#song

I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#come #consider #early #i #i can

My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn't abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#always #band #basically #because #behind

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#free #give #good #i #incentive

Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#cds #collecting #i #like #make

I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times. ↗

— Macklemore

#couple #day #every #every day #great

I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song. ↗

— Macklemore

#consumerism #culture #down #examine #examines

You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing. ↗

— Macklemore

#comfort zone #compelling #different #get #interesting

I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings. ↗

— Joel Madden

#broke #cell #cell phone #how #i

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#band #clear #clear idea #every #how

I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs. ↗

— Howie Mandel

#bobby #how #i #idea #involved