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If I hear a conversation and somebody says something intriguing, my first thought is, 'Is that a song?' I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say which of these things do I want to record.
Toby Keith
Conversation
Song
Thought
Somebody
Long
First
Year
Say
Says
Out
Intriguing
All Year
Record
Something
Write
Hear
End
Want
Which
Fifty
Forty
Things
Pull
There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude to 'The Hangover,' I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song.
Todd Phillips
Attitude
Song
Think
Hated
Glenn
Clearly
Hangover
Movie
Even
Start
'Something/Anything?' was kind of a different record, since I'm playing everything myself. A lot of the songs on there have a particular kind of instrumentation that is much like a guitar quartet, and in some ways, it's an exceptional song on that record because so much of the writing on 'Something/Anything?' is piano-oriented.
Todd Rundgren
Myself
Song
Writing
Guitar
Everything
Ways
Kind
Record
Some
Exceptional
Songs
Since
Particular
Like
Particular Kind
Instrumentation
Because
Quartet
Lot
Different
Much
Playing
One Long Year was just a song here and there, and it was meant to reflect the mood that I was in but unfortunately it also reflected too little of any particular thing rather than hanging together as a whole album.
Todd Rundgren
Together
Song
Long
Year
Reflect
Too
Mood
Rather
Particular
Also
Reflected
Than
Any
Hanging
Just
Unfortunately
Little
Meant
Whole
Thing
Here
Album
The show is called 'Todrick,' and the show follows my life and the friends that I've gathered over the past few years making YouTube videos. Every week, we're taking a brand new concept - a brand new original song, brand new hair, makeup, choreography, and making a video come to life on our shoestring budget.
Todrick Hall
Life
Song
Videos
My Life
Hair
Past
Few
YouTube
Every
Our
Follows
Week
Taking
Over
Budget
New
Come
Concept
Makeup
Making
Years
Past Few Years
Friends
Brand
Brand New
Video
Show
Original
Choreography
Gathered
I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.
Tom Araya
You
Song
Listening
Every
Everything
Had
Name
Least
Heard
Radio
Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.
Tom Chapin
Beatles
Song
Simon
Alley
Songwriters
Wrote
Terrific
American
Tin
Form
Dylan
Paul
Paul Simon
Bob
Bob Dylan
Then
Sang
Whoever
Pan
Appreciated
For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.
Tom Glazer
Waiting
People
Song
Inspire
Symphony
Hundreds
Say
Hundreds Of Years
Would
Some
About
Having
Inspiration
Write
Come
Talked
Masterpiece
Without
Years
Up
Commission
Often
Artists
Them
Persons
Us
Muse
Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.
Tom Glazer
Morning
Age
Memory
Song
Thought
Out
Having
Songs
Head
Obsessed
Over
Since
Came
Been
Years
Childhood
Just
Them
Large
Suddenly
Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest.
Tom Glazer
Time
Song
Technically
First
Some
Write
Had
Songs
Retired
Wrote
Him
Occasionally
Been
Years
Friend
Friends
Just
Turned
Who
Now
Ever
Hardest
I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.
Tom Lehrer
Song
Problem
Out
Would
About
Tempted
Write
Sort
George
George Bush
His
George W
George W. Bush
Want
Them
Bush
Figure
The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.
Tom Odell
You
Song
Progress
Better
First
Had
Like
Wrote
Lines
Get
Ever
Four
I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play this and get the song over, I don't take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar.
Tom Petty
Good
You
Song
Guitar
Band
Sit
Down
Rule
Kind
Good Song
Tend
Write
Piano
Take
Deliver
Over
Most
Because
Get
Any
Acoustic
Acoustic Guitar
Play
The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.
Tom Petty
Time
Me
Together
Natural
Song
Writing
Guitar
First
Bad
Tried
Write
Put
First Time
Got
Came
After
Electric
Electric Guitar
Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the same with a live performance. If the material is strong, you're already 90% there. I always tell young people it's all about the music, the songs. Work on the songs, work on the songs, work on the songs.
