#song

I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#half #i #lyric #song #step

It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#about #brilliant #build #draw #gift

There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#lot #point #songwriters #steal #terms

Song after Battle: As the young men went by I was looking for him. It surprises me anew That he has gone. It is something To which I cannot be reconciled. Owls hoot at me. Owls hoot at me. That is what I hear In my life. Wolves howl at me. Wolves howl at me. That is what I hear In my life. -American Indian Songs ↗

— Frances Densmore

#haunting #old-songs #simons-rock #death

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song. ↗

— David Antin

#distaste #far #great #had #i

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#again #also #i #just #might

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#i write #job #know #piano #play

After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean? ↗

— Tom Araya

#because #i #i remember #into #just

I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song. ↗

— Tom Araya

#everything #had #heard #i #least

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#good #good song #know #right #song