Nadia Ali
Related STEVIE WONDER KINA GRANNIS Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking ... NOLAN SOTILLO HARUKI MURAKAMI For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA GEORGE R.R. MARTIN JOSH TURNER I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually s... ZEDD Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM KEITH SWEAT TRISHA YEARWOOD ADELE I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the st... ENYA The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship... BILLY RAY CYRUS VOLTAIRE I can write a song about my hero Che Guevara and call it 'Song for Che.' CHARLIE HADEN You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody. DENNIS BROWN BJORK YUNA You are a song I could listen to over and over again although I'm convinced it had played in my head... NICOLA AN ARTHUR MILLER When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she ask... NEIL JACKSON Every song is different. Every song comes in a different way. Some songs will come in a day and some... JENNY PHILLIPS I remember writing lyrics for 'Take Me to Church' for a long time before I even had a song i... HOZIER I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to othe... BONNIE MCKEE Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?&#... RAELYNN CRAIG GROESCHEL LORETTA LYNN J. COLE EMINEM GEORGE R.R. MARTIN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN IKE TURNER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN DAVID BOWIE He walked over to the piano and lifted the cover revealing black and white keys that my fingers knew... ALEXANDRIA RHODES CHARLIE PUTH Now listen for your song. Everybody’s got a song. When I used to chase the Trane— John Coltrane ... DAVID MUTTI CLARK PETER TOWNSEND I just wrote the song sitting in my car waiting for my girlfriend. That's about it, man. You will kn... DARON MALAKIAN I am a black woman/ the music of my song/ some sweet arpeggio of tears/ is written in a minor key/ a... MARI EVANS I like 'Goodbye My Lover' because it's a really personal song and I recorded it in my la... JAMES BLUNT Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimati... GLEN HANSARD KAPIL SIBAL What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You... BJORN ULVAEUS RAY CHARLES LUKE BRYAN PAUL MCCARTNEY GWEN STEFANI I think I have a hard time expressing myself in my relationships. I use songs to tell people how I&#... JENNY LEWIS I kind of miss writing songs the way that I used to write songs, in the sense that I would just sit ... JUSTIN VERNON When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was... TOM GLAZER I do gravitate towards the sad songs because I find them to be more of a challenge for me from a wri... LUKE COMBS DAV PILKEY I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name w... BRUCE COCKBURN RAY CHARLES A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for i... ROGER WATERS DOLLY PARTON You know how it is when you first start out. You have to pay your dues, and he was looking for write... AJ CASE But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and n... GLENN DANZIG RICKY MARTIN There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state. STEPHAN JENKINS Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I ... NATALIE MORALES BEBE REXHA C. JOYBELL C. MELISSA ETHERIDGE MICHAEL JACKSON GEORGE R.R. MARTIN CARRIE BROWNSTEIN The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countrie... JONATHAN COE Have children in the home suggest songs from school. Hold a contest for the happiest song, the best ... JAMES ELLIOTT A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. READERS DIGEST A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails PIONEER GIRLS LEADERS' HANDBOOK A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. DONNA ROBERTS DYLAN MORAN If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself... JUDY COLLINS 'Cover Me.' 'Take Time To Know Her.' 'Warm and Tender Love.' 'Out Of Lef... PERCY SLEDGE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS STEVIE NICKS The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song. BEN FOLDS CONOR OBERST HALSEY My life is a series of things that just happen. HAROLD RUSSELL My life is a mosaic, and there's no room in between pieces at all. MARCIA CLARK Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel ... KAT EDMONSON This is my story, this is my song, praising my Saviour all the day long. JEROME HINES FANNY CROSBY LAUREN MYRACLE The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song... GENE CLARK ALANIS MORISSETTE DELTA GOODREM I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of... KATE VOEGELE I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are s... CHARLES KING JESSIE WARE
