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The only way to have longevity is to have good songs.
Brett Young
Good
Way
Only
Songs
Longevity
I like mash-ups, taking contemporary songs and making them old... old songs, making them new.
Bria Skonberg
Old
Old Songs
Songs
Taking
New
Like
Contemporary
Making
Them
When you write a lot of songs, sometimes you don't have a place for them, and you need an outlet for them.
Brian Fallon
You
Sometimes
Outlet
Write
Songs
Lot
Place
Them
Need
I think it would be cool to maybe do something with Ed Sheeran. That would be awesome and interesting. He writes amazing songs, and I could easily hear Backstreet Boys sing 'Shape Of You.'
Brian Littrell
You
Amazing
Awesome
Think
Backstreet
Easily
Would
Would-Be
Something
Could
Shape
Writes
Songs
He
Sing
Ed Sheeran
Boy
Hear
Maybe
Interesting
Cool
Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.
Brian May
Dreams
Queen
Ambition
About
Tend
Songs
Very
Personal
Personal Ambitions
Personal Things
Things
I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect.
Brian McKnight
Will
Feeling
Singing
Mistakes
Spend
Minutes
About
Vocal
More
Perfect
Never
Songs
Head
Until
Always
Sound
Than
Get
Microphone
Behind
Being
Mechanical
Keep
You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.
Brian McKnight
Good
You
Hurt
People
Ugly
First
Musical
Say
Kid
Released
Bad
Would
Record
Had
Songs
Knew
Like
Hear
Reviews
Sell
Listen
Children
Want
Anytime
Your
Who
I went back and listened to the first three albums I made and tried to figure out what was special about them, why people keep going back to them. I think it was because I didn't know what I was doing. I had no idea if they were going to play it on the radio or anything. All I did was write songs, so that's what I got back to.
Brian McKnight
People
Made
Three
First
Think
Back
Out
Tried
No Idea
About
Write
Had
Songs
Idea
Know
Because
Got
Doing
Were
Did
Going
Listened
Anything
Them
Figure
Special
Radio
Keep
Keep Going
Why
Play
Albums
When the label came to me to say, 'would you like to do another record,' I said, 'Well I got these sixteen songs sitting here, so let's do it.' And that was pretty much it... I never stopped writing, it's just the way that the business is now; you just try to find a different model.
Brian McKnight
Me
You
Business
Writing
Try
Way
Say
Would
Find
Record
Pretty
Never
Songs
Like
Well
Another
Said
Got
Came
Label
Model
Sitting
Just
Sixteen
Stopped
Different
Much
Now
Here
I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.
Brian McKnight
Music
Jazz
Every
Type
Kinds
Something
Songs
Learned
Making
Hip-Hop
Listen
Whether
Pop
I really don't like the way most movies and TV shows are supervised - I hate when there's someone singing over dialogue, songs just thrown in there.
Brian Reitzell
Hate
Singing
Way
TV
TV Shows
Someone
Thrown
Songs
Over
Like
Most
Dialogue
Just
Movies
Really
Shows
I studied arranging and orchestration a number of years ago, so I have a home studio and arrange about three-fourths of my songs on the computer. Since writing orchestration is tedious, I often put an arrangement on the keyboard and let someone better-qualified finish it.
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Home
Writing
Keyboard
About
Someone
Finish
Computer
Songs
Studied
Studio
Put
Since
Arrange
Arrangement
Arranging
Years
Years Ago
Often
Orchestration
Number
Tedious
I love rethinking and reimagining songs.
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Love
Songs
I like to sing the songs people love, like 'Impossible Dream.'
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Love
People
Impossible
Dream
Songs
Like
Sing
Probably not much of a song left in me, you know, if any, because I've written so many, some 250 songs or 300 or whatever it is.
Brian Wilson
Me
You
Song
Whatever
Some
Songs
Written
Know
Because
Left
Any
Much
Many
You know, Rolling Stones songs all sound kind of the same.
Brian Wilson
You
Kind
Songs
Know
Sound
Same
Rolling
Stones
Rolling Stones
I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?
Brian Wilson
You
Compose
Write
Had
Songs
Know
Scores
Movies
Film
In my off-time, I do record. Once in a while, I'll just go into the studio if there's a really good song that I have in my head and want to do. I think, as artists, you're constantly in creative motion. If I stopped writing songs, then that's a part of me that would stop in my life, and I need constant motion.
Britney Spears
Life
Good
Me
You
Creative
Song
Writing
My Life
Think
Once
Would
Constant
Constantly
Record
Good Song
Songs
Part
Studio
Head
Motion
Go
Just
Stop
Artists
Stopped
Want
While
Then
Really
Need
Usually I write the songs at home and then I bring them in to the band; when we play them as a band, that's kinda how we figure out the feel of how they're going to be presented on the record or live.
Britt Daniel
Home
Band
Live
Out
Kinda
Record
Write
Songs
Feel
How
Going
Them
Then
Figure
Play
Bring
Presented
There are so many songs out there in the world that - if I know we have to come up with a new cover, then I'll just sit in my room and sing song after song and figure out which one I can kind of sing the best.
Britt Daniel
Best
Song
World
Sit
Out
Kind
Songs
New
Come
Know
Sing
Cover
Up
Just
After
Which
Room
Then
Figure
Many
One of my favorite things about Tom Waits is not only his songs, but when he does do live shows, it's the theatrics involved. It's like Kabuki theater, really old-fashioned theatrics. Like, standing on top of a piece of plywood lying on some cinderblocks and clapping his hands, banging on a bucket.
Brittany Howard
Live
Lying
Top
Favorite
Favorite Things
Some
About
Only
Songs
Bucket
He
Like
Piece
Involved
Does
His
Waits
Hands
Banging
Theater
Really
Standing
Old-Fashioned
Shows
Live Shows
Tom
Tom Waits
Things
A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.
Brittany Howard
Learning
Song
Those
About
Something
Relive
More
Write
Songs
Over
Like
Got
How
Heartbreak
Than
Necessarily
There's not a whole lot to do in Athens. When I was 13, I just started entertaining myself by writing songs. I'd sit in my room for 10 hours playing the same song, stacking vocals, trying out different drum beats, realizing no one would ever hear this but having so much fun. I guess I got my voice from just doing that so often.
Brittany Howard
Myself
Song
Writing
Sit
Guess
Out
Would
Entertaining
Athens
Vocals
Having
Voice
No-One
Songs
Beats
Drum
Hours
Got
Doing
Hear
Lot
Trying
Same
Often
Just
So Much Fun
Different
Room
Much
Realizing
Fun
Whole
Ever
Started
Playing
The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.
Brittany Howard
Time
Writing
Guitar
First
Out
Songs
Know
Learned
First Time
How
Just
Tune
Play
Started
'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.
Bruce Springsteen
Work
Happy
Darkness
Edge
Out
Had
Songs
Town
Came
Huge
Very
Body
Tons
I think there's only eight songs on 'Born to Run' - I don't think it's much more than 35 minutes long. But as you move into it, where every song comes up in the sequence makes a lot of sense - though we weren't thinking about it; we were going on instinct at the time.
Bruce Springsteen
Time
You
Song
Long
Sense
Every
Think
Thinking
Though
Run
Born
Minutes
About
More
Only
Songs
Instinct
Makes
Were
Lot
Up
Than
Going
Move
Eight
Where
Much
Sequence
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