Melissa Manchester Quotes

A Grammy is a wonderful thing; all of a sudden you're given a new audience but, like anything, you have to be able to grow with these songs if you really want a long artistic career.

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• Love is a wonderful thing that one misses.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Love
  • Wonderful
  • Love Is

• My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Song
  • Shoes
  • Fish

• As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Family
  • First
  • Wonderful

• It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. If I start writing a song, and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.

  

  Halsey
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Song

• I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.

  

  Young Thug
  • Song
  • Thought
  • Fast

• I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Time
  • Important
  • Song

• The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Live
  • Song
  • Culture

• We wanted to write a whole song about partying and then taking Yellow Cabs home. That's the weirdest topic we've ever thought of centering a song around.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Home
  • Song
  • Thought

• Once I come up with the concept, the rest of the song just comes.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Up
  • Song
  • Rest

• And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than they've ever been of making sure that every song on a new album is as good as can be.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Good
  • Song
  • Choose

• When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Think
  • Song
  • First

• I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • House
  • Song
  • Friend

• One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Good
  • Song
  • Words

• 'Wuthering Heights' was not your normal type song - but that's why it was so brilliant. It was something out the norm. When something like that comes along, they don’t come along that often. When does the next Kate Bush come along, after Kate Bush? There hasn’t been one.

  

  Elton John
  • Why
  • Song

• If I make a song, and it's my song, like 'Lean On,' we're going to make money off the synchs, the Spotify, and we get to headline festivals on it. That's the model I want to explore.

  

  Diplo
  • Money
  • Song
  • Model

• A lot of my friends are doctors, and the difference between me and them is there's no musical emergencies to pull me away from dinner. 'I need the chords for that song right now!' No, it can wait.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Friends
  • Song

• I like the old days when, if I wrote a song and I recorded it, it didn't mean somebody else couldn't record it.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Song

• People are consuming more than ever, but I think they want a bit of honesty and depth. Adele, Gotye, Janelle Monae - they're giving you a catchy song, but it's also a challenging song at the same time.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • People
  • Time
  • Song

• My God is the green tide in the spring leaves the redness of cherries high in the air the excitement of shooting stars the song of birds in summer branches the sunrise on a winter's morning the name of everything we don't understand.

  

  William of Occam
  • Song
  • Morning
  • Summer

• I just like to have the ideas. Other people can help see them through.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • People
  • Help

• Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Hands
  • Certain
  • Mystery

• A Grammy is a wonderful thing; all of a sudden you're given a new audience but, like anything, you have to be able to grow with these songs if you really want a long artistic career.

  

  Melissa Manchester
  • Song
  • Wonderful
  • Careers