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I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.
Roger Waters
Best
Creativity
Father
Think
Kid
Poetry
Could
Write
Songs
Instance
He
Going
Being
Happen
Story
Your
Helped
Things
I love performance, but I'm quite happy making videos as well, and I'm inordinately happy writing songs.
Roisin Murphy
Love
Happy
Writing
Videos
Inordinately
Songs
Performance
Well
Making
Quite
I like the Sci Fi channel and 'Science Fiction Theatre.' I've been doing a lot of television-watching and thinking about good songs to write.
Roky Erickson
Good
Science
Theatre
Thinking
Channel
About
Write
Songs
Like
Sci-Fi
Science Fiction
Doing
Been
Lot
Fiction
I started out writings songs for what I thought was going to be a maximum of five people down our local pub.
Romy Madley Croft
People
Thought
Down
Local
Our
Out
Songs
Writings
Five
Maximum
Going
Pub
Started
Well, you can't throw heavy, analytical, thought-provoking songs at people 24/7. It's been my experience over the last 20 years that on a rare occasion, in a live setting, if you can slow people down to listen to two good ballads, then you're doing pretty good. Then throw a tempo at 'em. Then have fun.
Ronnie Dunn
Good
You
Experience
People
Have Fun
Rare
Slow
Down
Live
Setting
Analytical
Pretty
Tempo
Pretty Good
Throw
Songs
Over
Well
Occasion
Ballads
Doing
Been
Years
Listen
Heavy
Then
Fun
Last
Two
Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.
Ronnie Montrose
Me
You
Gig
Vocal
Through
Write
Songs
Attempting
Like
Well
Felt
Motions
Caused
Go
Hammer
Repetitive
Fries
Banging
Any
Going
Just
Might
Oriented
Serving
So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.
Ronnie Spector
Love
Me
History
Baby
Songs
Wrong
Still
Hearing
Get
Them
I love the fact that 35 years later, I still hear my songs on the radio.
Ronnie Spector
Love
Later
Fact
Songs
Still
Hear
Years
Radio
I love my songs, let's not get crazy here.
Ronnie Spector
Love
Crazy
Songs
Get
Here
Songs are out there - they're waiting to be grabbed. I start with a phrase, musical and lyrical, words like 'I don't think so' and a nice riff. It rolls from there.
Ronnie Wood
Waiting
Words
Nice
Think
Lyrical
Musical
Out
Phrase
Songs
Like
Grabbed
Rolls
Riff
Start
I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.
Rosanne Cash
Me
Impossible
Write
Songs
Sing
Really
Found
I like to find music that shares a rhythm with the sentences I'm working on. And though I'll probably regret saying this, I think some songs actually don't sound too bad when they're played through lousy speakers.
Rosecrans Baldwin
Music
Saying
Regret
Think
Too
Though
Bad
Find
Some
Through
Songs
Shares
Like
Sound
Lousy
Rhythm
Sentences
Working
Speakers
Actually
Played
When I write songs, it's very random. I get influenced by the most random things! Sometimes it just comes to me in my sleep or just hanging out in a restaurant or something. Music just comes to me, and I'll start writing from there.
Roshon Fegan
Music
Me
Writing
Sometimes
Random
Out
Restaurant
Something
Write
Songs
Most
Very
Get
Hanging
Just
Influenced
Things
Start
Sleep
Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and singing, the chorus and all that, it just starts flowing. Then it's done in about an hour! I write a lot of songs.
Roshon Fegan
Writing
Singing
Starts
Once
Rapping
About
About An Hour
Write
Songs
Head
Hour
Lot
Off
Done
Just
Rhymes
Theme
Then
Chorus
Start
Flowing
You grow as a writer when you learn how to make songs flow from start to finish. That's the best song, when it's such a seamless process to get to this release at the chorus, this euphoric feeling. That's why the Beatles were so good - they did such a good job building so much tension in the beginning to this immaculate release, and then it ends.
Ross Lynch
Best
Good
You
Beatles
Song
Good Job
Job
Feeling
Building
Beginning
Immaculate
Release
Finish
Writer
Songs
Tension
Make
Learn
How
Were
Get
Did
Ends
In The Beginning
Process
Then
Much
Euphoric
Seamless
Grow
Chorus
Why
Start
Flow
At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.
Roy Harper
Me
Writing
School
Become
Thinking
Brought
Had
Songs
Daydreaming
Like
Learn
Because
Always
Doing
Up
Articulate
Fiddling
Really
Therapy
Grow
Grow Up
I learned my first songs when I was six and seven, and when I was eight years old, I won a local talent show.
Roy Orbison
Old
First
Local
Seven
Songs
Talent
Learned
Years
Won
Six
Eight
Show
Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.
Roy Wood
Song
Guitar
Mind
Write
Songs
Opening
Most
Sing
Left
Just
Unfortunately
Them
Choose
Now
Right
I like Taylor Swift a lot. She has really fun, catchy songs. It's so funny: I always say any guy that's gonna date her, just be careful, because if it doesn't work out, they know by now the next single is gonna be about them! I love how real she is. I really respect her a lot as an artist.
Rozonda Thomas
Work
Love
Funny
Respect
Single
Just Be
Say
Out
Be Careful
About
Guy
Date
Songs
Catchy
Like
Know
She
Because
Always
How
Real
Lot
Any
Artist
Just
Them
Gonna
Work Out
Really
Next
Taylor
Taylor Swift
Swift
Fun
Now
Her
Careful
We always try to make up a new signature dance for our songs.
Rozonda Thomas
Try
Dance
Our
Signature
Songs
New
Make
Make Up
Always
Up
There's not another lip-synch song on the planet, in the history of lip-synching songs, that has been lip-synched more than 'I Will Survive.'
RuPaul
History
Song
Will
Has-Been
More
Songs
Another
Been
Survive
Than
The History Of
Planet
The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city.
Ruben Blades
Life
Mother
Everybody
City
Student
Songs
Identified
Because
Were
Intellectual
Unemployed
Worker
Grandmother
Professional
Descriptions
I was never particularly a part of the following of tango; I just liked it... most of all, I recognized that the urban content and the approach seemed very familiar and very connected to the songs that I was doing, the kind of songs that I wanted to write - the songs about the street.
Ruben Blades
Approach
Recognized
Kind
Following
About
Seemed
Write
Never
Songs
Part
Liked
Most
Particularly
Content
Doing
Tango
Very
Familiar
Just
Wanted
Urban
Connected
Street
I was always interested in trying to find how different genres would affect the lyrics that I'd written. Salsa is where most of my songs have been recorded, the genre of salsa. It's very frenetic, fast-paced. And I felt that the lyrics sometimes were being lost.
Ruben Blades
Sometimes
Lost
Lyrics
Would
Find
Recorded
Songs
Written
Most
Genre
Genres
Felt
Always
How
Were
Affect
Been
Very
Trying
Being
Where
Different
Interested
Different Genres
Fast-Paced
The popular songs that were written in the 1920s and '30s, '40s and early '50s were written by veterans - mostly men who'd had experience in life. How can you write a lyric if you haven't really lived life?
Rudy Vallee
Life
You
Experience
Veterans
Men
Lyric
Write
Had
Songs
Written
Mostly
How
Were
Really
Popular
Lived
Early
They gave me four weeks, and I asked if the first week could be just music with the two main conductors. So, the conductors came over to my home, and we worked in the music room, and I learned my two little songs.
Rue McClanahan
Music
Home
Me
First
Gave
Week
Could
Weeks
Main
Songs
Over
Learned
Came
Conductors
Just
Little
Room
Worked
Asked
Four
Two
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