It's just kind of, we do a lot of songs when it's an artist of that magnitude, like Beyoncé. You're not sending her one song; you're sending her 20 i….

Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound..

Artists have been getting ripped off since the beginning of time, probably. But on the other hand, it might be nice to write songs. We certainly coul….

Great Spirit, When we face the sunset when we come singing the last song, may it be without shame, singing 'it is finished in beauty, it is fin….

It's so interesting to me how songs take on a shape and body of their own and grow..

Basically, I'm going to take what you did, the bare-bones structure of what you were trying to do, how you were attacking the song, and attack it in ….

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep.

Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the Master: His….

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and….

I'll write for a while and then I'll find an appropriate song and in a weird way the music will keep me in the mood. I find music to define the mood ….

A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are..

A good song is a nice set of chords and some good lyrics; a great song is a song that reinvents itself over time. That you can always find something ….

I don't feel super attached to a certain time when I hear the music. Some of the songs I still play live and, through that I feel like I've been able….

I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear ….

My pacifism came after I joined the army and was shipped over to Korea. There was a little one-room orphanage there called Song-do. There were 180 ba….

I feel like I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and art, so for every song I can see a different kind of video..

I think every singer hears songs that make you want to sing them..

I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day; Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could ….

I say to my students that I can't teach them how to write a good song, but I can teach you how to write a better song. Talking about this idea of it ….

My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them..

For they both were solitary, She on earth and he is heaven. And he wooed her with caressed, Wooed her with his smile of sunshine -Song of Hiawatha, H….