Trisha Yearwood Quotes
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I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.
Mahalia Jackson -
When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.
Madi Diaz -
I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.
Damien Hirst -
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 -
I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
M. Ward -
Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.
Camille Paglia
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We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.
Madison Marlow -
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 -
Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
RaeLynn -
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 -
From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
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
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Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.
Taylor Momsen -
I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
Yael Naim -
If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
Barry Mann -
It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. If I start writing a song, and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.
Halsey -
Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.
Flavor Flav -
I try to tell a story musically in a song.
Barry White
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I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.
John Joseph Lydon -
Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.
Fred Saberhagen -
Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.
Edith Piaf -
I have never thought of my life as being an enigma.
Chelsea Clinton -
If you record a song that you love, then you're going to win.
Trisha Yearwood