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All roads lead to 'American Pie.' 'As American as apple pie' was the saying. It was some kind of a big American song that I wanted to write, which would be a conclusion for my show and bring all the songs home, which it still does. I can go anywhere I want with American music and come home to that. And it all makes sense.
Don McLean
Music
Saying
Home
Song
Big
Sense
Kind
Would
Would-Be
Some
Write
Lead
Songs
Roads
Come
Pie
Makes
Does
Conclusion
Still
Go
American
Want
Wanted
Which
Anywhere
American Music
American Pie
Show
Apple
Apple Pie
Bring
I still take a lot of pride in being able to write my own songs. My story's coming from me.
Dua Lipa
Me
Pride
Own
Able
My Own
Write
Take
Songs
Still
Coming
Lot
Being
Story
I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
Elvis Presley
Lost
Musical
Direction
Songs
Mass
Like
Mass Production
Most
Sure
Were
Same
Just
Movies
Hollywood
Production
Belt
There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.
Feist
Change
Mind
Singing
Subconscious
Changed
Later
Kind
Vantage
Vantage Point
Something
Point
Songs
Stuff
Wrote
Because
Line
Hear
Been
Years
Times
Did
Where
Different
Little
Meaning
Certain
Planted
Moment
Sudden
Chameleon
Four
Lizard
There's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.'
Fetty Wap
Great
Queen
Songs
Great Songs
Another
Lot
Going
Gonna
Trap
During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression.
Florence Welch
Best
You
Yourself
Way
Best Way
Songs
Performance
Without
Essentially
Transcend
Pause
Moment
Expression
You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
Francoise Sagan
Love
Death
You
Celebrate
Laughter
Wine
Dancing
Songs
New
Affair
Lot
New Orleans
End
Love Affair
Should
Orleans
I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
Freddie Mercury
Music
Hype
Own
Too
Our
Press
Supermarket
Write
Never
Songs
Us
Used
Keen
Suggest
British
There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that I have written some of my best songs. For me, singing and writing is very therapeutic. It's much more effective than taking Prozac!
Gerry Rafferty
Life
Depression
Best
Me
Writing
Darkest
My Life
Singing
Has-Been
Some
More
Through
Songs
Written
Taking
Periods
Been
Effective
Very
Than
Prozac
Where
Experienced
Much
Therapeutic
Moments
As a busker, one thing that does not work is self-consciousness. A busker needs to be working. A busker needs to shed all ego and get down to work. Play your songs, play them well, earn your money, and don't get in people's way.
Glen Hansard
Work
Needs
People
Ego
Money
Down
Earn
Way
One Thing
Songs
Self-Consciousness
Well
Shed
Does
Get
Them
Working
Your
Play
Thing
There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.
Gregg Allman
Ways
Write
Songs
Many
Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.
Hal David
Today
Learning
Own
Gone
Everyone
Through
Write
Songs
Performers
Course
How
Graceful
Wants
Regimen
Pop
Used
Pop Songs
The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.
Henry Rollins
Music
Memories
Insanity
Degree
Back
Unbearable
Entire
Vividly
Pursuit
Songs
Almost
Crushing
Ecstatic
Tied
Listen
Romantic
Again
Victories
Them
Enhanced
Bring
Defeats
Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.
James Weldon Johnson
Heart
Experience
Emotions
Old
Human Heart
Old Songs
Spell
Musical
Religious
Thrilling
Never
Songs
Missed
Most
Sing
Heard
Fervor
Person
Any
May
Human
Which
Congregation
Who
Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.
James Young
Smile
Good
Feel Good
People
Writing
Wonderful
Band
Stage
About
Records
Onto
Songs
Touring
Taking
Feel
Also
Rock
Making
Rock Band
Being
Themselves
I think I have a hard time expressing myself in my relationships. I use songs to tell people how I'm feeling. If I can't say 'I love you,' I'll write a song about it and hope that the person figures it out.
Jenny Lewis
Love
Hope
Time
Myself
You
People
Song
Feeling
Think
Relationships
Say
Out
Tell
About
Write
Songs
How
Person
Love You
Use
Hard
Figures
Hard Time
Expressing
I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.
Joan Jett
Music
Good
Better
Face
Three
Band
Nothing
Think
Minute
Seeing
Songs
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Up
Than
Roll
Straight
Sweaty
Your
The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.
Jonathan Davis
Death
Me
Relate
Kids
Out
Bore
Something
Songs
Stuff
Most
Cheesy
Real
Just
Want
Pop
Pop Songs
You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
Joni Mitchell
Life
Religion
Spiritual
You
Ignorance
Law
Aggressive
Slice
Kind
Mental
Mental Illness
Foot
Songs
Particular
Mounting
Any
Just
Rabbit
Little
Rabid
Really
Illness
I have a whole lot of songs.
Juicy J
Songs
Lot
Whole
My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life.
Justin Hayward
Life
Heart
People
My Life
Seen
All My Life
Kind
About
Only
Songs
Knew
Diary
Form
Loved
Places
Moment
Lived
Biography
My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.
Justin Timberlake
Challenge
Songs
Make
Sure
Am
Were
Did
Biggest
Biggest Challenge
Who
Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.
Kate Christensen
Dimensions
Superheroes
Emotional
Take
Songs
Powerful
Like
Powers
Influence
Nostalgia
Ordinary
There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.
Layne Staley
Few
Months
Recorded
Songs
Message
Huge
Any
Human
Being
Being Human
Deep
I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us: you don't write the songs anyhow. So if you're lucky, you can keep the vehicle healthy and responsive over the years. If you're lucky, your own intentions have very little to do with this.
Leonard Cohen
You
Healthy
Own
Think
Responsive
More
Write
Songs
Vehicle
Over
Knows
Years
Very
Than
Intentions
Anyhow
Dylan
Little
Bob
Bob Dylan
Us
Your
Lucky
Keep
You hear a lot of rap songs about spending money. I thought, wouldn't it be funny to make a song about saving money because it's ironic, but beyond irony, I genuinely have pride in saving money.
Lil Dicky
Funny
You
Song
Money
Pride
Thought
Saving
Saving Money
Spending
Spending Money
Rap
About
Songs
Beyond
Make
Because
Genuinely
Hear
Lot
Ironic
Irony
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