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I learn my songs by ear.
Kate Smith
Songs
Learn
Ear
My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.
Kate Voegele
Time
Writing
First
Living
TV
Tried
TV Set
Promoting
Record
About
Take
Tour
Tour Bus
Songs
Written
Road
First Time
Personal
Personal Experiences
Being
Experiences
While
Bus
Them
Elevate
Second
Universal
Album
Set
I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.
Kate Voegele
Freedom
Me
People
Worth
Build
Recital
Compose
Some
Rather
More
Gives
Had
Songs
Stuff
Know
Well-Balanced
Always
Material
Than
Just
Want
Show
Now
Play
Albums
Two
Set
I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.
Kate Voegele
Art
Natural
Writing
Guitar
Listening
King
Organic
Think
Those
Out
Some
Fact
Inspired
Songs
Joni Mitchell
Songwriting
Mainly
Sort
Always
Mitchell
Came
Up
Very
Just
Artists
James
Grew
James Taylor
Interest
Taylor
Started
Playing
I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
Kate Voegele
You
Amazing
Tree
Incredible
Musician
Record
About
Songs
Knew
Vehicle
Know
Hill
She
Off
Role
Going
Show
Playing
Basically
Plays
My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock... whatever you want to call it is OK with me.
Kate Voegele
Music
Good
Me
You
Soul
People
Feeling
Whatever
OK
Kind
Songs
Call
Rock
Soup
Chicken
Get
Want
Roots
Good Feeling
I can understand why guys wouldn't be into 'Glee.' You know, that's a pretty heavy musical show. That show does, like, six songs in an episode.
Katharine McPhee
You
Musical
Pretty
Guys
Songs
Glee
Like
Know
Understand
Does
Six
Heavy
Episode
Show
Why
With 'Believe' bringing really big success for me outside of the U.K. for the first time, it meant I have been touring around the world and that led to a gap from the studio. I really feel like the gap has done me the world of good. Throughout that time I was able to collect songs that I really loved.
Katherine Jenkins
Success
Time
Good
Me
World
First
Big
Believe
Collect
Able
Throughout
Outside
Songs
Touring
Studio
Feel
Like
Around
First Time
Been
Led
Done
Big Success
Loved
Really
Meant
Gap
Bringing
I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do.
Katherine Jenkins
Best
Me
Believe
Tells
Record
Never
No-One
Songs
Instance
Know
Concerts
Want
Anything
Choose
I find motion, literally, is where ideas come from. It's almost like a built-in rhythm section. The contents of the songs are about change, and a lot of that stuff happens when you're on tour, and you wake up and you're in a different place and you start thinking about where you're going and where you've been.
Kathleen Edwards
You
Change
Wake Up
Thinking
Section
Find
About
Tour
Songs
Almost
Stuff
Come
Like
Ideas
Contents
Motion
Been
Lot
Wake
Up
Going
Where
Different
Literally
Happens
Place
Rhythm
Rhythm Section
Different Place
Start
If I can't sing them myself, there's nothing better than writing songs for other people and watching them be performed. It's kind of more thrilling than doing it yourself.
Kathleen Hanna
Myself
Yourself
People
Writing
Better
Nothing
Other
Kind
More
Thrilling
Songs
Performed
Sing
Doing
Than
Them
Watching
I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.
Kathleen Hanna
Love
Great
Country
Great Country
Would
Write
Songs
Singers
Make
Demos
Bunch
Really
I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that.
Kathy Mattea
Try
Honor
Shine
Some
Point
Songs
Stuff
Come
Know
Also
Steward
Around
Understand
Context
Provide
Role
Revolves
Artist
Center
Them
Really
Level
With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.
Katy Perry
To Be Honest
Pledged
Write
Songs
Because
Always
Them
Lived
Honest
The DJ thing is just a way for me to perform my songs in public. It put me on the map, and a lot of people discovered me because of my DJing and later found out that I made beats.
Kaytranada
Me
People
Made
Later
Way
Out
Songs
Beats
Put
Perform
Because
Discovered
Lot
Just
Public
Map
Found
Thing
But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.
Keegan Allen
Love
Music
Would
Some
Someone
Give
Could
Write
Songs
Feel
Like
Sing
She
Because
Them
Taylor
Taylor Swift
Swift
You start singing by singing what you hear. So everyone, when they first start singing, they naturally are singing like whatever they're hearing, because that's the only way you learned how to sing. So when I was growing up on Lauryn Hill, when I started singing her songs, I literally trained my voice to be able to do runs.
Kehlani
You
First
Singing
Whatever
Everyone
Way
Runs
Lauryn Hill
Able
Only
Voice
Songs
Like
Hill
Sing
Learned
Because
How
Hear
Hearing
Up
Trained
Literally
Naturally
Growing
Growing Up
Her
Start
Started
Sometimes I make songs about girls, and I say 'he,' or I'll make songs about guys, and I say 'she,' or sometimes they're exactly what they're about. I feel like it just allows me to get a lot more perspective.
Kehlani
Me
Sometimes
Perspective
Girl
Say
Exactly
Exactly What
About
Guys
More
Songs
He
Feel
Like
She
Make
Lot
Get
Just
It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record.
Keith Urban
Time
You
Writing
Try
Two-Year
Collected
Collecting
Record
Costly
Write
Had
Songs
Over
Until
Period
Leave
Been
Get
Little
Then
Next
It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.
Keith Urban
You
Writing
Long
Recording
Looking
Year
Think
Month
All Year
Case
Songs
Bunch
Turning
Next
I make no apologies for being a huge fan of radio songs.
Keith Urban
Songs
Make
Huge
Huge Fan
Being
Fan
Apology
Radio
I started writing when I was, like, eleven. We couldn't afford private lessons, so I had to teach myself how to sing through recording songs on GarageBand.
Keiynan Lonsdale
Myself
Writing
Recording
Through
Had
Songs
Like
Sing
How
Private
Afford
Teach
Lessons
Eleven
Started
I don't want you to feel defeated, like, 'Oh boy, why do you do this to me?' We have too many of those songs.
Kelela
Me
You
Too
Those
Songs
Feel
Like
Boy
Oh
Want
Many
Why
Defeated
'Take Me Apart' doesn't feel cohesive in a singular way but in a varied way. You can fixate on individual songs, and there are references from all over the place: Anita Baker to Bjork. I wanted to show all the facets of myself.
Kelela
Myself
Me
You
Way
Facets
Varied
Individual
Take
Songs
Feel
Over
Baker
Singular
References
Wanted
Place
Apart
Show
Cohesive
When I'm picking songs for an album I always want a song that I can relate to and that I have experienced. There's nothing worse than watching an artist try and sell a song that isn't believable coming from them.
Kelly Clarkson
Song
Try
Nothing
Relate
Worse
Songs
Picking
Always
Coming
Sell
Than
Artist
Experienced
Want
Them
Believable
Album
Watching
I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me - who I write about too - they get it. It's my creative outlet, my therapy.
Kelly Clarkson
Life
Work
Me
Musicians
Creative
People
Too Much
Real Life
Same Thing
Guarded
Too
About
Outlet
Date
Perfect
Write
Never
Songs
Reveal
Real
Lot
Get
Same
Much
Who
Therapy
Creative Outlet
Thing
Amount
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