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I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make the songs relatable in a way; I want to keep melodies pretty simple and the lyrics open-ended so that people could maybe relate them to their own life in different ways. Something for everybody to have a piece of.
Mac DeMarco
Life
Music
Time
Myself
People
Simple
Own
Relate
Everybody
Lyrics
Way
Melodies
Ways
Pretty
Something
Could
Write
Songs
Open-Ended
Piece
Make
Trying
Same
Maybe
Same Time
Different
Want
Interested
Them
Keep
Different Ways
Songs are life in 80 words or less.
Neil Diamond
Life
Words
Songs
Less
My favorite songs are the ones that really come from the heart.
Nicole Scherzinger
Heart
Favorite
Songs
Come
Really
You can be up there, talked about, appreciated all over the world, with people singing a lot of songs about you. But if you don't measure up and you are not really connected with your people... it will explode in your face, no question about it.
Paul Kagame
You
People
World
Will
Face
Singing
About
No Question
Songs
Over
Talked
Question
Lot
Up
Explode
Really
Your
Measure
Connected
Appreciated
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
Tom Waits
You
Writing
Feathers
Sometimes
Nothing
Birds
Songs
Like
Without
End
Up
Them
Capturing
For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
Washed Out
Life
Time
Me
Writing
Thinking
Out
About
Emotional
Emotional Life
Songs
Without
Always
Lot
Happening
Personally
Even
A DJ can't just play one song. It's about playing a set, or how you connect songs in those two hours, and where you place them.
Zedd
You
Song
Those
About
Songs
Hours
How
Just
Where
Place
Them
Connect
Play
Playing
Two
Set
Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'
Quincy Jones
Few
Jazz
Rappers
Poetry
Through
Songs
Delta
Talk
Comedic
Genre
West
African
Realize
Trash
Dozens
Slave
I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
Amy Winehouse
Song
Better
Past
About
Write
Songs
Feel
Stuff
Get
Personally
Then
Really
Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away.
Andy Kaufman
Entertainment
People
Pure
Singing
Egotistical
Boring
Onstage
Songs
Attention
Performers
Like
Hours
Real
Walking
Lady
Hold
Whether
Them
Who
Keep
Away
Street
Two
I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.
Ashthon Jones
Love
Music
Stage
Stay
Write
Songs
Because
Continue
Want
I feel a connection to many songs that I won't sing because I don't think they are right for me! There is something in my gut that immediately responds. There's no science to it.
Audra McDonald
Me
Science
Think
Immediately
Responds
Gut
Something
Songs
Feel
Sing
Because
Many
Connection
Right
As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
Beck
Politics
Change
People
Resonate
People Change
Society
Changes
Seem
Songs
Still
Certain
I usually sing a lot on my mixtapes. I sing a lot on songs that just really aren't singles. Even my first single, 'My Last,' which I feel like is more pop than anything - I was originally singing the chorus on there. I'm used to that. I've always had fresh melodies.
Big Sean
First
Singing
Single
Melodies
More
Had
Songs
Feel
Like
Sing
Fresh
Always
Singles
Lot
Than
Just
Anything
Which
Really
Pop
Used
Even
Chorus
Originally
Last
Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Time
You
Change
Tough
Drop
Hat
Structure
Take
Songs
Come
Spontaneous
Because
How
Go
Up
Same
List
Going
Same Time
Lists
Requests
Next
Set
But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.
Billy Bragg
Love
You
Song
Girl
Wind
Country
Love Songs
Say
Some
Bland
Songs
Like
Contemporary
Sing
Still
Were
End
Up
North
Get
Politically
Whereas
Dylan
In The End
Bob
Even
Now
Play
You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.
Bob Dylan
Day
You
Wake Up
One Day
Write
Songs
Wake
Up
Just
Decide
Need
I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.
Bruce Springsteen
Home
Tomorrow
Write
Songs
Come
Became
Still
Electrician
Play
Night
When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.
Chester Bennington
Myself
Experience
Writing
Reflection
Fans
Face
Every
Thinking
Validity
Draw
Exact
Constantly
See
About
Only
Songs
Know
Because
Audience
Them
Why
I write the songs and hand it over to the world and see what happens. But the things that I've written for people that have been hits, I don't know that I would have directed them in the right path, but they definitely wound up on the right path.
Chris Stapleton
People
World
Path
Right Path
Definitely
Would
Wound
See
Directed
Write
Songs
Written
Over
Know
Been
Hand
Up
Hits
Happens
Them
Right
Things
I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.
Clint Black
Christmas
Song
Writing
About
More
Songs
Feel
Like
Still
Been
Traditions
Lot
Intend
Explained
Old-Time
Captured
Keep
I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you're writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that.
Curtis Jackson
Love
You
Creative
Writing
Emotions
Ups And Downs
Love Songs
Pain
Think
Unless
Some
General
Songs
Within
Ups
Either
Might
Then
Your
Capture
Downs
Actually
Start
Need
There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.
Dan Hawkins
Good
People
Seen
Somewhere
Single
Before
Late
Late-Night
Our
Once
Released
Out
Stead
Songs
Put
Years
Heard
Lot
Done
Pub
Us
Who
Radio
Even
Four
Night
Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.
Dan Hill
Time
Sometimes
Songs
Connected
Sociology
I love songs that tell stories. They make you feel something, something real.
Daphne Ashbrook
Love
You
Love Songs
Tell
Something
Songs
Feel
Make
Real
Stories
You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.
David Coverdale
Music
You
Relatives
Brothers
Songs
Know
Cousins
Sisters
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