Brandi Carlile
Related PSY A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert ... ADAM LAMBERT My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John. KYLE DUNNIGAN CAMILA CABELLO I think my favorite thing is songwriting. CARLOS PONCE PSY JON SECADA JONI MITCHELL I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen. IAN AXEL DAVE GROHL Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so ... KAREN O GEORGE HARRISON I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewher... JON SKOVRON Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But i... LIONEL RICHIE The New Kids took some hits for, you know, not writing their own music. But on a songwriting standpo... JOEY MCINTYRE DOLLY PARTON JASON MRAZ I've been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jim... STEVEN ADLER You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My in... GRIMES BEBE REXHA My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace. GILBERT HERNANDEZ JASON MRAZ HALSTON SAGE In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings abou... FRANK AUERBACH I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses in... ADAM KLUGER NATALIE IMBRUGLIA DAVE MUSTAINE I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?&... AARON SCHOCK TEDDY THOMPSON Lennon was such a great writer and exactingly honest. That was the thing that was defining about his... TIM RICE-OXLEY I’ve always thought the best songs come though us not from us…. They gave me life, they gave me ... CAROLE BAYER SAGER FREDDIE MERCURY I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to ... LEE ANN WOMACK Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then y... JULIANA HATFIELD One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking ab... RICKY WILLIAMS Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting. MANIKA I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff. AZIZ ANSARI Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective. ADAM RICH STEVEN TYLER FREDDIE MERCURY FREDDIE MERCURY ED SHEERAN I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timb... HAILEE STEINFELD FERGIE GWEN STEFANI CAMILA CABELLO It's just totally organic ... It's the essence of rock 'n' roll, ... It's got more to do with the so... HUGH DILLON Classic rock, psychedelic rock - I like to dig up old music and see what I can get influenced by. DIPLO NICK HORNBY JIMMY BUFFETT Some stories are meant to be told. JOSELLE ANNE GAYANES 〔오산역마사지〕 аbам18.net 아찔한밤 신도림마사지〔독산동마사지〕〔오... 〔오산역마사지〕 аBам18.NET 아찔한밤 신도림마사지〔독산동마사지〕 KAZUO ISHIGURO My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean. LARRY BISHOP That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression. GEDDY LEE MIKE DIRNT We're all - especially myself - influenced by old-school music, but we all listen to some new-school... ALAN EVANS Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my fa... KIRK FERENTZ DAVID BYRNE When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in son... DAN AUERBACH J. D. SOUTHER I'm afraid there'll be trucks and stuff sitting outside. My biggest concern is traffic. I remember w... RICHARD KERR KAZUO ISHIGURO I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwrit... J. TILLMAN I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwr... BRUCE COCKBURN STING YOKO ONO TOM STOPPARD NICK RHODES NICK RHODES JAMES TAYLOR We influence singing but never really songwriting. CHARLES KING PAT METHENY SUZI QUATRO GLORIA ESTEFAN PARKER POSEY The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid. STEWART STAFFORD My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of ... DUSTIN LYNCH BRITTANY HOWARD One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist. ELLE VARNER GARY KEMP There are a lot of influences from different countries in my music. For example, I chose the guitar ... PAULINA RUBIO I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriti... VANESSA BROWN SEVERO OCHOA Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure t... ROBBIE WILLIAMS I grew up with 'best-of' cassettes. My first Smiths record was 'Hatful Of Hollow,' a... BRANDON FLOWERS Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability. BARRY MANN I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising. JULIAN CASABLANCAS DARREN ARONOFSKY I've been hugely inspired by the songwriting of Lauryn Hill and Tracy Chapman - on their albums,... REBECCA FERGUSON For my whole career, I've been a singer-slash-songwriter, even though I'm very thankfully kn... JENNIFER NETTLES I have never been in a serious relationship and never had a break-up, so I can't tug on my heart... ELLA HENDERSON Those in power write the history, while those who suffer write the songs. FRANK HARTE GN'R was five guys who were all into different things. I liked pop and disco, Izzy was into New ... STEVEN ADLER CHRIS CORNELL I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting. NEIL INNES I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me. MANIKA Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music. ALEXIS KORNER COREY TAYLOR Music is my life. ROBERT ILER
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My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro. BRANDI CARLILE You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming o... BRANDI CARLILE I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren't sitting well in a record, I'll... BRANDI CARLILE When I turned 30, I started to feel all those miles. At times, you want to turn the faucet off a bit... BRANDI CARLILE I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl&... BRANDI CARLILE 'Hallelujah' is going to be a standard that our grandkids, our great-great grandkids will le... BRANDI CARLILE I grew up in a single-wide, three-bedroom mobile home with my family. And now I see them, like, half... BRANDI CARLILE Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that... BRANDI CARLILE It's really important to me to promote worthy causes. But not in a heavy, obligatory, responsibi... BRANDI CARLILE Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the comple... BRANDI CARLILE My wife even thinks our next album should be recorded in our house, and we should move all the furni... BRANDI CARLILE I had actually hurt my neck, and because I went a while without getting it taken care of - it was pu... AUSTIN CARLILE It's disheartening to read the really negative stuff, but at the same time, I know who I am, and... AUSTIN CARLILE That's Trevor 'The Waterfall' Hall. He's the full package. He's the full meal deal. ... It may look ... DAVE CARLILE Linkin Park has been a band for such a long time, for me, in my eyes. I was 16 years old when I firs... AUSTIN CARLILE A girl doesn't want to look like her