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I have amassed an enormous amount of songs about every particular condition of humankind - children's songs, marriage songs, death songs, love songs, epic songs, mystical songs, songs of leaving, songs of meeting, songs of wonder. I pretty much have got a song for every occasion.
Donovan
Love
Death
Marriage
Song
Love Songs
Every
Enormous
Meeting
Pretty
About
Mystical
Songs
Particular
Occasion
Got
Leaving
Condition
Wonder
Children
Epic
Much
Amount
Humankind
The songs I write and sing try to say important things with a lightness.
Donovan
Try
Important
Important Things
Say
Write
Songs
Lightness
Sing
Things
The way I sing my songs leads the listener into a place of introspection, a state of mind that can trigger self-healing and the kind of profound rest you cannot get from sleep alone.
Donovan
Alone
You
Mind
Rest
State
Way
Kind
Introspection
Trigger
Songs
Leads
Sing
Get
Listener
Cannot
Place
Profound
Sleep
I think my legacy is important because my songs - perhaps more than those of any other songwriter I know - cover every movement from 1965 on, socially and artistically. If you want songs about ecology, I've got ecology songs; if you want songs about spirituality, I've got spiritual songs.
Donovan
Spiritual
You
Spirituality
Important
Every
Think
Other
Those
About
More
Ecology
Songs
Songwriter
Perhaps
Know
Because
Got
Cover
Legacy
Than
Any
Movement
Want
Socially
In the '20s and '30s, there were these musicals either set on college campuses or based on classical stories, so any of the Rodgers and Hart musicals certainly influenced me. I was definitely influenced by any of the 'Porgy' songs; I was influenced by 'American Pie.'
Douglas Carter Beane
Me
College
Definitely
Hart
Musicals
College Campuses
Classical
Songs
Pie
Were
Rodgers
American
Any
Influenced
Stories
Either
American Pie
Certainly
Based
Set
There is nothing like the buzz of singing one of your songs during a show and hearing your fans singing with you.
Dove Cameron
You
Fans
Singing
Nothing
Songs
Like
Hearing
Your
Show
Buzz
I can remember when I was just, like, about four years old in Compton, and my mother would have me stack 45s, stack about ten of them, and when one would finish, the next record would drop. It was like I was DJ'ing for the house, picking out certain songs and so this song would go after that song.
Dr. Dre
Me
Song
Remember
Mother
Old
Drop
Out
Would
Record
About
Ten
Finish
Songs
Remember When
Picking
Like
House
Go
Years
Stack
Just
After
Them
Next
Certain
Four
I sequence during the entire recording process. The sequencing changes as I'm recording and as I'm listening. From when I'm, like, four songs in, I start trying to figure out which song should come after which. Which is important, and it changes as the album goes.
Dr. Dre
Song
Listening
Recording
Important
Changes
Out
Entire
Songs
Come
Like
Trying
Goes
After
Process
Which
Should
Figure
Sequence
Sequencing
Four
Start
Album
When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.
Drake
Music
You
Writing
Matter
Lose
Live
Thinking
Back
Hook
Rap
About
Potent
Crowd
Onstage
Songs
Stuff
Sing
How
Going
Want
Translate
Fifty
Your
Bars
Play
I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super early' guy. I've just always been that way.
Drake Bell
Christmas
Listening
Way
Super
Totally
Guy
Songs
Always
Been
Just
Decorate
Start
Early
I'm nervous the first few songs, and then I'm like, 'I got this audience. I'm ready!'
Drake Bell
Nervous
First
Few
Songs
Like
Audience
Ready
Got
Then
I had heard some Elvis songs on the radio. During Christmastime, they'd play 'Blue Christmas,' and I knew I liked his songs, but I didn't know who it was singing them. I just knew I liked them... I started reading, watching, and just picking up everything I could about him.
Drake Milligan
Christmas
Singing
Reading
Everything
Elvis
Some
About
Could
Had
Songs
Knew
Picking
Know
Liked
Him
His
Heard
Up
Blue
Just
Them
Who
Radio
Play
Started
Started Reading
Watching
We wrote the songs we wrote - we took from our own experiences, melded it together, and wrote what became 'Appetite For Destruction.'
Duff McKagan
Together
Destruction
Own
Took
Our
Songs
Wrote
Became
Experiences
Appetite
I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.
Duncan Sheik
Tired
First
Singing
Other
Kind
Record
About
Songs
Road
Also
Make
Got
Yeah
Years
Than
Romance
Wanted
After
Things
Album
Two
I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs.
Dweezil Zappa
Guitar
Sit
Down
Those
Guitar Players
See
Magazines
Something
Songs
Almost
Like
Learn
Cover
Offense
Anybody
Mean
Really
Why
Play
Players
Creed
Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show.
Dwight Yoakam
Extremely
Circumstances
Recorded
Given
Variety
Songs
Perform
Surround
Any
Depending
Fulfilling
Fortunately
Show
Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.
Earl King
You
People
Say
People Say
Songs
Categorize
Most
Sing
Well
However
Just
Blues
Want
Earl
We've never been a band that gets up on stage and says, 'OK, we're going to play our entire new album.' Of course we want to introduce new music, but we also want to play the songs people want to sing along with.
Ed Kowalczyk
Music
People
Band
Stage
Our
OK
Says
Introduce
Entire
Never
Songs
New
Along
Sing
Also
Course
Been
New Music
Up
Gets
Going
Want
Play
Album
I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.
Ed Kowalczyk
Matter
Trouble
Finding
Inspiration
Never
Had
Songs
New
Doing
New Songs
From the very beginning, we were all a hundred and ten percent about the music, from the very early days when we could barely play our instruments, and we were just covering other people's songs when we were in high school.
Ed Kowalczyk
Music
People
School
Beginning
Other
Our
Hundred
High
High School
About
Percent
Ten
Could
Songs
Days
Instruments
Were
Covering
Very
Just
Barely
Play
Early
Early Days
Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
Ed Sheeran
Writing
Girl
Guess
Bit
Tend
Write
Songs
Instead
Weird
Which
Albums
I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
Ed Sheeran
Music
Become
Musician
Could
Colours
Songs
Know
Artist
Quite
Arty
Whether
Realised
Paint
My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
Ed Sheeran
Love
Big
Love Songs
Songs
Weird
Stuff
Because
Chest
Off
Very
Hit
Get
Personal
Quite
Really
Therapy
Radio
Basically
David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
Eddie Van Halen
Music
Home
You
Song
Feeling
Half
Stupid
Own
Else
Dancing
Way
Way Home
Van
Would
Van Halen
Someone
My Own
Rather
David
Had
Songs
Idea
Like
Halen
Doing
Were
Covered
Lee
Than
Successful
Roth
Bomb
Streets
Started
Playing
When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
Eddie Vedder
Guitar
First
Ramones
Solos
Entire
Could
Songs
Along
Sort
Got
Play
Ted
This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
Eddy Arnold
Great
Relationship
Every
Once
Seventh
Great Relationship
Had
Songs
Decade
Get
Hankering
Which
While
Again
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