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I thought the '60s was the most exciting time and the most vital music, and we were really together as one mind then. Then afterwards, the songs and the bad drugs, that took its toll.
Mickey Hart
Music
Time
Together
Mind
Thought
Took
Bad
Vital
Songs
Exciting
Exciting Time
Most
Were
Afterwards
Then
Really
Toll
Probably the first artist who really captured me was Tim McGraw. His songs 'Don't Take the Girl' and 'Indian Outlaw' were fun, and he was different than a lot of artists.
Mickie James
Me
Girl
First
Indian
Outlaw
Take
Songs
He
Tim
Were
His
Lot
Than
Artist
Artists
Different
Really
Who
Fun
Captured
I realized you can be the dopest producer technically, but if the songs don't give you emotion, it doesn't matter.
Mija
You
Matter
Technically
Give
Emotion
Songs
Realized
Producer
I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write.
Mika
Time
Project
Find
Brought
Throughout
Write
Songs
Identity
Around
Cultures
Up
Different
Want
Different Cultures
Moving
Many
I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.
Mika
Myself
Become
Else
Something
Something Else
Write
Songs
Want
Turn
Then
No disrespect to people that don't use music theory or don't know it. It does help to be able to figure out what key a song is in, even though with your scales you can figure it out so you can set your Auto-Tune right. So many songs with Auto-Tune are off or have the wrong note playing on the 808. And they pass it off as being hood.
Mike Dean
Music
You
People
Song
Key
Disrespect
Hood
Though
Scales
Out
Able
Songs
Wrong
Know
Does
Pass
Off
Being
Note
Use
Your
Figure
Theory
Help
Many
Even
Right
Playing
Set
When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.
Mike Dirnt
Truth
Me
Speak
Rat
Smell
Some
Songs
Like
Listen
Deeper
If part of the purpose of making an album is to get some radio play, then you might as well think about that. But that's not really how we picked the songs.
Mike Gordon
You
Think
Some
About
Purpose
Songs
Part
Picked
Well
How
Making
Get
Might
Then
Really
Radio
Play
Album
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime.
Mike Love
Music
History
You
Church
Will
Think
Immortal
Composers
Some
Classical
Classical Composers
Lifetime
Songs
Longer
Look
Existed
Close
Than
The History Of
Etc
Centuries
Pop
Pop Music
Last
We came from the '60s era, when we started and made so many hits. The song value from the '60s was so darn good, you've got The Beatles, The Beach Boys, all of Motown, and plenty of other people, too... amazing records, amazing songs.
Mike Love
Good
You
Beatles
People
Song
Amazing
Value
Made
Too
Other
Plenty
Darn
Beach
Beach Boys
Records
Songs
Boy
Got
Era
Came
Motown
Hits
Many
Started
I wrote all the lyrics on 'Good Vibrations' and most of them in 'Kokomo.' 'Kokomo' was extremely popular and fun to sing - it's probably one of the bigger sing-along songs in our show. But then 'Help Me Rhonda,' 'Surfin' USA' and 'California Girls' and 'I Get Around' and 'Fun, Fun, Fun' are great songs as well.
Mike Love
Good
Great
Me
Girl
Our
Lyrics
Extremely
Songs
Great Songs
Most
Sing
Wrote
California
Well
Around
Get
Vibrations
Bigger
Them
Then
USA
Show
Help
Fun
Popular
Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them.
Mike Love
Singing
Top
Out
Beach
Beach Boys
Lead
Songs
Boy
Maybe
Them
Fifty
Forty
Writing songs with Brian and performing them with Al Jardine, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, David Marks, Bruce Johnston and many other brilliant musicians over the years is my legacy, and something of which I am very proud and protective.
Mike Love
Musicians
Writing
Brilliant
Other
Marks
Wilson
Bruce
Something
David
Songs
Over
Performing
Protective
Proud
Am
Years
Very
Legacy
Which
Them
Brian
Many
Al
I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs.
Mike Lowry
Time
Think
Write
Tour
Never
Had
Songs
Lot
Much
Really
Used
We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.
Mike Lowry
Way
Write
Songs
Always
Wanted
Experimental
There are so many songs that we just don't play anymore.
Mike Lowry
Songs
Just
Anymore
Many
Play
Until Mad Season, I didn't have that confidence to write songs, and I really got it, playing with these guys. It meant the world to me.
Mike McCready
Me
Confidence
World
Mad
Guys
Write
Songs
Until
Got
Really
Meant
Season
Playing
People will steal ideas and put them into songs.
Mike McCready
People
Will
Steal
Songs
Put
Ideas
Them
Soundgarden are kind of the masters of writing songs that aren't pop cliches.
Mike McCready
Writing
Kind
Songs
Cliches
Masters
Soundgarden
Pop
When they're singing the guitar lines of songs in South America? Never heard that before. And in Canada, when they're singing all of the lyrics to every song - that blows me away. I don't know all the lyrics to every song.
Mike McCready
Me
Song
Guitar
Singing
Before
Every
Lyrics
Never
Songs
Know
Heard
Lines
South
South America
Canada
America
Blows
Away
I wanted to start doing more music, doing more things than just playing guitar. I started taking singing lessons and piano lessons. I need to learn more things, to be an artist or whatever, and then transfer that back into writing songs.
Mike McCready
Music
Writing
Guitar
Singing
Whatever
Back
More
Piano
Piano Lessons
Songs
Taking
Learn
Singing Lessons
Doing
Than
Artist
Just
Wanted
Transfer
Then
Lessons
Things
Start
Started
Playing
Need
I take a lot of pride in my songs.
Mike Posner
Pride
Take
Songs
Lot
Avicii's been a supporter of my music for years, and we've been writing songs together for a long time.
Mike Posner
Music
Time
Together
Writing
Long
Long Time
Songs
Supporter
Been
Years
I came to realize that if I was going to succeed in the music industry, I was going to have to learn how to perform my songs myself.
Mike Posner
Music
Myself
Music Industry
Songs
Perform
Industry
Learn
How
Came
Going
Succeed
Realize
It's important to me that my songs actually make sense. So often, I turn on the radio, and I have no idea what the people are singing about. It may sound good, but when you listen, they're just saying words that rhyme. It's another song about nothing.
Mike Posner
Saying
Good
Me
You
People
Song
Words
Important
Singing
Sense
Nothing
No Idea
About
Songs
Idea
Make
Another
Sound
Listen
May
Often
Just
Rhyme
Turn
Turn-On
Radio
Actually
A lot of my friends who I wrote or produced songs for came back and helped me make 'Pages.' It's better than I ever could have imagined.
Mike Posner
Me
Better
Back
Could
Songs
Wrote
Make
Came
Lot
Friends
Than
Produced
Pages
Who
Helped
Ever
Imagined
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