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Related At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar play... JAMES IHA I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percu... JACKIE DESHANNON I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs ab... KAT GRAHAM The songs on my first album were such that I started really high and by the time we reached the chor... JANJI VINCE They're songs I honestly wish I'd written. I had a huge list of songs but wanted to keep the album a... RICK SPRINGFIELD A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like... DARLENE LOVE When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I... CHRIS CORNELL He brought in a great energy and great vibe that had been lacking from our sessions. After he came, ... BUTCH VIG Everything felt more personal this time. I go back to songs we've done in the past and there's just ... NATALIE MAINES In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept w... BENMONT TENCH He told me that when you record a love song, there is no better song for people to relate to. My fir... JOSH TURNER I always see my songs in colors, and I'm often more inspired by movies and photographs than I am... CHARLI XCX When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't ... EDDIE VEDDER I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now ... KATE VOEGELE Perhaps I should go on record now and say that there are no songs on this album that refer in any wa... LISA MARIE PRESLEY [The original 20 songs in his repertoire he hoped to record were whittled down with Sutherland's hel... WILL DANFORTH The instrumentation was a little different. A little more experimental this time. We had saxophone a... ADAM CARROLL I wrote all my songs on my main instruments, and the songs I would record in my bedroom were just ac... SHAMIR These songs have definitely pushed all of our abilities. I felt like we had to find something that w... ALBERT JR These songs have definitely pushed all of our abilities. I felt like we had to find something that w... ALBERT HAMMOND JR I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard. FLEUR EAST Essentially we were a rock band playing rock songs but I was able to bring in some much more unusual... ANDY SUMMERS There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love... FRANK ZAPPA Always singing for the great state, for sure, ... But, you know, you don't want to do a song just be... GEORGE STRAIT I think a lot of my fans are anxious for more than just my singles. They know I'm a dreamer. The... BIG SEAN We recorded over a dozen songs we had just learned the day before. I knew before I went in to record... JOHN CORBETT I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story...' and getting to see the crowd... BLAKE SHELTON I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, maki... TOM LEHRER I kind of miss writing songs the way that I used to write songs, in the sense that I would just sit ... JUSTIN VERNON I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock song... COREY TAYLOR I'm going to be playing four songs, ... and the songs I play, I'm going to play lead guitar on. DAN MORGAN For this album, I was looking for songs that would be fun to play live. I was really focused on that... BRAD PAISLEY I do gravitate towards the sad songs because I find them to be more of a challenge for me from a wri... LUKE COMBS We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of I... JIMMY CARL BLACK In France, the image I had was of a shy girl - a poor lonely girl and not too good-looking. When I w... FRANCOISE HARDY The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely,... MELISSA ETHERIDGE I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what ... PHIL COLLINS 'Let It Die' is more piano-based, organ-based and percussion-based. Live, the songs are more guitar-... LESLIE FEIST I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge... QUENTIN TARANTINO Since there's only room for me to write a few songs on each band album, I really have to use my song... CHRISTINE MCVIE We got a really good idea for how it felt to play the songs for fans ahead of time and we were able ... BRADD SHAPIRO Even writing verses from my first album, there were songs that I didn't use because I just felt ... FLEUR EAST You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play any... WAYNE KRAMER As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We l... WAYNE KRAMER I spent 2010-2012 in Stockholm, trying to figure things out. I caught up on life! At the end of 2012... ERIK HASSLE I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had t... NICHOLSON BAKER It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an i... IAN AXEL I've written more songs than ever before on this record. (There are) maybe 25 songs (that) we've got... GLENN HUGHES I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something lik... DWEEZIL ZAPPA When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four ba... RANDY BACHMAN As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the dru... DARON MALAKIAN My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music together later on in life... JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME There's so much more subtlety to this new recording. There's a subtlety in the playing. There's also... JASON MOLINA The biggest thing to me is that ['Version 2.0'] sounds more like a band and a lot of that has to do ... BUTCH VIG I write most of my songs to beats. I play around on guitar, but not enough to where I can compose my... KEHLANI I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos t... TAYLOR HAWKINS They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that wer... ALICE COOPER Music is also supposed to be fun. On this record, (titled 'III'), I really had the desire again to j... JOE NICHOLS I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've e... MALCOLM WILSON I had deeper, more reflective songs on the first album. BUBBA SPARXXX We call them impact songs, and people buy impact songs. But you just never know what those songs are... JASON ALDEAN I had heard some Elvis songs on the radio. During Christmastime, they'd play 'Blue Christmas... DRAKE MILLIGAN When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wro... BONNIE RAITT I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But someti... LAURA BELL BUNDY Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make n... EMINEM If I were doing a real rock show, slapping the phone book in time to the music, grooving with the so... CASEY KASEM I love nothing more than to perform my songs in front of a live audience. And whatever I'm doing... LUKE BRYAN I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the note... ESTELLE A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs. ACE FREHLEY I don't just want to sing about simplistic things all the time. It's good to have a mix of s... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS We had about 30 songs. I picked some I thought my mom would really like and some I liked. We went in... ALAN JACKSON Many of our students say, 'We wish we had a mentor in high school. We wish we had someone we cou... GERALD CHERTAVIAN My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way. MARC ALMOND Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've writ... DAVID BOWIE And the thing about me is, I have a lot of mellow songs, because they're the easiest for me to w... PRISCILLA AHN I do go back and listen to my songs. I'm biting my fingernails the whole way through, but I do l... ANDRAE CROUCH He asked my girlfriend if we could come over and sing some of the songs that we had written, which w... PHIL HARRIS When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, ... JIM DALE 'Something/Anything?' was kind of a different record, since I'm playing everything mysel... TODD RUNDGREN We've gone further on this album, where we have a Big Band song, kind of a Sinatra-type song; we... ZAC BROWN So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free... PAUL WESTERBERG I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town... BETTY BUCKLEY I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get... IRWIN THOMAS I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get... JACK JONES People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during ... TAYLOR KITSCH As I was born and brought up in Himachal Pradesh, I used to listen to a lot of Hindi songs over radi... MOHIT CHAUHAN The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship... BILLY RAY CYRUS If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my so... JAMES IHA When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started ... MIRANDA COSGROVE I'm very lucky that people are able to say, 'Oh, that's that Moody Blues guy!' I'... JUSTIN HAYWARD I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them. BARRY GIBB We want to have the next record filled up with songs that were performed for people before they were... CHRIS CORNELL I'm hoping to play some of the songs that we didn't get to play on the headline tour we just did. I ... DUSTIN KENSRUE It's a very diverse album. I felt that the songs just absolutely had to be written. They came out ex... BRADD SHAPIRO We started off intending to do a four-song EP with Will, with the idea that they'd all be cover song... DOUG MCCOMBS I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in ho... MOBY I think there's only eight songs on 'Born to Run' - I don't think it's much more... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN It hasn't got the scuzzy rock of the Vaselines, or the more refined scuzzy rock of Eugenius. It come... EUGENE KELLY Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the sam... TOM PETTY I feel that Jane's is really a vibe and a time. It wasn't like we were the Beatles. We didn&... ERIC AVERY
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Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy
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They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
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