Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men
Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.
My words itch at your ears till you understand them
No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.
For your learning disability pleasure, I’ll be playing a song backwards.
All people are musicians" Wit countered. "The question is whether or not they share their songs.
I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I'm sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album live on stage and make people believe in the songs.
My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.
What's really fun is seeing mothers bringing their daughters to the shows. And the best part is the mothers know they don't have to worry about sexual innuendo in the songs. The shows are family shows.
No one understands now. Those who could hear a song this deeply vanished long ago.
I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.
I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.
Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.
I find the songs and dances in Hindi films fascinating, and I know I will do justice to them, as I am a trained dancer.
it is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing.
I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes.
Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.
Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.
When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.
let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its law.
