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I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and you're not really thinking about making a point one way or another about it. You're just coming up with a little scenario and seeing it through, and that's it.
Adam Schlesinger
You
Song
Writing
Think
Thinking
Way
Seeing
One-Way
About
Cases
Scenario
Point
Through
Most
Another
Making
Coming
Making Up
Up
Just
Story
Little
Really
A song sometimes ends up with its own internal logic.
Adam Schlesinger
Song
Sometimes
Own
Logic
Up
Ends
Internal
If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to write a song about a ski resort.
Adam Schlesinger
You
Song
Think
Resort
Martha
About
Write
Like
Sitting
Going
Place
Ski
Vineyard
What should a song be about? It's a trick question for songwriters because lots of amazing songs aren't 'about' anything. Or, at least, they're not about anything that's obvious or logical.
Adam Schlesinger
Song
Logical
Amazing
Trick
About
Songs
Songwriters
Obvious
Because
Least
Question
Lots
Anything
Should
I'm just like anybody else: I have stuff to do in the day, whether that's writing a song or recording a song. I try to treat everything I do as just work.
Adam Schlesinger
Work
Day
Song
Writing
Treat
Try
Recording
Else
Everything
Stuff
Like
Just
Anybody
Anybody Else
Whether
I worked at Johnny Rockets. For one day. I had to quit because they said that anytime a particular song comes on the jukebox, all the servers have to stop and do this special sing-along and dance, and I just knew that I wouldn't be returning.
Adam Scott
Day
Song
Dance
One Day
Johnny
Had
Knew
Particular
Returning
Because
Said
Rockets
Quit
Just
Stop
Anytime
Worked
Special
The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, 'Oh my God, this song is totally about me.'
Adele
God
Me
Song
Writing
Win
Believe
Way
Kind
Totally
About
Write
Songs
Over
Like
Because
Always
End
Up
Personal
Oh
Artists
Oh My God
Being
Straight
Convince
Why
Away
Thing
I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like giving away your heart.
Adele
You
Heart
Song
Giving
Else
Able
Someone
Write
Like
Sing
Because
Get
Personal
Your
Away
It's an enthralling experience to be in front of the mic and record a song.
Aditi Rao Hydari
Experience
Song
Record
Mic
Front
A song's lyrics can't be held culprit for the overall change in society.
Adnan Sami
Change
Song
Society
Lyrics
Overall
Culprit
Held
Music does not have colour or religion. If I listen to a song, I don't care about the colour, religion, or country of the singer. It doesn't matter, even if it is in another language, because I love the music.
Adnan Sami
Love
Music
Religion
Song
Matter
Language
Care
Country
About
Colour
Singer
Another
Because
Does
dont Care
Listen
Even
Recording a Hindi song takes me around 40 minutes whereas a Kannada song takes me about two hours. The music isn't a problem, since the notes used are universal. The language is the problem. I try my best to get it right, as I'm sensitive about respecting every language, since all of them are sacred in my heart.
Adnan Sami
Music
Best
Me
Heart
Song
Problem
Try
Language
Recording
Every
Respecting
Minutes
About
Sacred
Takes
Since
Hours
Hindi
Around
Get
Whereas
Sensitive
Them
Notes
Used
Right
Universal
Two
For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.
Adrian Belew
Song
Example
Live
Gave
Appropriate
Similar
Developing
For Example
Talk
Wrote
Sound
After
Place
Which
Elephant
I love the song 'Picasso Baby,' and I think the performance art piece was brilliant. I love that fact that Jay Z is continuing to raise the bar on hip hop.
Adrian Younge
Love
Art
Song
Brilliant
Think
Baby
Hop
Fact
Picasso
Performance
Performance Art
Piece
Hip
Hip-Hop
Continuing
Bar
Jay
Jay-Z
Raise
If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.'
Afrojack
Day
You
Every Day
Song
Every
Please
Say
Station
Go
Hand
Want
Really
Your
Radio
Radio Station
Play
When you're walking down the street or in the car just listening to the radio, and you're, like, 'Oh, that's my song.' You want to say, 'Hey Mom!' That never changes.
Afrojack
Mom
You
Song
Listening
Car
Down
Changes
Hey
Say
Never
Like
Walking
Oh
Just
Want
Radio
Street
With 'Philharmonics,' I had to do a lot of interviews, and it was like I was corrupting something. In many ways, I've said everything in the song. And either I can't go back to what it was because it's changing when I play it, or I still haven't figured out what the song is about.
Agnes Obel
Song
Changing
Back
Interviews
Everything
Ways
Out
About
Something
Had
Like
Because
Said
Still
Go
Lot
Either
Figured
Many
Play
It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.
Agnes Obel
Needs
Song
Difficult
Worry
About
Direction
More
Tendency
Piano
Know
Always
Go
Than
When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.
Agnetha Faltskog
Song
Nothing
Else
Record
About
Bubble
Head
Feels
Like
Sound
Trying
Just
Then
Really
Right
Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.
Ai Weiwei
Song
World
Style
Danced
Hundreds
Carried
Online
Over
Spoof
Still
Quickly
Reports
Banned
Story
Chinese
Video
Across
International
Multiple
Platforms
Traveled
Media
Recently
In karaoke, you don't choose the song; the song chooses you.
Aisling Bea
You
Song
Karaoke
Choose
Chooses
It took me 29 years to finish that song. That's a typical Jardine move.
Al Jardine
Me
Song
Took
Typical
Finish
Years
Move
I'm not sure it's a better music world of appreciation and performance. I think the listener is a different guy, and listening is something he does in passing, with other stuff going on. There's less care and understanding of the relationship between the song and the listener.
Al Jarreau
Music
Relationship
Appreciation
Song
World
Better
Listening
Care
Understanding
Think
Other
Music World
Something
Guy
He
Performance
Between
Stuff
Sure
Does
Passing
Going
Listener
Different
Less
Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska.
Al Michaels
Fight
Song
Better
Looking
Living
Top
Entire
Week
Tennessee
Miss
Looking Forward
California
Hearing
Rocky
End
Southern
Than
Southern California
December
Forward
Actually
Nebraska
Here
By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
Al Yankovic
Time
Song
Recording
YouTube
Parody
Studio
By The Time
A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.
Alan Ball
You
Song
Will
Alive
Somehow
Scene
Put
Lot
Times
Just
Flat
Little
Choice
Right
Save
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