#song

I feel like when I'm on stage, when I'm writing songs, singing songs, I'm in the studio, I'm shooting videos, I kind of get to become this character, and I can make that whatever I want to make that. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#character #feel #get #i #i can

I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff, but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that we don't need all the bells and whistles either. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#artist #because #bells #bells and whistles #big

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#form #i #make #minutes #movie

I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights. ↗

— Jules Shear

#equal rights #give #i #kind #rights

When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#come #continue #euphoric #gets #hook

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics. ↗

— Jim Capaldi

#lyrics #picked #point #reins #song

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#front #give #give me #grandfather #him

But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#because #complete #completely #dark #gets

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#killer #mozart #now #rock #song

Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now. ↗

— John Zorn

#city #concentrate #got #group #hardcore