#song

Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#bob #considered #couple #cover #dylan

I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#beholden #engaged #i #i think #make

If my life were a song it'd be called 'Here I Am' because here I am - I mean, I'm Thia and I'm here to me me, I'm here to express myself musically which I find is the best way to express myself. ↗

— Thia Megia

#because #best #best way #called #express

I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#brought #different #glad #had #hard

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest. ↗

— Barry Mann

#creative #crop #hard #harvest #how

One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song. ↗

— Manfred Mann

#bad performance #being #even #get #good

I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know. ↗

— Teena Marie

#around #blessing #ever #gift #given

The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen. ↗

— Chris Martin

#goal #happen #make #never #perfect

We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#cd #could #couple #everything #get

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air. ↗

— Steve Martin

#bluegrass #get #hard #i #i think