tune right. So many songs with Auto-Tune are off or have the wrong note playing on the 808. And they pass it off as being hood.
Mike Dean
Music
You
People
Song
Key
Disrespect
Hood
Though
Scales
Out
Able
Songs
Wrong
Know
Does
Pass
Off
Being
Note
Use
Your
Figure
Theory
Help
Many
Even
Right
Playing
Set
'Black Skinhead' almost got deaded because it was too much like a soccer song.
Mike Dean
Song
Too Much
Black
Too
Almost
Like
Because
Got
Soccer
Much
One of my favorite moments was when me and Jay-Z made a song 'For Rhyme or Reason.' It ended up on 'Reasonable Doubt,' but they switched the beat because we couldn't get clearance from my label.
Mike Dean
Me
Song
Made
Doubt
Favorite
Beat
Clearance
Because
Label
Up
Get
Ended
Rhyme
Jay-Z
Reason
Reasonable
Moments
Switched
We have been trying to play a lot of different kinds of music, and probably the next album will go back more towards the direction where you couldn't classify each song as a certain kind of music. This album you can.
Mike Gordon
Music
You
Song
Will
Different Kinds
Back
Kind
Kinds
Classify
Direction
More
Towards
Go
Been
Lot
Trying
Where
Different
Next
Certain
Each
Play
Album
There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as a Latin band. We could never expect to do that. We just keep doing what we do, what we know how to do. We sound like ourselves.
Mike Gordon
Song
Country
Band
Way
Latin
Ourselves
Could
Never
Never Expect
Like
Know
Well
How
Sound
Doing
Expect
Just
Keep
Play
Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I'd play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes.
Mike Gordon
Eyes
Song
First
Stage
Nothing
Pain
Down
Every
Bass
Other
Those
Would
Would-Be
Guys
Count
Tour
Off
Get
Roll
Just
Breaking
Note
Play
Rig
Last
Night
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