Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.
My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.
If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes.
Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.
Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.
The Little Boy and the Old Man Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon." Said the old man, "I do that too." The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants." I do that too," laughed the little old man. Said the little boy, "I often cry." The old ma...
Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done, and fools what they wish to do.
Ruby said there were many songs that you could not say anybody in particular had made by himself. A song went around from fiddler to fiddler and each one added something and took something away so that in time the song became a different thing from w...
Yet the laboriously sought musical epiphany rarely compares to the unsought, even unwanted tune whose ambush is violent and sudden: the song the cab driver was tuned to, the song rumbling from the speaker wedged against the fire-escape railing, the s...
Even the best song becomes tiresome if heard too often.
The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.
Who is old enough to ask, is old enough to know.
Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
In 50 years, I don't think you're gonna look back at 2006 and say, 'The good old days.'
You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face.
A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.
I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.
The old man has his death before his eyes; the young man behind his back.
A song for you A song for me Is how we relate our life to be
