#song

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. ↗

— Joe Strummer

#i #income #life #live #rains

Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it's a loop or a drum, it's about what suits the song. It's using what's within your reach, but also reaching for everything you can. I don't know if I always get it right, because I don't know every sound yet. ↗

— Beth Orton

#also #always #because #before #drum

The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#beautiful #find #i #idea #movie

At the time I just was like, I can't believe I am on the show, and the first thing I have to do is an entire song and dance routine for the whole cast of 'Mad Men.' ↗

— Jessica Pare

#believe #cast #dance #entire #first

I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them. ↗

— Mandy Patinkin

#i #just #over #people #process

I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody. ↗

— Scott Patterson

#actually #compose #few #few things #finding

Some of the songs are so crazy, the words are so crazy... it's hard to believe I was so crazy. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#crazy #hard #i #some #songs

I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I'm more drawn to the darker, sadder songs. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#bit #darker #drawn #his #i

It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the routine. And there was a point where he just kind of gave up. He couldn't face being 40. And he resorted to stimulants. There's a dark side there, a really dark side. ↗

— Priscilla Presley

#being #career #dark #dark side #down

I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over. ↗

— Alan Price

#cross #i #like #over #quite