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I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.
Paul McCartney
Good
Me
Song
Think
Musicality
Tell
Bad
Would
Something
Good Song
Could
Had
New
Always
Hearing
Appreciate
If my life were a song, what would it be? 'A Never Ending Road of Musical Good Times'.
Paul McDonald
Life
Good
Song
Ending
My Life
Musical
Would
Good Times
Never
Road
Never-Ending
Were
Times
With Free, we had phased out all of the blues material and wanted to phase in all original material, and the only song that stayed from our blues past was 'The Hunter' by Albert King. People just loved that. And I said, 'We have to write a song that will top that - otherwise, what are we doing here?' That was the birth of 'All Right Now.'
Paul Rodgers
People
Song
Will
King
Free
Past
Birth
Otherwise
Our
Top
Out
Hunter
Stayed
Only
Write
Had
Said
Material
Doing
Just
Blues
Wanted
Loved
Original
Now
Right
Phase
Albert
Phased
Here
A song isn't finished until it's played live, and then it moves on.
Paul Rodgers
Song
Finished
Live
Until
Moves
Then
Played
'Shooting Star' started out as the arrangement on the record, and it's developed into a real audience-participation song, just from playing it.
Paul Rodgers
Song
Out
Record
Developed
Arrangement
Real
Shooting
Just
Star
Started
Playing
I got the idea for the song 'Bad Company' when I saw a poster for the Jeff Bridges movie, and it reminded of an old Victorian picture that I'd once seen, and it said, 'Beware of bad company.' So I sat down at the piano and started to write the song.
Paul Rodgers
Song
Old
Seen
Picture
Down
Once
Saw
Bad
Poster
Write
Piano
Reminded
Idea
Beware
Said
Got
Movie
Victorian
Jeff
Sat
Company
Bridges
Started
Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.
Paul Simon
Time
You
Song
Words
Every
Pleasure
Melody
Out
One Time
Only
Write
Wiped
Ecstasy
Sing
Get
Same
Happen
After
If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.
Paul Tillich
Song
Would
Sing
Were
Stirring
Trained
Measures
Tongue
In all honesty, I don't know what one song can change.
Paul Weller
Change
Honesty
Song
Know
I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.
Paul Weller
Angry
People
Song
Singing
Big
To Be Honest
Melodies
Rap
Like
Get
Just
Shouting
Honest
You have to keep challenging yourself. I've always tried to do that, and I'm not saying I've always been successful. Maybe I've rewritten the same song; it's inevitable, but I've always been mindful of taking the writing somewhere else. You can't stick in your little comfort zone.
Paul Weller
Saying
You
Yourself
Song
Writing
Somewhere
Inevitable
Else
Mindful
Tried
Somewhere Else
Taking
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Stick
Always
Been
Same
Maybe
Rewritten
Little
Successful
Your
Keep
Challenging
Zone
Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.
Paul Westerberg
You
Experience
Song
Sit
Down
Too
About
Only
Write
Pick
Feet
Halfway
Although
Am
Least
Been
Up
Depressed
Away
I do like performing 'I'll Take Your Man,' because that was a hard song.
Pepa
Man
Song
Take
Performing
Like
Because
Your
Hard
We'll be in our 60s performing 'Push It' somewhere. Good old 'Push It.' I don't know what it is about that song.
Pepa
Good
Song
Old
Somewhere
Our
About
Push
Performing
Know
I remember when I was about 15 and still listened to Pet Shop Boys and Chas And Dave, some lad at school lent me a Blur tape, and it had on it a song called 'Bank Holiday.' I said, 'What's this? I liked that tape, but that one song is a bit fast'. He said, 'Yeah, it's punk. It depends what mood you're in.' And then something sort of clicked in me.
Pete Doherty
Me
You
Song
Remember
School
Pet
Punk
Bit
Mood
Some
About
Something
Dave
Had
He
Remember When
Liked
Sort
Clicked
Boy
Said
Still
Yeah
Tape
Shop
Listened
Bank
Lad
Depends
Blur
Holiday
Then
Lent
Fast
'You Talk' was originally a copy of a certain Velvet Underground song.
Pete Doherty
You
Song
Velvet
Talk
Underground
Certain
Originally
Copy
'Time to Move On' is my favorite song.
Pete Holmes
Time
Song
Move On
Favorite
Move
I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.
Pete Seeger
Good
You
People
Song
Think
Laugh
Good Song
Reminding
Cry
Makes
Editorial
Rhyme
Keep
I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many serious songs, I'll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up.
Pete Seeger
Song
Try
Singing
Different Kinds
Too
Batch
Humorous
Kinds
Throw
Songs
Sing
Deadly
Mix
Up
Different
Many
Serious
Ridiculous
A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I write a song, what I usually do is work the lyric out first from some basic idea that I had, and then I get an acoustic guitar and I sit by the tape recorder and I try to bang it out as it comes.
Pete Townshend
Work
Home
Song
Writing
Guitar
Try
First
Sit
Lyric
Airplane
Out
Some
Recorder
Write
Tour
Had
Idea
Obviously
Tape
Tape Recorder
Lot
Get
Bang
Acoustic
Acoustic Guitar
Then
Basic
In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All There Is?' I want to believe there's something else going on, but what that something else is I don't pretend to know.
Peter Ackroyd
Song
Old
Believe
Else
Peggy
Peggy Lee
Pretend
Something
Something Else
Suppose
Like
Know
Lee
Any
Going
Want
Far
Beliefs
I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.
Peter Gabriel
You
Song
Writing
Think
Once
Bit
Out
One Of The Things
About
Vocals
More
Attempts
Studio
Taken
Road
Like
Learn
Matured
Quite
Often
Whereas
Things
Early
Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.
Peter R. Grant
Song
Strictly
Thus
Along
Females
Lines
Mating
Paternal
The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted.
Peter R. Grant
Song
Rare
Independent
Between
Revealed
Mate
Role
Where
Choice
Usual
Disrupted
Association
To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.
Peter R. Grant
Life
Learning
Song
Summarize
Signals
Responses
Determined
Genetically
Particular
Females
Sings
Male
Fixed
Behavioral
Manner
Inherited
Early
The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced by repeated immigration and subsequent breeding: song flow.
Peter R. Grant
Song
Immigration
Those
Would
Divergence
Only
Songs
New
Balanced
Were
Repeated
Subsequent
Processes
Breeding
Population
Away
Flow
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