#song

You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing. ↗

— Johnny Cash

#audience #doing #feel #got #gut

I had all the material for a long time, but I was just too busy. Sometimes we'd sit around at home and sing some of these songs at family things, and everyone always said I should record them. ↗

— June Carter Cash

#around #busy #everyone #family #had

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing. ↗

— Rosanne Cash

#i #impossible #me #really #sing

Sometimes you have trouble because someone 'likes' your music so much. They follow you around for hours singing little bits of the songs, or just freaking out. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

#because #bits #follow #hours #just

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#consciously #dreams #get #hear #i

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife. ↗

— Steven Curtis Chapman

#cheating #good #home #like #make

Motivo Eu canto porque o instante existe e a minha vida está completa. Não sou alegre nem sou triste: sou poeta. Irmão das coisas fugidias, não sinto gozo nem tormento. Atravesso noites e dias no vento. Se desmorono ou se edifico, se permaneço ou me desfaço, — não sei, não sei. Não sei se fico ou passo. Sei que canto. E a canção é tudo. Tem sangue eterno a asa ritmada. E um dia sei que estarei mudo: — mais nada.” — Cecília Meireles ↗

— Cecília Meireles

#poems #songs-cecilia-meireles #motivational

I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can. ↗

— Guy Clark

#another #best #day #feed #folks

There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is. ↗

— Guy Clark

#any #applies #as far as #brought #especially

A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#chosen #friends #himself #interested #milieu