Christine McVie Quotes

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac

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• You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Think
  • Song
  • Know

• Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Song
  • Proud
  • Regrets

• If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Long
  • Song

• I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Think
  • You
  • Artist

• I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.

  

  M. Ward
  • Different
  • Country
  • Song

• Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Song
  • Space
  • Emotional

• From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Song
  • Moments
  • Learn

• 'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Song
  • Years
  • Popular

• I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

  

  Yael Naim
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • God
  • Song
  • Dream

• That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Different
  • Song
  • You

• If you asked me to sing a modern song, I wouldn't be able to - I can't easily slip into that groove. But if it were a song by Nico or The Velvet Underground, fine.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Song
  • Me
  • Modern

• I try to tell a story musically in a song.

  

  Barry White
  • Song
  • Story
  • Try

• When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
  • School
  • Home

• I made a decision when I started writing 'All is Song' to take the compliments I had for 'The Wilderness' and try to be confident and not overwhelmed by it.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Decision

• Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Song
  • You
  • Like

• I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you've got a style, you're going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• Each song has its own life.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Life
  • Song
  • Own

• There's a bunch of songs that I call B-sides on the record that you could argue could maybe have some potential commercial success with another artist, but for me, they just felt really whack.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • Success
  • Song
  • Artist

• In the pulpit, we're supposed to present the teaching with all of its unvarnished clarity, but when you step out of the pulpit, you have to meet people where they are and try to walk with them.

  

  Donald Wuerl
  • People
  • Present

• The voice stuff is super fun and I get to be anyone, but on-camera, I get to go in with wardrobe and sets and stuff and be in an environment that's not normal, and I love that.

  

  E.G. Daily
  • Fun
  • Environment

• With a standard editorial cartoon, you're taking tons of information and synthesizing it down to a single bite - a single moment in time. With animated editorial cartoons, it's more storytelling.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Time
  • Single
  • Moment

• The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Yourself
  • Fearful
  • Unbelief

• I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Song