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It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.
Jenny Lewis
You
Song
Amazing
Films
Circumstances
Some
Pretty
Someone
Gives
Write
Songs
Written
Couple
Accepted
Left
Up
Times
Forever
Get
Ended
Any
Any Circumstances
Then
Disney
Even
Actually
Assignment
I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive.
Jenny Lewis
Music
Myself
Else
Alive
Stay
Something
Write
Tour
Songs
Anyone
Anyone Else
Really
Play
Play Music
Instrumental music can be about anything. It's about a mood, and I usually title my instrumental songs long after they're written. Sometimes I figure out the titles when I'm doing the CD package, and that's very common for a lot of people who write instrumental music.
Jenny Scheinman
Music
People
Sometimes
Long
Mood
Out
About
Write
Songs
Written
Instrumental
Doing
Lot
Very
Common
After
Anything
Title
Package
Titles
Figure
Who
I always play songs that are very based in folk music.
Jenny Scheinman
Music
Folk
Folk Music
Songs
Always
Very
Based
Play
All the Jewish tradition I had came from my grandmother, who grew up in Palestine and eloped with my grandfather and went to New York. She lived very close to us until she died when I was around 20. She sang a lot of songs, led the Passover seders. It was a very rich part of my life, and my grandmother was a big part of my life.
Jenny Scheinman
Life
My Life
Big
Rich
Had
Songs
Part
New
Until
She
Around
Came
Tradition
Led
Lot
Up
Very
Close
Big Part
York
Died
New York
Grew
Grandfather
Us
Grandmother
Sang
Who
Lived
Palestine
Jewish
Every wedding is slightly different from the other. But you always get to meet the funny uncle and the weirdo relatives, and there's always someone trying to beat you up for not playing enough Beatles songs or something.
Jens Lekman
Funny
You
Beatles
Relatives
Uncle
Every
Other
Enough
Meet
Slightly
Someone
Something
Wedding
Beat
Beatles Songs
Songs
Weirdo
Always
Up
Get
Trying
Different
Playing
I think a lot of my songs are very silly and very stupid, written to entertain people, but in the end, I always come to that last line, and I feel that I have to wrap this up with a bit of dignity and a little tear in the eye; otherwise, the joke would be on the characters in the song.
Jens Lekman
Dignity
People
Song
Joke
Stupid
Think
Otherwise
Bit
Eye
Characters
Entertain
Entertain People
Would
Would-Be
Wrap
Silly
Songs
Written
Feel
Come
Always
Line
Lot
End
Up
Very
In The End
Little
Tear
Last
I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things would get better.
Jens Lekman
Music
Me
Better
Control
Would
More
Write
Had
Songs
Were
Than
Get
Controls
Realised
Convincing
Things
I think of the Jens Lekman in the songs as a completely different person who's stealing my stories.
Jens Lekman
Think
Stealing
Songs
Person
Different
Stories
Different Person
I try and take it for what it is, and I'm very at peace with the fact that when I'm done with the songs, they don't belong to me anymore. They belong to the listeners.
Jens Lekman
Me
Peace
Try
Fact
Take
Songs
Very
Done
Listeners
Anymore
Belong
When I first got signed, I used to literally pick up a pen and pad. Write bars in my notes, even whole songs. Nowadays, I just go off the feeling.
Jeremih
First
Feeling
Nowadays
Pen
Signed
Write
Pick
Songs
Got
Go
Off
Up
Just
Literally
Notes
Pad
Used
Whole
Bars
Even
I've written songs before, and I don't want to share them with anybody. It's really personal for me, that sort of creative outlet where you put your emotions to paper or put to song. I don't do it that much anymore, but to let someone in on that outlet and to have it susceptible to judgment is scary.
Jeremy Jordan
Me
You
Creative
Song
Emotions
Judgment
Before
Paper
Scary
Someone
Outlet
Songs
Share
Written
Put
Sort
Personal
Susceptible
Anybody
Where
Want
Anymore
Them
Much
Really
Your
Creative Outlet
The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.
Jeremy Renner
Music
Me
Business
People
Impossible
Difficult
Other
Music Business
Record
Totally
Piano
Songs
Feel
Sing
Verified
Cameras
Very
Bands
Just
Movie
Form
Movie Business
Agents
Expression
Play
Need
I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it.
Jeremy Spencer
Guitar
Simple
Simplicity
Way
Vocals
Lead
Songs
Lead Guitar
Like
Just
Chords
My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.
Jerry Harrison
Writing
Singing
Advice
Other
Songs
Away
Right
Right Away
Start
I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have a career as much as I'm having an adventure with a guitar. I never liked the business way of doing it. You have to follow some sort of instinct.
Jerry Jeff Walker
You
Business
Guitar
Try
Care
Will
Way
Further
Follow
Some
About
Having
Write
Never
Songs
Instinct
Adventure
Liked
Sort
Doing
Much
Things
Career
Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal.
Jerry Leiber
Black
Born
Delivered
Songs
Bags
Red-Hot
Were
Baltimore
Where
Cans
Coal
Streets
Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.'
Jerry Leiber
Change
People
Song
White
Bass
Our
Marketing
Kids
Songs
Bought
Attracted
Became
Rock
Still
Were
Did
Hits
Roll
Transcend
Being
Pattern
Why
Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.
Jerry Only
Politics
Music
Time
Good
Great
Together
People
Money
Good Time
Having
Having A Good Time
Pursuit
Songs
Great Songs
Around
Doing
Bunch
Them
Really
Should
Based
The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.
Jerry Only
Punk
Drawing
Dream
Songs
True
Between
New
Come
Sing
Rock
Got
Rock And Roll
Cover
Line
Were
Bunch
Roll
Childhood
Childhood Dream
Form
Influential
Ronnie
Original
Album
Spector
Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.
Jerry Only
You
Beatles
Thought
Seven
Danny
Statistics
Record
Some
Songs
Days
Look
Until
Wrote
Close
Which
Might
'Rather Be' and 'Real Love' are two of the most fun songs to perform; they're such feel-good tracks. 'Rather Be,' especially - I've sung it so many times, but I'm still not bored of it.
Jess Glynne
Love
Sung
Bored
Rather
Songs
Perform
Most
Tracks
Real
Still
Real Love
Times
Fun
Many
Two
I love having other people sing my songs.
Jesse Harris
Love
People
Other
Having
Songs
Sing
I love Neil Young. His songs were the first songs I learned to play, and I recommend anyone who is starting guitar to learn Neil Young songs first.
Jesse Harris
Love
Guitar
First
Young
Neil
Neil Young
Recommend
Songs
Learn
Learned
Were
His
Anyone
Who
Play
Starting
I have about 4 albums of Disney songs, but the embarrassing part is that I know each song word for word, and have dances choreographed for most.
Jessica De Gouw
Song
Word
Dances
Embarrassing
About
Songs
Part
Know
Most
Disney
Each
Albums
Some songs just resonate with you.
Jessie Buckley
You
Resonate
Some
Songs
Just
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