#song

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#close #eyes #feel #i #i can

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#check #christmas #feeling #locate #me

If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year. ↗

— Randy Jackson

#each #every #five #look #may

My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it. ↗

— Wyclef Jean

#change #i #never #one thing #really

I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane. ↗

— Kelly Jones

#hits #hotel #hotel room #i #i write

I heard the Bloc Party record Japan before it came out in the UK as they are on the V2 record label. I think it has a great vibe and has great songs. I also think the Kings of Leon are right up my street. ↗

— Kelly Jones

#before #bloc #came #great #heard

The story behind every song is individual to itself. ↗

— Kelly Jones

#every #individual #itself #song #story

Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song. ↗

— Kelly Jones

#because #changing #easier #edit #entire

A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake. ↗

— Norah Jones

#brain #going #keep #keep going #me

There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song. ↗

— Norah Jones

#go #good #good song #into #lot