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We cut songs that touch us because if they don't touch us first, there's no way in the world we're going to be able to sell those songs to somebody else.
Jay DeMarcus
World
Somebody
First
Else
Way
Those
Able
Touch
Songs
Because
Sell
Going
Cut
Us
That's what we all hope and dream to do, when we stand in front of the mirror with our Goody comb and sing into it, is to have a bunch of songs that have touched people so much that they want to hear 'em every night.
Jay DeMarcus
Hope
People
Mirror
Every
Our
Dream
Touched
Songs
Comb
Sing
Hear
Bunch
Front
Want
Much
Stand
Every Night
Night
I went to jail at 17. While I was there, I discovered that I could write. Once I started making some songs, other inmates wanted to know a little bit more about what I was doing, and they asked me to rap for them. They really liked it, and I made it a goal to come out and try to make something out of the music.
Jay IDK
Music
Me
Try
Made
Other
Once
Bit
Rap
Out
Some
About
Something
More
Could
Write
Songs
Come
Know
Liked
Make
Making
Doing
Discovered
Goal
Jail
Wanted
While
Little
Little Bit
Them
Asked
Really
Started
My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.
Jay Kay
Work
Good
You
Guitar
Three
Keyboard
Way
Machine
Those
Out
Voice
Songs
Stuff
Like
Drum
Know
Got
Sound
Hammer
Scotland
Just
Middle
Place
Little
Your
Nowhere
Things
I always sang around the house. My brother and I would sing songs like 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame' and stuff like that.
Jean Louisa Kelly
Me
Out
Would
Brother
Take
Songs
Stuff
Like
House
Sing
Around
Always
Ballgame
Sang
Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.
Jeff Ament
Bass
Songs
Picked
Written
Since
Up
Ever
I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part was in the essential act of singing. When is it that the voice becomes an elixir? It's during flirting, courtship, sex. Music's all that.
Jeff Buckley
Music
Learning
Sex
Singing
Voice
Songs
Part
Cathartic
Known
Became
Becomes
Always
Courtship
Discovering
Essential
Human
Act
Flirting
Basics
I'm actually the son of Mary Guibert. My mother was born in the Panama Canal zone and came to America when she was five with my grandmother and grandfather, and that was the family I knew. Everybody sang; everybody had songs all the time, and they loved music.
Jeff Buckley
Music
Time
Family
Son
Mother
Everybody
Born
Mary
Had
Songs
Knew
She
Came
Five
Canal
America
Loved
Grandfather
Grandmother
Sang
Actually
Zone
Panama
A song just doesn't have verse-chorus-verse. It could just be one line. There are Chinese love songs that you have to learn one melody for a three-minute thing, and nothing ever repeats. I like that.
Jeff Buckley
Love
You
Song
Love Songs
Just Be
Nothing
Melody
One Line
Could
Songs
Like
Learn
Line
Repeats
Just
Chinese
Ever
Thing
In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge. I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part was in the essential act of singing.
Jeff Buckley
Myself
Learning
Singing
Emerge
Through
Songs
Part
Put
New
Cathartic
Identity
Known
Became
Always
Real
Discovering
Essential
Childhood
Human
Wanted
Act
Whole
Shows
Early
Basics
My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatever's coming next.
Jeff Mangum
Time
Whatever
Pretty
Songs
Most
Coming
Brain
Revolve
Much
Next
I like making songs up. Whether or not they're great songs or good songs, whatever. It's something I've always done, and I definitely feel like I've gotten better at it.
Jeff Tweedy
Good
Great
Better
Whatever
Definitely
Something
Songs
Great Songs
Feel
Like
Always
Making
Gotten
Up
Done
Whether
I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.
Jeff Tweedy
Work
Think
Everybody
Easier
Some
About
Having
Songs
Know
Makes
Lot
Precious
Going
Want
Anything
Them
Hard
Less
Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.
Jeff Tweedy
Myself
Writing
Think
Out
Collecting
Geared
Some
Songs
Part
Toward
Come
Know
Making
Brain
Up
Get
Moment
Even
Things
I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.
Jeff Tweedy
Nature
Think
Thinking
Kind
About
Songs
Studio
Always
Get
Any
Just
Just Kind
Anything
Realize
Working
Things
Second
Second Nature
If you click on MTV, it's the same 10 bands and the same 10 songs, and it gets so old. Kids are looking for something besides what they get on the radio.
Jeffree Star
You
Old
Looking
Kids
Besides
Something
Songs
Click
Bands
Get
Same
Gets
Radio
In all the time I was with L.T.D., I was never allowed to do an interview by myself. I wasn't even allowed to talk on stage between songs. I couldn't get a publishing agreement or a production deal because everyone had their own little role to play in the group... and the money, well, anything split 10 ways can't be much.
Jeffrey Osborne
Time
Myself
Money
Own
Stage
Group
Interview
Everyone
Ways
Split
Never
Had
Songs
Allowed
Between
Talk
Well
Because
Deal
Role
Get
Anything
Little
Much
Production
Even
Agreement
Play
Publishing
I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.
Jello Biafra
Music
Writing
Lyrics
Francisco
Songs
Until
San
San Francisco
Them
Turning
Really
Start
Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would.
Jennifer Damiano
Love
Amazing
Girl
Those
Would
Could
Write
Songs
Like
Most
Sure
Female
Female Artists
Any
Quite
Artists
Them
Younger
Themselves
If I Could
Really
Cool
Ever
Apple
I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment.
Jennifer Egan
Love
Music
Time
You
Remember
Nothing
Think
Teenage
Else
Teenage Years
Back
Music Scene
Way
Those
One Thing
Scene
Through
Songs
Part
Almost
Feel
Almost Nothing
Like
Know
Fell
Makes
Were
Years
Cuts
Us
Certain
Certain Way
Moment
Thing
Earlier
People define themselves to some degree by the music that they listened to as teens. My mom had Elvis. Me, I had 'The Who' and later punk rock. Kids who came up in the '80s had other songs and bands. It's a way of placing ourselves culturally and temporally.
Jennifer Egan
Music
Mom
Me
People
Punk
Degree
Other
Teens
Elvis
Later
Way
Define
Kids
Ourselves
Punk Rock
Some
Had
Songs
Rock
Came
Up
Bands
Listened
The Who
Placing
Themselves
Who
I know that the music industry has changed, but I'd love it if Adele and John Legend would write me songs.
Jennifer Holliday
Love
Music
Me
Legend
Changed
Music Industry
Adele
Would
John
Write
Songs
Know
Industry
I do think the love-gone-wrong songs go over better, only because those melodies and those lyrics have a different feel that you can grasp on if you're a torch singer like myself.
Jennifer Holliday
Myself
You
Better
Think
Lyrics
Melodies
Those
Torch
Only
Songs
Feel
Over
Like
Singer
Because
Go
Different
Grasp
Puffy produced four of the tracks on the album. Those are the four songs that are collaborations between Puffy and me. And he gives me my space to work even when we work together, like with my producer and my vocal coach.
Jennifer Lopez
Work
Me
Together
Space
Collaborations
Those
Vocal
Gives
Songs
He
Between
Like
Tracks
Work Together
Produced
Producer
Coach
Even
Four
Album
Puffy
I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.
Jenny Lewis
Band
Bass
Everything
Out
Pretty
Beat
Songs
Idea
Drum
Demo
Well
Hammer
Very
Manage
Where
Much
Garage
Play
Songs are really interesting in that way. Sometimes, they grow with you. Sometimes, you outgrow them.
Jenny Lewis
You
Sometimes
Way
Outgrow
Songs
Interesting
Them
Really
Grow
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