I hope that the next time you go to a concert, the band doesn't play the song you wanna hear! And instead, they just play songs off their new album!.
You can imagine several scenes from Star Wars? The way they looked? For me, that's how music is. Sometimes I'll be developing riffs for songs, just w….
Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol.... If you think of Om only as a sound, a technique or a symbol of the Divine, you will ….
You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every….
The best songs for me come from the search for joy. You're in a negative place maybe, but you're still striving to improve yourself and find happines….
Those people online are analyzing everything both of you do. Andre, every new song you're on gets scrutinized..
I would start off with a lively rag, then would come a ballad, followed by a comedy song and a novelty number, and finally, the hot song. In this way….
I always use familiarity in my music, whether it's in my song writing or whatever..
There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror avail….
I'm mainstream, and I have pretty chart-tastic tastes. I don't often veer away from a big melodic song with big words for big stadiums..
Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the….
Playing two months or more in one city meant new songs all the time. If people paid their dimes to see and hear Sophie Tucker, they didn't want to he….
There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo,….
My songs have always had frustrating themes - relationships I've had.
I try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level..
I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old..
I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve..
I have this idealistic and maybe naive thought that almost any song can be anything. If you record one song today, it would maybe be exciting and coo….
I started making music professionally when I was 14. I did songs on that program GarageBand, and then I'd put demos up on MySpace with my friends..
Jazz stopped being creative in the early '80s. After your acoustic era, where you had the likes of the Miles Davis Quintet, when it gets to the '70s ….
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as ….