Haruki Murakami Quotes
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage.
Haruki Murakami
Quotes to Explore
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When I first start writing a song, I usually write the title first, then the song, and I'll sing the song in my head and think of a visual of the song. If I can't think of a visual behind the song, I'll throw the song away.
La'Porsha Renae
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I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching - great entertainment; you know, Judy Garland and all these musicals that bring song and dance and acting all together in a polished way.
Tammy Blanchard
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If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
Barry Mann
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Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.
Sade Adu
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When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt like a punk song. I mean it's ridiculous to say that now, but it had that kind of, like, piercing straight melody. And then this fist-pumping ending, you know that pa-dap-pada.
Feist
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Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.
Larry King
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He was my North, my South, my East and West,My working week and my Sunday rest,My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.
W. H. Auden
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You're not supposed to say the word 'cancer' in a song.And tellin' folks Jesus is the answer can rub 'em wrong.It ain't hip to sing about tractors, trucks, little towns, and mama, yeah that might be true.But this is country music and we do.
Brad Paisley
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When I picked up guitar, it wasn't like, 'OK, I'm going to be Kenny Chesney.' It was like, 'I want to play a chord,' and then it was like, 'I want to play another one, then play a song, then sing while playing the song.'
Luke Combs
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I wanted to write a song called '#1234' that would act as a homage to The Ramones.
Kevin Morby
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'Wild Horses' is my favourite Stones song. It's so beautiful. I don't mind that it was written for Bianca.
Jerry Hall
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I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.
Kina Grannis
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When you raise your voice in song to express what's going on deep inside of you, I think people just react to that because it's so truthful. It's so raw.
Jane Lynch
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When I did 'Wichita Lineman,' it was as good as I could do it, so I keep doing it that way. It's such a haunting song.
Glen Campbell
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'Shooting Star' started out as the arrangement on the record, and it's developed into a real audience-participation song, just from playing it.
Paul Rodgers
Bad Company
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I don't think any of us felt like, "Oh, we need to put joke songs on the record." If we found something funny, we would record it, and if we wanted to, we'd put it on the record. It's not really something we spent too much time agonizing over.
Mark Hoppus
Blink-182
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I love taking you inside a world that you're not apart of and showing how actually works.
Jerry Bruckheimer
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If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage.
Haruki Murakami
