#song

By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape. ↗

— Jay-Z

#been #by the time #first #got #had

We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people. ↗

— Kiri Te Kanawa

#everyday #hearts #life #occasions #our

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#also #character #colors #did #doing

It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#falls #mind #rare #song #very

You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#first time #good #only #out #play

Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. ↗

— Casey Kasem

#getting #interestingly #longer #now #short

Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit. ↗

— Casey Kasum

#audience #beat #became #gets #getting

Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away. ↗

— Andy Kaufman

#away #boring #egotistical #entertainment #hold

I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that helps when it comes to setting up a band for live. Derrick has been with me for donkey's years. ↗

— Jay Kay

#been #comes #could #donkey #every

My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way. ↗

— Jay Kay

#good #got #guitar #hammer #just