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Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.
Neil Diamond
Life
Great
Morning
Me
Song
Perspective
Guess
Lyrics
Slightly
Joni Mitchell
Partial
Because
Chelsea
Mitchell
Different
Different Perspective
Show
Her
The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.
Neil Diamond
Saying
Me
Song
Finished
Reflect
Way
Objective
Touch
Write
Take
Main
Songs
Feel
Along
Involve
Always
Been
Any
Moves
But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.
Neil Innes
Song
Old
Markets
Silly
Records
Had
Look
Go
Titles
Flea
Flea Markets
Used
Things
When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she asked me what I was doing, I got shy. I was writing a Christmas song, and I had never shared my music with anyone before. Reluctantly, I sang it for her... and she loved it. Of course she did - she's my mum.
Neil Jackson
Christmas
Music
Myself
Me
Song
Writing
Before
Humming
Paper
Reluctantly
Never
Had
Shared
She
Course
Got
Doing
Did
Scrap
Eight
Anyone
Loved
Scribbling
Asked
Sang
Found
Mum
Her
Shy
I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes.
Neil Peart
You
Together
Song
Made
Lyrics
Minutes
Guy
Thrown
Written
Along
Like
Obviously
Were
Up
Five
Just
People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.
Neil Peart
People
Song
Words
Down
Way
Sung
Limitations
Get
Realize
The first song is called 'London.' It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime.
Neil Tennant
Life
Army
Song
Crime
First
Soldiers
London
About
Russian
Indulge
Escape
Where
Who
Desert
Two
I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.
Neil Young
Song
Sing
Arrange
Go
Mix
Than
Different
Clubs
Playing
I don't think you can cover a song unless you love it and have a relationship with it. With 'Golden Heart' I felt a sense of responsibility. And when we were recording it in the studio, it felt almost dream-like. Something you might hear if you were in Senegal, with someone singing from the mosque in the morning just as the sun's coming up.
Neneh Cherry
Love
Morning
Relationship
You
Heart
Song
Responsibility
Recording
Singing
Sense
Think
Unless
Sun
Someone
Something
Studio
Almost
Mosque
Felt
Coming
Cover
Were
Hear
Up
Just
Golden
Might
To me, a song is a song when you can sit in a room and just sing it from end to end.
Neneh Cherry
Me
You
Song
Sit
Sing
End
Just
Room
It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song.
Nick Cannon
Music
Art
Conversation
People
Song
Think
About
Having
Songs
Supposed
Parties
Make
Wanted
Form
Spark
Really
Use
Fun
I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.
Nick Cave
You
Change
Song
Few
Added
Way
Those
Kind
Find
Some
Pretty
More
Write
Takes
Over
Piece
Particularly
Couple
Revealing
Lines
Lot
Very
Get
Gets
Often
Then
Much
Really
Eventually
Things
With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on.
Nick Cave
Song
Writing
Fall
Back
Bottom
Feel
Like
Ideas
Felt
Always
Scraping
Barrel
Ever
Right
Start
I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they're alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.
Nick Cave
Eyes
Song
World
Band
Sit
Back
Ears
Mine
Way
Members
Through
Stuff
Know
Because
Hearing
Band Members
Done
Different
Experiencing
Different Way
Interpret
Playing
The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song. What do I write about? I never know.
Nick Cave
Me
Song
Writing
Problem
Big
About
Anguish
Write
Never
Songwriting
New
Know
Exists
Big Problem
Where
Thing
Starting
American Idols that come off the show and don't have a hit song - that makes it tough. If you come off the show and the song isn't big, and it takes a couple months to get your single out there - that time could be damaging.
Nick Fradiani
Time
You
Song
Tough
Single
Big
Months
Out
Could
Takes
Come
Couple
Makes
Idols
Off
Hit
Get
American
Your
Show
Damaging
Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.
Nick Hornby
Song
World
Sometimes
Own
Sense
Tried
Someone
Through
Make
Mitchell
Painfully
Who
Her
I think my favorite song from another artist would have to be 'Superstition' by Stevie Wonder.
Nick Jonas
Song
Think
Favorite
Would
Superstition
Stevie
Stevie Wonder
Another
Wonder
Artist
There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music.
Nick Lachey
Music
Song
Reflection
Wild
Evident
Hopefully
About
Write
Talk
Couple
Been
Years
Lot
Goes
Whenever
Whirlwind
Last
You've got to really know your song, inside and out.
Nick Lowe
You
Song
Out
Inside
Know
Got
Really
Your
To me, music's something I can dance to or listen to. To write about it is always more of what the music represents, or what it reflects. Like an ideal song, to me, is a song that you can dance to, that summons up some darker and greater mystery.
Nick Tosches
Music
Me
You
Song
Dance
Darker
Some
About
Something
More
Mystery
Write
Ideal
Like
Greater
Always
Up
Reflects
Listen
Represents
I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.
Nicki Minaj
Character
Song
Opportunity
Rap
Characters
Head
Look
Auditioning
Different
Different Characters
Act
Full
Each
I never know if a song's going to be popular so I don't select them with that in mind. All I can do is follow my heart and my gut and go for songs that make me feel great.
Nicole Scherzinger
Great
Me
Heart
Song
Mind
Follow
Gut
Select
Never
Songs
Feel
Know
Make
Go
Going
Them
Popular
I remember, when I was a kid, listening to the radio and hearing 'Big Bad John' by Jimmy Dean - and it just blew me away. I used to sit there and call the radio stations and request that song. And then the Beatles were obviously out already, but I really didn't know about the Beatles.
Nikki Sixx
Me
Beatles
Song
Remember
Listening
Big
Sit
Jimmy
Kid
Stations
Out
Bad
John
About
Remember When
Know
Blew
Obviously
Call
Dean
Were
Hearing
Just
Request
Then
Really
Used
Radio
Radio Stations
Away
I remember Iggy and the Stooges' song 'Search and Destroy' reaching out from my speakers to me like my own personal anthem.
Nikki Sixx
Me
Song
Remember
Own
Destroy
Out
My Own
Like
Reaching
Anthem
Personal
Stooges
Iggy
Speakers
Search
I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.
Nikki Sixx
Music
Song
Writing
Passion
Believe
Addicted
Lyrics
Outcome
Concept
Get
Behind
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