#song

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#been #i #making #overnight #overnight success

There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than writing about heartbreak and relationships. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#about #being #books #children #day

He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that. ↗

— Alan Lomax

#audiences #country #father #felt #found

I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me. ↗

— Courtney Love

#anybody #going #hurt #i #keeps

I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say. ↗

— Lyle Lovett

#attracted #became #curious #enjoyed #hearing

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression. ↗

— Lyle Lovett

#expression #individual #own #singing #songs

Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music. ↗

— Lyle Lovett

#bob dylan #comes #difference #does #dylan

I made my first complete song when I was 9. ↗

— Ludacris

#first #i #made #song

I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box. ↗

— Ludacris

#beating #box #cans #first #garbage

I'm always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, I'm always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. It's like my job is my vacation. ↗

— Ludacris

#free #free time #gotta #i #job