#songs

If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now. ↗

— Richard Perle

#children #clever #diplomacy #embrace #entirely

The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in. ↗

— Robert Plant

#developed #exaggeration #i #key #kind

When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that. ↗

— Trevor Rabin

#came #down #feel #fifty #finished

I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music. ↗

— Michael Rapaport

#broad #cable #cars #city #excitement

And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#how #i #knew #proof #religion

I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make? ↗

— Little Richard

#believe #birds #crazy #god #hear

Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music. ↗

— Johnny Rivers

#around #blackwell #bobby #bobby darin #darin

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it. ↗

— Kid Rock

#am #formats #get #going #gonna

To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song. ↗

— Jason Newsted

#first #insight #kind #look #looking

Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound. ↗

— Juice Newton

#chance #example #feel #for example #gave