#song

Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music. ↗

— Michael Franti

#against #angry #clap #dance #gaza

There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe. ↗

— David Friedman

#between #i #just #like #me

I swear I will never mention love or death inside a house, And I swear I never will translate myself at all, only to him or her who privately stays with me in the open air. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#death

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself. ↗

— David Friedman

#i #i do #myself #often #realize

I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives. ↗

— David Friedman

#advisor #got #i #kill #letter

I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally. ↗

— David Friedman

#i #i think #move #people #something

I've been doing a lot of studying singing, and I'm thinking of recording an album containing all my old war horses and putting out a songbook at the same time. ↗

— David Friedman

#been #containing #doing #horses #i

Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#because #family #family life #getting #how

So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you're doing something right. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#doing #emotion #freak #kind #much

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.' ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#back #down #drawn #falling #falling in love