Nipsey Hussle (Ermias Joseph Asghedom) Quotes

A lot of artists come into the game with a radio record, but they don't establish the fans as fans of their style of music. It's just that they're a fan of that song, and after that song plays out, it's real hard for 'em.

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• 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.
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  • Hate
  • Sad

• I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• I still love radio, but TV is also an awesome platform.

  

  Eddie Trunk
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  • Platform

• I'd sometimes do 50, 60 takes of song.

  

  Dan Hill
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  • Sometimes
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• With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
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• The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
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  • Gratitude

• But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
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• Sweete Themmes runne softly, till I end my Song.

  

  Edmund Spenser
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• She’s a nice girl – I just feel very honoured that she wanted to sing my song. I used to scream for her in Times Square and now I work for her. When I was 13 she was the most provocative performer of my time. I love her so much! Britney certainly doesn’t need any freakin’ tips from me! Britney Spears is the queen of pop. I was learning from her.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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• '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
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• Hollywood has realised that we do have actors and are not just mad about song and dance.

  

  Ali Fazal
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• Everyone wants a love song you can dance to.

  

  Rita Ora
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• Listen to the late Isaac Hayes covering 'Walk on By' by Burt Bacharach or Mayfield singing The Carpenters' vanilla-seeming 'We've Only Just Begun,' and you realize soul's insistence on transformation: Mayfield in particular makes the song not just about love but the start of revolution.

  

  Kevin Young
  • Soul
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  • Singing

• Nashville is the business center. They forget that the bottom line of it all is still the song.

  

  Jerry Jeff Walker
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• In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative.

  

  Lea Salonga
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  • Beginning

• It's good to let go of control. That's probably something all artists and song writers will say at some point.

  

  Jens Lekman
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  • Control

• I can't start my day without hearing 'Waiting On the World to Change' by John Mayer. It's my alarm clock and my favorite song.

  

  Matthew Underwood
  • World
  • Song
  • Waiting

• With rock music, it usually revolves around the band. You go in as a band and probably take about a year to record an album. But for a hip-hop song, you can create a track and an idea with verses and choruses in a day, and get three different people on it. It seems like you're able to do more with hip-hop.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
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• I think what was great with the Cult was that we were allowed to evolve. We made different types of records, which was interesting. You play 'Love' and 'Electric' back to back, and they're really not that similar.

  

  Billy Duffy The Cult
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• Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time.

  

  Eliza Griswold
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  • Projections

• The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Time
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• A lot of artists come into the game with a radio record, but they don't establish the fans as fans of their style of music. It's just that they're a fan of that song, and after that song plays out, it's real hard for 'em.

  

  Nipsey Hussle
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