#song

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. ↗

— Dave Mustaine

#british #came #guitar #heavy #heavy metal

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

#eloquent #only #song #story #telling

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'. ↗

— Holly Near

#concert #female #hear #lot #make

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs. ↗

— Holly Near

#comes #concerts #hope #i #see

I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#changes #harp #i #key #play

I have writing songs on my own for about six years. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#i #my own #own #six #songs

Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#did #everything #felt #how #i

To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song. ↗

— Jason Newsted

#first #insight #kind #look #looking

Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound. ↗

— Juice Newton

#chance #example #feel #for example #gave

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#me #new #pretty #singing #songwriting