Ben Lee Quotes
The moments when I first made something, like when I first wrote a song please me so intensely. Everything else after that is just the act of communication.
Ben Lee
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I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.
Mahalia Jackson
There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
Barbara Kruger
As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.
Nate Ruess
Fun.
As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in a room writing a song.
Sam Hunt
Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.
Young Thug
I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.
Felicity Jones
I've always felt that my life's been at the right place at the right time; I feel like there's been some really dull moments, really high moments, really low moments, but it's always felt like everything's moved in the right direction; it always feels great, and everything feels right.
Olly Murs
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
You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.
Dan Pallotta
There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.
Kara DioGuardi
We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted.
Laura San Giacomo
You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that's listening, but they're in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you.
Keinan Abdi Warsame
I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that I'm ever gonna write a song that you will know who it's about.
Ed Sheeran
You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope.
Washed Out
The moments we have behind us, you won't be able to see again. We're only responsible for what we live in right now.
Flavor Flav
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
I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.
Barbara Kruger
There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.
Oriana Fallaci
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
Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't novels. You don't have 30 pages to slowly wrap somebody in. They're more like short stories or poems. If the first line hasn't grabbed them, you won't get to the second line. Once you've developed an audience, you may have some luxury and trust, so you don't have to knock 'em over the head with line one.
Dan Bern
Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator, and disrespect the creation.
Van Jones
It is my request to you, tit for tat is not a solution. Ver ver thi shamtu nathi. Hatred is never won over by hatred.
Narendra Modi
In prosperous times, the marginal workers get by. But in tough times, they get the shaft.
Bill O'Reilly
The moments when I first made something, like when I first wrote a song please me so intensely. Everything else after that is just the act of communication.
Ben Lee
