Alice Ripley Quotes

If there were a song from 'West Side Story' that I would do, it would be 'Something's Coming,' but in a sense that put it in the right key for me and then do that one.

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• Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

  

  Wayne Coyne
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  • Beginning

• You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.

  

  Yolandi Visser
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  • Song
  • Know

• When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
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  • Spirit
  • Cooperation

• With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.

  

  P. J. Harvey
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  • Action

• We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.

  

  Ian Axel
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  • Why
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• I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• 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
  • Writing
  • True
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• Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Writing
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  • Best

• The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Everyone

• There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Song

• That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Different
  • Song
  • You

• When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.

  

  Flula Borg
  • People
  • Music
  • 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
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  • Thought
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• Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.

  

  Nat Friedman
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  • Nice
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• 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
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  • Inspired

• Honestly, are we ever going to get over 'California Girls' by Katy Perry? I know it's old, but that song - I love that song!

  

  Becky G
  • Song
  • Know
  • Get

• Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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  • You
  • Like

• I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
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  • Dance
  • Feel

• If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
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  • Taken
  • Gold

• I just kinda do what I feel. I never knew what lane I would fill, [or that] I would fill a lane at all. I didn't even really contemplate that far down the road. I just started having fun, and a lot of that came from me seeing Wayne dare to be different, and I started feeling like I can be a multifaceted rapper. I don't have to be a one-dimensional female rapper. Once I put that in perspective, it was like everything just got easier for me, because I no longer wanted to fit in anybody's box... I just wanted to be Nicki.

  

  Nicki Minaj
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  • Fun
  • Feeling

• I always have sort of been someone who has contradictory parts, and I haven't tried to uncomplicate myself. I've sort of let things seem contradictory, and sometimes it really confuses people. I don't know if it's working all the time, but I'd rather do that than try to sell myself as one thing or another.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • People
  • Time

• Producing has empowered me as an artist in a specific way. It's forced a certain kind of maturity.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • Maturity

• If there were a song from 'West Side Story' that I would do, it would be 'Something's Coming,' but in a sense that put it in the right key for me and then do that one.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Song