bag has love handles. You want your bag to be as sleek and sexy... ALI CARLILE I don't think there's a lawyer alive and working who's ever appeared in any part of a treason case a... LORD CARLILE He's got just great technique, and he stays in great position. He's got a heart about the size of Te... DAVE CARLILE The bigger the match, the bigger the Anthony. DAVE CARLILE This was our goal all year long. These kids did a great job to step up and believe in themselves. DAVE CARLILE They really stepped up to the challenge tonight. They wrestled for each other. DAVE CARLILE We're having a good tournament. Our goal was to score 50 points [Friday] and break 100 points [today... DAVE CARLILE We're trying to wrestle the toughest competition we can find. DAVE CARLILE This will make us hungry. DAVE CARLILE We've been going there for 13 years, and this was probably the toughest competition that we've seen ... DAVE CARLILE Those guys are religious followers. That's a great place to go to improve your skills and get some g... DAVE CARLILE I'm not going to be like a rapper and mention the people I'm talking about in my songs by na... AUSTIN CARLILE I'm actually at home when I'm not on tour, and I have a lot of downtime. AUSTIN CARLILE If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of makin... AUSTIN CARLILE The 'rock world' is a lot smaller than it used to be. It's doing a lot less things than ... AUSTIN CARLILE Further suicide bombings in the UK must be expected, and the targets are unpredictable. LORD CARLILE Given that there is the control order system in existence, it would be preferable for that system to... LORD CARLILE ID cards could be of some value in the fight against terrorism but they are probably of quite limite... LORD CARLILE A more searching system is required to reflect the seriousness of the state holding someone in high-... LORD CARLILE I don't myself think that increasing it to 28 days is going to make a very significant amount of dif... LORD CARLILE I think a much tighter system of control is required, though I do think that fairly lengthy detentio... LORD CARLILE On the evidence I have seen and heard, I believe that the security situation in Northern Ireland and... LORD CARLILE Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. BRANDI SNYDER Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. BRANDI SNYDER Hey!” The male voice sliced through the noise. Terri ignored him, determined to get back to the ba... BRANDI SALAZAR BRANDI CHASTAIN BRANDI CHASTAIN I furrowed my brows at him. What was so amazing about a stick? I could pick one up outside on the wa... BRANDI SALAZAR There were still times I was nervous. Throughout the year there were times where you could see that ... BRANDI MUIRHEAD She has no fear of anything. I could picture her skydiving, I could picture her doing anything. She ... BRANDI MUIRHEAD In the second half, she couldn't find her shot very well. No one else stepped up to help her score. 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My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen. His songwriting skills, I cannot even a... 
I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity. 
My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen. 
Oh, yeah, I've always thought of covering some of my influences like Billy Joel, Elton John, Ste... 
My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to ... 
My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener. 
I'm sitting here doing nothing but ageing while my guitar gently weeps 
Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see... 
My strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I de... 
I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record de... 
John Mayer and Jack Johnson are two of my all-time favorites. I love Colbie Caillat and really cool,... 
Isolation is a big part of songwriting. 
The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. 
Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart a... 
It's not a concert you are seeing, it's a fashion show. 
Songwriting is a bitch. And then it has puppies 
Oh, I was not made for heaven. No, I don't want to go to heaven. Hell is much better. Think of all t... 
My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies,
As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people'... 
There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bac... 
My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've be... 
The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long tim... 
Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a reco... 
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener. 
I went through my purple-prose phase in my songwriting... I was really writing between the lines. An... 
When I was a kid, my influences were just my early friends' punk rock bands and listening to the rad... 
Music written by teams makes the authorship of a piece indistinct. Could it be that when hearing a s... 
Think back to the early rock n' roll records, and the average record length in the '50s - an... 
My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also... 
It's great to receive a songwriting award in front of other songwriters, 
This shows the timelessness of John's prophetic, visionary songwriting. 
I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band. 
Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk ro... 
Style has always been very important to us, ... We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk ro... 
Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I... 
If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burt... 
I never, ever saw myself as glam because I didn't wear makeup... my image is a plain leather jum... 
My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wo... 
I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing. 
Freddie Mercury inspired me when I was young. 
Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone&... 
Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I ... 
I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big i... 
'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to song... 
My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they we... 
You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it&#... 
My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia an... 
And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself. 
Unapologetically smitten with thunderstorms...the thought of rough sex beneath an acid washed moon a... 
No matter what the industry you choose to ultimately invest all your time and energy in, be sure you... 
Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find y... 