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I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.
— Michael Cerveris
I change lyrics to the songs all the time, too. I don't know if it matters in a lot of ways because you can take what you want from it.
— Matt Corby
It's good having a lot of different songs to choose from to do the show. It means you don't get bored of doing it in one particular genre.
— Bryan Ferry
I was essentially trained by Oscar Hammerstein to think of songs as one-act plays, to move a song from point A to point B dramatically.
— Stephen Sondheim
I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record ... So I was just writing songs.
— Billy Sherwood
I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
— Adam Jones
Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.
— Rick Springfield
And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
— Beau Bridges
I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.
— Jens Lekman
This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.
— Christopher Owens
Was I made for Antonio by dint of my genetics? Was I an animal from birth? Had the ream me been dormant all this time?
— C.D. Reiss
I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not that kind of a fan.
— Sebastian Bach
I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.
— William Beckett
I think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand.
— Emma Anderson
A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.
— Ransom Riggs
I relate to all of my songs and I'm inspired by everything going on around me. Music comes from all different aspects of my life.
— Vanessa Hudgens
We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.
— Ruth St. Denis
Most songs come from being attentive. Attentive to life, attentive to scripture, attentive to your heart. Pay attention!
— Matt Redman
When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.
— Bruce Dickinson
The fact that I have a lot of songs written doesn't keep me from wanting to write new ones, or new ones from coming.
— Christopher Owens
I was never just a 'fill in 16 bars on a beat' rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.
— Mac Miller
The reality is that the shows kind of disconnect from the songs a little bit. You're playing the songs, but they take on a life of their own.
— Craig Finn
Songs from the wood make you feel much better.
— Jethro Tull
I always sing them as though they are autobiographical, even if they're not, and most of my songs do come from something about me.
— Ronee Blakley
All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent.
— Ann Wilson
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
Songs of worship arise from a life of worship.
— Tim Hughes
I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.
— Peter Steele
I'm a children's book writer, and my wife is a musician. We've raised a family on income from songs, performances and books.
— Peter Lerangis
From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth, justice, and a better American Way.
— Shawn Amos
I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.
— Reeve Carney
Some genius of the South
With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth,
Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds. — Jean Toomer
With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth,
Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds. — Jean Toomer
Whitney Houston, one of my biggest inspirations, also had that same mindset because her songs vary from R&B, hip hop, pop, and gospel.
— Heather Headley
I think my songs are singing to the rural heart. It's not whether you're from a big city or the middle of nowhere in a small town.
— Rodney Atkins
All heroes' news, like something from the songs, but there's nothing like others' successes to make your own failures sting the worse.
— Joe Abercrombie
I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.
— Yael Naim
The kind of stillness of being nothing, and doing things from that emptiness, make one strong.
— Shashi
Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'
— Quincy Jones
Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.
— Arlo Guthrie
I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it gets easier as you go.
— James Mercer
Country music is full of affairs and cheating; that's where all those Hank Williams songs come from.
— Robert Hilburn
Come, let us drink the last raindrop tears from a narcissus cup and fill our souls with the songs of larks.
— Kahlil Gibran
I write songs about real things ... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.
— John Mayall
I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.
— Steve Earle
Music is what feelings sound like out loud. I sing songs that speak from my heart. They tell my story, how I feel.
— Georgia Cates
In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
— Mika.
There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.
— Robert James Waller
Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.
— James Bay
I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.
— Bruno Mars
There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?
— Meshell Ndegeocello
When I collaborated with Nelly Furtado, the idea for the song structure came from myself, but the lyrics and the ideas behind the songs came from her.
— Paul Oakenfold
We're not the kind of band who writes an order abundance of songs and picks from them, we usually write for the album.
— John Petrucci
A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen
— Bob Brookmeyer
I just write songs and hope that they do well. I'm sure there is some pressure from someone at the label, but I'd rather keep away from it.
— Gabrielle Aplin
Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.
— Eminem
My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.
— David Crosby
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
— Becky G
Every time I'm home from tour I try to write some new songs, but it can get really hard trying to keep up with normal life, I always get so behind.
— Tim Lambesis
All my songs are based on melody, which is retrieved from my Jewish heritage. Melody will always exist no matter what the rhythmic changes there are.
— Neil Diamond
You won't hear any more alcohol songs from Snoop Dogg - unless I stumble upon some Hennessy.
— Snoop Dogg
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
Sometimes I write from personal experience, but so much depends on what mood I'm in. If I'm in a good mood, I'll write happier songs.
— Orianthi
From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.
— Tom Araya
All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.
— Laura Marling
The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.
— Stephen Malkmus
It costs $2,500 to purchase a song and I know from experience that I like to score with songs.
— Allan Moyle
I write songs from the point of view I had at a time;I'm not tryingto write songs from a young person's point of view.That only ends in disaster.
— Nick Cave
'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn't ever get from a score.
— Hans Zimmer
The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.
— Henry Rollins
The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.
— Paul Westerberg
Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.
— Frankie Avalon
I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story ... ' and getting to see the crowd's reaction to those songs was unforgettable.
— Blake Shelton
I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.
— Corey Smith
I was in a band at school, and almost from the day we started, I started writing songs, just because that seemed what you did.
— Jamie Lawson
The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.
— Deana Carter
From a young age, I was encouraged to sing, dance and learn folk and popular songs in Spanish.
— Ailyn Perez
I go up to my room to put the finishing touches on Margot's scrapbook and listen to only the slow songs from Dirty Dancing,
— Jenny Han
I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
— Stephen Sondheim
The idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely exciting.
— Danny Elfman
The idea that I could write songs that people wanted to hear came from other people who said they liked what I did.
— Benmont Tench
Make songs for Death as you would sing to Love -But you will not assuage him. He aloneOf all the gods will take no gifts from men.
— Sara Teasdale
I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.
— Danny Boyle
Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan.
— Arlo Guthrie
I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest.
— Antonio Carlos Jobim
From private flood. / Drama of each season / plots doom from above, / yet all allergic reason / moves to our minor love
— Sylvia Plath
My shows are always a mix of songs from all my albums with some rocking covers thrown in for fun.
— Miranda Lambert
With all my songs, I try to pull from personal experiences, like moving and changing locations.
— Shaun Fleming
I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid.
— Sara Bareilles
Your power comes from the songs.
— Ethel Wilson