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I think in a lot of situations I had got songs stolen from me, or treated badly.
Bebe Rexha
Me
Think
Had
Songs
Badly
Got
Lot
Stolen
Situations
Treated
I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
Bebe Rexha
Myself
Writing
Thought
Never
Songs
Songwriter
Get
Artist
Just
Happened
Placed
There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.
Beck
Change
Released
Evolution
Never
Songs
Between
Nobody
Been
Heard
Done
In-Between
Sea
Sea Change
Whole
Albums
When I started out playing small clubs, you could feel the room recoil from certain kinds of songs. Anything that was too personal, that had a sentiment to it, or was laying out your feelings, was immediately booed. People would start throwing things. And anything that was really provocative or humorous or radical was embraced or cheered.
Beck
You
People
Feelings
Sentiment
Radical
Too
Humorous
Immediately
Out
Recoil
Would
Embraced
Kinds
Small
Laying
Could
Throwing
Had
Songs
Feel
Provocative
Personal
Anything
Clubs
Room
Really
Certain
Your
Things
Start
Started
Playing
My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom.
Bella Thorne
Music
You
Slow
Ocean
Sweet
Thinking
Dancing
Frank
Favorite
Prom
Dream
Would
Would-Be
Songs
He
Makes
Artist
Really
Play
For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.
Ben Gibbard
Time
Guitar
Long
Long Time
Sit
Honestly
Say
Record
Brought
More
Could
Inspired
Had
Songs
Majority
Felt
Narrow
Were
Than
Done
Just
Anything
Stairs
Room
Fun
Play
I love bummer songs.
Ben Gibbard
Love
Songs
Bummer
I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.
Ben Gibbard
Good
Think
Kind
About
Songs
Come
Like
Covered
Any
Preconceptions
Where
Pop
Should
Pop Songs
Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.
Ben Gibbard
Love
Few
Nothing
Incredibly
Back
Musical
Musically
Diminished
About
Something
Songs
Hall
Them
Then
Groups
Now
Satisfying
I decided a handful of years ago that I just want to write songs that you can understand as soon as you put the record on. There's no need to veil what's happening in the song the way I used to.
Ben Gibbard
You
Song
Way
Record
Write
Songs
Put
Veil
Soon
Understand
Years
Years Ago
Handful
Just
Want
Decided
Happening
Used
Need
When I listen to and play the songs from 'Narrow Stairs' now, that record feels like a record where we had established a style that arguably was more our own than it was in the beginning. Going into that record, I felt a lot more confident in my songwriting. It was a fairly prolific time for me.
Ben Gibbard
Time
Me
Style
Beginning
Own
Our
Prolific
Record
More
Arguably
Had
Songs
Songwriting
Feels
Like
Fairly
Felt
Narrow
Lot
Than
Going
Listen
Confident
Established
Where
In The Beginning
Stairs
Now
Play
I always try to write the best song I can in the moment, and those songs are often going to end up on Death Cab for Cutie records. I don't set out to write a solo song or write a band song. I just write, and where that songs ends up is kind of TBD.
Ben Gibbard
Death
Best
Song
Try
Band
Those
Out
Solo
Kind
Records
Cab
Write
Songs
Always
End
Up
Going
Often
Just
Ends
Where
Moment
Set
I don't feel that all the great songs have been written. I do feel that where we are now, certainly with rock & roll music, is that so much of it is variations on themes. But I think that it's one's particular creativity and individuality that comes out within that variation on a particular theme that makes a song great.
Ben Gibbard
Music
Great
Creativity
Song
Think
Out
Variation
Variations
Songs
Written
Individuality
Great Songs
Feel
Particular
Within
Makes
Rock
Been
Roll
Where
Theme
Themes
Much
Certainly
Now
I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good songs.
Ben Gibbard
Good
Writing
Songs
Written
Couple
Couple Years
Always
Years
Lot
Mean
Last
I think that the wonderful thing about music and about songs is that you can listen to a three-minute song whenever you feel you need it.
Ben Gibbard
Music
You
Song
Wonderful
Think
About
Songs
Feel
Wonderful Thing
Listen
Whenever
Thing
Need
The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
Ben Harper
Great
Advice
Live
Possible
Write
Songs
Great Songs
Crush
Over
New
Town
Get
Often
Artists
Them
Play
I'd say, at the end of the day, you know, from a songwriting practice standpoint, you write songs to make yourself feel something true and validating, and cathartic, maybe, and then whoever responds to it is, like, out of your control.
Ben Hopkins
Day
You
Yourself
End Of The Day
Practice
Control
Validating
Say
Responds
Out
Something
Write
Songs
Songwriting
True
Feel
Like
Know
Cathartic
Make
End
Maybe
Then
Your
Standpoint
Whoever
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
Ben Kingsley
Me
Stage
Ringo
John
London
John Lennon
Write
Songs
Liked
Sing
Heard
Lennon
Used
Bob Dylan - I will listen to any of his songs over and over.
Ben Miller
Will
Songs
Over
His
Any
Listen
Dylan
Bob
Bob Dylan
When I first started singing in Paris, I sounded horrible: I was just singing to get some money to eat. And I wasn't singing my own songs: it was Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix. Eventually, when I wrote my own music, my style just came out of my own place.
Benjamin Clementine
Music
Money
First
Singing
Style
Own
Jimi Hendrix
Marley
Out
Eat
Some
Horrible
My Own
Paris
Songs
Wrote
Came
Get
Just
Dylan
Place
Bob
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
Hendrix
Eventually
Started
I just wanted to eat, to survive. I started singing a cappella in bars. I saved up money to get my first guitar and started writing songs.
Benjamin Clementine
Writing
Money
Guitar
First
Singing
Saved
Eat
Songs
Up
Survive
Get
Just
Wanted
To Survive
Cappella
Bars
Started
I feel like, if you're writing the same songs you were writing when you were 17 in your 30s, something's wrong. As a grown man, you're more confident, and you have less to prove.
Benji Madden
You
Man
Writing
Something
More
Songs
Wrong
Feel
Like
Prove
Were
Same
Confident
Your
Less
Grown
Grown Man
Good Charlotte became more than a band and more than the songs: it became something that the fans owned.
Benji Madden
Good
Fans
Band
Charlotte
Something
More
Songs
Became
Than
Owned
Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
Benmont Tench
Engineer
Would
About
Recorded
Songs
Mike
Tom
Bring
I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.
Benmont Tench
Myself
Me
Experience
People
Feeling
Write
Songs
Like
Most
Particularly
Wrote
Well
Learned
Came
Were
While
Mean
Really
Nicholson
Away
Enjoyed
Gary
Need
I'm not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.
Benmont Tench
Best
Way
Songs
Like
Sing
Singer
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