They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.
Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?
The type of music I like to sing is really those classic songs, those Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, classics.
Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.
If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.
I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.
I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called 'Ooh La La,' that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music.
I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.
Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that come from here are uniquely American.
Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end and interact and exchange energy with a live audience.
When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
Every single morning, I have a person sitting right there next to me in prayer with a tape recorder - and a song comes up every day.
I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.
It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth, justice, and a better American Way.
It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.
I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.
I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.
