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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sad
Thought
Laughter
Before
Pain
Our
Those
Tell
Fraught
Some
Songs
Saddest
Sincerest
Look
Pine
After
Sweetest
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
Reba McEntire
Sad
Music
Me
Hurt
Healing
Darkness
Light
Singing
Situation
Way
Out
Open
Songs
Sad Songs
Gets
Often
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Frank Zappa
Love
Music
You
Love Songs
Else
Something
More
Could
Songs
Make
Another
Than
Anything
Anything Else
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
Billy Sunday
Art
World
Mother
Nothing
Songs
Like
Sing
Mother's Day
Used
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
John Muir
Enthusiasm
Glorious
Few
Every
Tree
Trees
Waving
Worship
Though
Outer
Silent
Tossing
Minutes
Never
Songs
Excited
Roaring
Like
Bowing
Cease
Branches
Storm
Now
Ear
People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.
Bob Marley
Me
People
Words
Word
Leader
Could
Through
Songs
Message
Attracts
Messenger
Am
Passed
Person
Listen
Jah
Anybody
Want
I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
Eddie Vedder
Life
Attitude
Music
Art
Best
Day
You
Change
People
Think
Background
Some
Something
Purposes
Songs
Feel
Make
Greatest
Affect
Exists
Art Form
Person
Listen
Different
Form
Might
Different Reasons
Reasons
Serve
Things
We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.
Ruth St. Denis
Stars
Winds
Songs
Messages
Capacity
Receive
Night
I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
John Lennon
Life
Love
Soul
Peace
Understanding
Believe
Honestly
Claimed
Claiming
Out
Only
Purity
Never
Divinity
Songs
Put
Answer
Answers
Still
Questions
As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.
David Bowie
Myself
Being Myself
Disguise
Humiliation
Stage
Else
Nerve
Adolescent
Through
Songs
Nobody
Nobody Else
Sing
Withdrawn
Doing
Go
Going
Being
Decided
Them
Really
Painfully
Actually
Shy
I'm a Gemini and I have a lot of different moods. Sometimes I'm very serious and introspective and pensive, but other times I'm completely goofy and girlie. So, I like my songs to cover all my moods.
Jewel
Sometimes
Gemini
Other
Moods
Introspective
Songs
Like
Goofy
Cover
Lot
Very
Times
Different
Serious
Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.
Tom Waits
Time
Travel
Musicians
Recording
Gone
Everyone
About
Only
Bubble
Songs
Studio
Like
Period
Because
Years
Years Ago
Left
Time Travel
Maybe
Moved
The Only Thing
Form
Which
Really
Forward
Connected
Thing
I just like playing songs with happy vibes and good feelings.
Kygo
Good
Happy
Feelings
Vibes
Songs
Like
Just
Playing
And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
Peter Tosh
Love
Me
Church
Black
Sick
Say
Born
Shall
Shamed
Main
Songs
Sin
Sing
Makes
Inequity
Am
Than
Snow
Ask
Used
Wash
They Say
Why
History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.
Hugh Evans
History
People
Simple
Whatever
Action
Think
Complacency
Everyday
Our
Strikes
Montgomery
Scale
Wearing
Rely
Songs
Force
Protest
Boycott
Flags
Movements
Bus
Shows
Designed
Disrupt
Symbolic
Symbols
Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.
Wynton Marsalis
Music
Broken
Man
Struggle
Woman
Heart
Joy
Pain
Everything
Statements
Out
About
Having
Absolute
Songs
Most
Heart Broken
Affirmation
Blues
Social
Your
Elegance
Universal
It does feel really good when you play a new song, and it's the loudest singalong of the night. It means just as much when we're playing the old songs, and people are singing along to those, too.
Benji Madden
Good
You
People
Song
Old
Singing
Loudest
Old Songs
Too
Those
Songs
Feel
New
Along
Does
Just
Just As Much
Much
Really
Means
Play
Playing
Night
Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.
David Bowie
Spiritual
Me
Relationship
Anxiety
Worldview
Consistent
Tend
Songs
Like
Make
Sound
Been
Themes
Figures
Searching
'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil
Men
Russians
Songs
How
The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.
Bob Dylan
Believe
Songs
Today, I'd like to talk to Bob Marley. I'd just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don't know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from 'Redemption Song' to 'Is This Love?' and 'I Shot the Sheriff.'
Bruno Mars
Love
Today
People
Song
Genius
Simplicity
Marley
Songs
Songwriters
Powerful
Like
Know
Talk
Him
Redemption
Understand
Greatest
How
Sheriff
Method
His
Behind
Just
Them
Bob
Ask
Bob Marley
Shot
Ever
If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.
Elton John
Good
Great
You
Key
Will
Everything
Outlast
Emotion
Write
Songs
Great Songs
Because
Go
Artist
Meaning
Ever
Last
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
Hilaire Belloc
Best
Songs
Sing
Make
Trades
Them
Second
Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected folk songs, retained the melodic line, kept what words were usable and rewrote the rest. He didn't claim ownership.
Jimmy Reid
Today
Song
Genius
Words
Rest
Ownership
Rich
Enjoy
Enriched
Melodic
Claim
Collected
Responsible
Folk
Folk Songs
Songs
He
Mainly
Robert
House
Line
Were
His
Scottish
Burns
Usable
Treasure
Kept
I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
Kat Graham
Love
Moving On
Broken
Woman
Heart
Independent Woman
Love Songs
Independent
Broken Heart
About
More
Write
Songs
Up
Than
Getting
Being
Moving
Being In Love
Even
Desire
The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!
Layne Staley
You
Whatever
Down
Think
Thinking
About
Songs
Wrote
Were
Listen
Things
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