#song

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#art #attain #attraction #changing #childish

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. ↗

— Tori Amos

#each #lot #other #songs

It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs. ↗

— Keren Ann

#atmospheres #fiction #i #mixture #moods

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in. ↗

— Keren Ann

#come #distance #enough #jump #need

I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#brother #i #live #made #melodic

It's not a bad problem to have because a lot of classic acts are known for one or two songs and in their show they basically hold those songs off until the end and you sit through an hour or so of lesser known material but in our case most of the songs are well known. ↗

— Gerry Beckley

#bad #basically #because #case #classic

I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way. ↗

— Nuno Bettencourt

#band #could #i #i always #imagine

Obviously the biggest change is that it's me by myself. When you don't have another band interpreting your songs or playing them the way that they have, it's bound to sound different. ↗

— Nuno Bettencourt

#band #biggest #biggest change #bound #change

I've learned this, that haters wanna hate. You could sing a song perfectly, you could write the songs perfectly, and some people are absolutely going to hate you. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#could #going #hate #haters #i

Doubt thou the stars are fire Doubt thou the sun doth move Doubt truth to be a liar But never doubt I love (Quoting Shakespeare) ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#song-lyrics #love