#song

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world. ↗

— Lotte Lehmann

#his #music #over #path #poet

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#exactly #figure #first #full-time #full-time job

I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#bush #figure #george #george bush #george w

Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#berlin #blues #greatest #him #his

Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.' ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#attracted #bass #became #being #bought

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#dream #film #i #into #life

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#different #different parts #i #like #lots

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding. ↗

— John Lennon

#answers #believe #claimed #claiming #divinity

For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#day #every #every day #i #inspiration

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#craft #dream #got #just #kind