Mike Gordon Quotes

I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful.

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• You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'

  

  RaeLynn
  • Good
  • God
  • True

• There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

  

  Beck
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Song

• We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Country
  • Song
  • Girl

• There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Song

• A woman can never have enough shoes.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Woman
  • Enough
  • Shoes

• For a movie, you have to make sure the lyrics are consistent with the rhythm that is given to you. But, at times, during the song's recording, you find out that your words are not appropriate for the track, and so you have to change them.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Movie
  • Song
  • Words

• 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
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Start

• 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

• Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Song
  • Journey
  • End

• The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed in the Mojave desert. It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Song
  • Inspired

• Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Taken
  • Enough
  • Easy

• Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Great
  • Music
  • Home

• In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Song
  • Garden

• I always believed a singer should be able to sing any kind of song. If I wanted to sing a Cole Porter song, I should be able to do that. Or 'Sherry,' I should be able to do that. Or a Dylan song.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Song

• I didn't know how to play guitar until I was 21, but from the moment I was good enough on guitar to even put one song together, I kind of billed myself as an artist.

  

  Luke Combs
  • Good
  • Together
  • Song

• I think 12 songs is too much to listen to all at once. When I buy a record, I get to the fifth song, and then I don't get to really hear the rest of the record.

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • Song
  • Rest

• 'Marvin Gaye' came about my first day in L.A. It was kind of crazy that that's my first song that I wrote and it blew up that much. What's crazy is the next day I wrote 'See You Again,' so that's pretty interesting. I was trying to prove myself as a songwriter.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• I've always had a teenage thread running through my music. On my first album, I had a song called 'Confessions of a Teenage Girl.' It's about using your feminine wealth to get what you want.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Music
  • Song
  • Girl

• You look at a song like 'Lightning Crashes,' and it's just so universal.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Song

• My duty moves along with my song: I am I am not: that is my destiny. I exist not if I do not attend to the pain of those who suffer: they are my pains. For I cannot be without existing for all, for all who are silent and oppressed, I come from the people and I sing for them: my poetry is song and punnishment.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • People
  • Song
  • Pain

• Actually it was not really a very special feeling, but surely we’ve been kind of proud of being in the business for such a long time, but that is what we always wanted to do. And I think there is nothing better to live your dreams, even if they are bad some times. But I think that keeps you going. To say it with a song title from the Double X album…"But We Still Rock"!

  

  Claus Lessmann Bonfire
  • Live
  • Song
  • Proud

• I am constantly swimming on the margin, neither 100% American, French, nor Lebanese. I am none of those. I am the result of those three. Sometimes it's an asset: no one can put you in a category. That I do not make typical Lebanese, European or American films does not bother me.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • American
  • Films
  • European

• I think the most pressing issue in our community is probably a generational divide.

  

  Bernice King
  • Community

• I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful.

  

  Mike Gordon
  • Song
  • Enough
  • Able