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Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.
Rick Springfield
Experience
Relationships
Songs
Come
Yes
Personal
Personal Experience
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
Rick Springfield
Life
My Life
About
Write
Songs
Wrote
Truthful
Autobiography
Which
Painfully
Why
I think 'pop' can be a bit of a dirty word. People are very cool in Australia. They don't like to admit that they like pop. There are people who listen to Triple J and cool stuff like that, but commercial radio is massive, and if you look at the sales of the pop songs every week, people love pop music.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
Love
Music
You
People
Word
Every
Think
Bit
Admit
Triple
Week
Dirty
Songs
Stuff
Like
Look
Massive
Sales
Australia
Very
Commercial
Listen
Pop
Pop Music
Pop Songs
Who
Cool
Radio
I started off making music that made fun of pop; now I'm nominated for helping produce pop songs that aim to be as honest as possible.
Ricky Reed
Music
Made
Aim
Possible
Songs
Nominated
Making
Off
Produce
Pop
Pop Songs
Fun
Helping
Now
Started
Honest
Big Pop songs are born of inspiration and spontaneity. The question becomes how do you create spontaneity when you're going into the studio five days a week?
Ricky Reed
You
Big
Born
Inspiration
Week
Songs
Studio
Days
Spontaneity
Becomes
How
Question
Five
Going
Create
Pop
Pop Songs
I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.
Ricky Skaggs
Love
Music
People
Have Fun
Try
Say
Find
Something
Songs
Hear
Just
Want
Fun
It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.
Rico Love
Good
Song
Gift
First
Could
Write
Songs
Know
Became
Heard
Even
I watch artists say they wrote all these songs and don't mention anybody else who was involved, and that's fine. I don't expect an artist to give me credit. I know that they're gonna take the credit for everything. But, it's my job to give myself that exposure and not make excuses, not grow bitter.
Rico Love
Myself
Me
Job
Else
Everything
Say
Bitter
Fine
Give
Give Me
Mention
Take
Songs
Excuses
Know
Involved
Wrote
Make
Expect
Artist
Artists
Anybody
Anybody Else
Gonna
Who
Exposure
Grow
Credit
Watch
I find that when I get on stage now, I don't want to perform a lot of my songs because they don't feel like me. So I want to make songs that are timeless.
Rihanna
Me
Stage
Find
Songs
Feel
Perform
Like
Make
Because
Lot
Timeless
Get
Want
Now
I am a big Beatles fan. And, you know, unbeknownst to anyone, I used to be one. But I have no problems of putting titles and lines from other songs in my songs, because they're great lines and great titles.
Ringo Starr
Great
You
Beatles
Problems
Big
Other
No Problems
Songs
Putting
Know
Because
Am
Lines
Anyone
Fan
Titles
Used
Universal was absolutely marvelous about sitting down with me and listening to my input. It wasn't something where they chose a bunch of songs that were best sellers. They did a marvelous job on the packaging. It's a beautiful tribute.
Rita Coolidge
Beautiful
Best
Me
Listening
Job
Down
Input
Tribute
About
Something
Marvelous
Absolutely
Songs
Were
Sellers
Bunch
Did
Sitting
Where
Packaging
Chose
Universal
You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.
Rita Ora
You
Tell
Given
Songs
Artist
Just
Honest
Most of the songs I write are just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.
Rivers Cuomo
Life
My Life
Big
Imagination
Out
Tried
Directly
Write
Songs
Most
Fake
Very
Just
Whenever
Fantasy
Really
I felt frustrated by the limitations of rock and the lifestyle of touring around on a bus and playing the same songs over and over. So I went back to school to study music, and one of the things I got into was the Italian opera composer Puccini.
Rivers Cuomo
Music
School
Back
Back To School
One Of The Things
Composer
Lifestyle
Songs
Touring
Study
Over
Opera
Around
Felt
Limitations
Rock
Got
Italian
Same
Frustrated
Bus
Things
Playing
Being in Weezer's just gotten so much more fun over the years. I love almost every part of my job. My very favorite part is working on new songs.
Rivers Cuomo
Love
Job
Every
Favorite
Favorite Part
More
Songs
Part
Almost
Over
New
Gotten
Years
Very
New Songs
Just
Being
Much
Working
Fun
In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.
Rob Sheffield
Sad
Loneliness
You
Pet
Big
Lust
Too
Heyday
City
Dressing
About
Guys
Songs
Weird
New
Sing
Boy
Big City
Were
Hear
New Order
Up
Cure
Mode
Shop
Depeche
Order
Eighties
Manner
Really
Pop
Pop Songs
Reason
Now
Why
'Drive,' that's the one. I love dozens of songs by R.E.M., but that's the one, even though it took me 7 or 8 years to start liking it.
Rob Sheffield
Love
Me
Drive
Took
Though
Songs
Liking
Years
Even
Dozens
Start
It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex.' All they had was songs.
Rob Sheffield
Power
Other
Spell
Rules
Some
Never
Had
Songs
Weird
Nobody
Town
How
Heard
Bands
Get
Eighties
Ignoring
Who
Chords
Even
Lived
Away
Play
I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn't affect anyone - come on.
Rob Zombie
Buy
Hurt
Fans
Will
Say
Kid
See
Some
Songs
Wisconsin
True
Come
Understand
Bedroom
Go
Affect
His
Movie
Anyone
After
Downloading
Why
Thinks
A lot of people from my generation can't write songs anymore, or it's really hard and it's an unpleasant experience. I don't feel that way at all.
Robbie Robertson
Generation
Experience
People
Way
Unpleasant
My Generation
Write
Songs
Feel
Lot
Anymore
Really
Hard
I just like traditional songs that come from an honest place, and they make you feel something and tell a story and they flow right.
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
You
Tell
Something
Songs
Feel
Come
Like
Make
Traditional
Just
Story
Place
Right
Flow
Honest
When music is crashing around us, when you hear the same five songs on the radio that aren't really saying much, we can always go back to great music. Great music always lives on.
Robert Glasper
Music
Saying
Great
You
Back
Great Music
Songs
Around
Always
Go
Hear
Five
Same
Crashing
Us
Much
Really
Radio
Lives
You're supposed to create new standards. The more you play songs by your peers, they become standards, you know? Miles Davis played 'Gingerbread Boy' 'cos he and Jimmy Heath were cool, you know? That's how the culture goes.
Robert Glasper
You
Culture
Become
Peers
Jimmy
More
Davis
Songs
He
New
Supposed
Know
Boy
How
Were
Goes
Heath
Create
Your
Miles
Miles Davis
Standards
Cool
Play
Played
I got really, really sick with a spinal infection that put me in a hospital for a couple of months, and it was touch and go. I had my guitar with me, and as soon as I got well enough to play, there was nothing else to do in that hospital. The nurses would come in and request songs.
Robert Hunter
Me
Guitar
Nothing
Sick
Enough
Else
Nurses
Months
Would
Spinal
Touch
Hospital
Had
Songs
Put
Soon
Come
Couple
Well
Well Enough
Got
Go
Infection
Request
Really
Play
The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.
Robert Plant
Exaggeration
Key
Kind
Vocal
Songs
Developed
Were
Based
I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.
Robert Smith
Entertainment
Old
Become
Else
Our
Once
Mine
Someone
Recorded
Songs
Put
Stuff
Been
Any
Listen
Old Stuff
Now
Ever
Hardly
Vinyl
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