Tom Petty
Work
Music
You
People
Song
Strong
Young
Live
Think
Tell
Record
About
Songs
Performance
Always
Got
Making
Material
Same
Young People
Then
Create
Live Performance
When I was 15 or 16 playing in groups, we used to sit in the car and try to write the lyrics down as a song was playing, and we'd assign each person a verse, you know: 'I'm going to do the first one. You go for the second one.' And then sometimes you'd wait an hour for it to come on again so you could finish it up.
Tom Petty
You
Song
Sometimes
Wait
Try
Car
First
Sit
Down
Lyrics
Finish
Could
Write
Come
Hour
Know
First One
Go
Verse
Up
Person
Going
Again
Then
Used
Groups
Each
Assign
Second
Playing
There's nothing like that feeling of having just written a song that you know is 'the song,' and you know it's really great, and you can't wait to share it with people; you can't wait to record it.
Tom Petty
Great
You
People
Song
Wait
Feeling
Nothing
Record
Having
Share
Written
Like
Know
Just
Really
When I write a song and come up with an arrangement and a vocal part, it's always a challenge trying to find a singer who can interpret it sort of the way that I hear it, and it's a very difficult thing to do. I mean, singing is like playing an instrument - everybody does it a little bit different - singing maybe even more so.
Tom Scholz
Song
Challenge
Singing
Difficult
Everybody
Way
Bit
Find
Vocal
More
Write
Part
Come
Like
Singer
Instrument
Sort
Does
Always
Arrangement
Hear
Up
Very
Trying
Maybe
Different
Little
Mean
Little Bit
Who
Even
Thing
Interpret
Playing
Difficult Thing
I'm never too ambitious when I go into the studio. I always know that I'm just going into the studio to work on or try to develop an idea that I have for a song.
Tom Scholz
Work
Song
Try
Too
Never
Develop
Studio
Idea
Know
Always
Go
Ambitious
Going
Just
I heard 'More Than A Feeling' for the first time when somebody came running into my office in the engineering department and said, 'Your song's on the radio in the drafting department!'
Tom Scholz
Time
Song
Somebody
First
Feeling
Engineering
Running
More
First Time
Said
Came
Heard
Than
Office
Department
Your
Radio
Drafting
I can tell you that I can always recognize a Boston song, even if it's in a noisy place. I can hear that it's Boston even before I know what song it is. If a Boston song comes on in a club or somewhere, I notice that it's Boston, and the second thing I notice is what song it is.
Tom Scholz
You
Song
Somewhere
Before
Club
Recognize
Tell
Boston
Noisy
Know
Always
Hear
Place
Notice
Even
Thing
Second
The problem is that once I start on a song and get a rough idea of where I might go with an arrangement, I try dozens, sometimes hundreds, of different things on a song. The bass, the backing guitars, the lead guitars, the keyboards. It's a long process. It's like 100 steps forward and 99 steps back.
Tom Scholz
Song
Problem
Sometimes
Try
Long
Bass
Keyboards
Back
Once
Hundreds
Backing
Guitars
Long Process
Lead
Idea
Steps
Like
Arrangement
Go
Get
Where
Different
Process
Might
Forward
Rough
Different Things
Dozens
Things
Start
It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.
Tom T. Hall
Buy
You
Song
Car
Country
Recorded
Could
Major
Hit
Artist
Used
Now
I don't know if any genuine, meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.
Tom Waits
Change
Song
Result
Kind
Could
Throwing
Like
Know
Gorilla
Genuine
Any
Meaningful
Ever
Peanuts
Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.
Tom Waits
Song
Sometimes
Impossible
Way
Sung
Magnetism
Demands
Certain
Ignore
Certain Way
As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.
Tom Wopat
Song
Gone
Way
Ability
More
Voice
Along
Like
Know
Felt
Makes
Accessible
Discovering
Aspect
Interpret
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