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I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playin... NADIA ALI I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you l... NADIA ALI I believe the most attractive thing about a guy is his personality and the way he views the world. I... NADIA ALI The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it ... NADIA ALI I love the Middle East and have been lucky enough to visit a few of the countries like Egypt, Lebano... NADIA ALI As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am. NADIA ALI I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down. NADIA ALI I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights b... NADIA ALI I think being an Asian woman has been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. It helps me stand ou... NADIA ALI Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance... NADIA ALI I think I've always wanted to be different from everybody else. I get really annoyed when I do s... NADIA ALI Some people tell me it doesn't make any difference -- a green-card holder is the same as a citizen. ... ALI ALI I hate to be waiting all my life. Just tell me. 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NADIA BJORLIN My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do. NADIA BJORLIN Showbiz can be cruel. NADIA BJORLIN I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each ot... NADIA BJORLIN My family understands the pain of struggling with a loved one who's suffering from a blood-relat... NADIA BJORLIN NADIA BOULANGER NADIA BOULANGER NADIA BOULANGER NADIA BOULANGER NADIA BOULANGER IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES. NADIA SAHARI NADIA COMANECI NADIA BOULANGER NADIA COMANECI NADIA BOULANGER NADIA COMANECI NADIA COMANECI NADIA COMANECI NADIA COMANECI NADIA COMANECI NADIA GIOSIA My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies. NADIA MCCAFFREY NADIA COMANECI NADIA COMANECI NADIA BOULANGER NADIA COMANECI Nothing's ever simple. I just don't want you to ignore possibilities out of fear. Sometimes you have... NADIA LEE NADIA BOULANGER Fiction, if done right, can bridge cultural divides. Stories can be a footpath for a reader to step ... NADIA HASHIMI NADIA COMANECI NADIA COMANECI NADIA COMANECI NADIA BOULANGER NADIA BOULANGER NADIA BOULANGER I knew it would be tough, especially because Patty is playing in great form, ... But I beat her two ... NADIA PETROVA I'm very happy, it was a good mental win. When I went on today, I was certain about my arm and was n... NADIA PETROVA Little distractions were quite annoying. I can almost tell you the phone number she was giving on th... NADIA PETROVA We had break points, we had really bad points. We had a lot of unforced errors. It was a very tough ... NADIA PETROVA When she came back, NADIA PETROVA I had everything in my hands. I had 40-15 up. I felt if I could get the game, I would win the match. NADIA PETROVA NADIA COMANECI NADIA COMANECI NADIA COMANECI This was the point, when I got really nervous, ... Being so close to my first title made my legs dis... NADIA PETROVA NADIA COMANECI Even righteousness is an ambiguous thing. NADIA HASHIMI The heart knows the immensity it wants to achieve, but it is limited. NADIA SCRIEVA NADIA BOULANGER NADIA BOULANGER Love does not have gender. Love is not exclusive! Our hearts have the capacity to love so many peopl... NADIA SCRIEVA NADIA COMANECI NADIA COMANECI Victory is always bittersweet. NADIA SCRIEVA NADIA COMANECI Usually in a parade you have a grand marshal. Well, we don't just have one grand marshal, we have th... NADIA SKERTICH It's really hard with this weather. You just do whatever you need to. Unfortunately, with the wind y... NADIA PETROVA It was extremely hot out there today and very hard to recover after long points, ... I was feeling l... NADIA PETROVA Sybille played great tennis today. But I am happy that I won and went through to the semis, ... I wa... NADIA PETROVA I just tried to ignore him completely. I didn't look at his side once. NADIA PETROVA I do have a couple of people. I have someone in Germany that I like to try out. I heard good things ... NADIA PETROVA NADIA COMANECI NADIA COMANECI NADIA COMANECI NADIA COMANECI Definitely it's going to be very exciting and I'm very happy I've played lots of matches on clay so ... NADIA PETROVA NADIA COMANECI Elle avait un don, une aptitude particulière pour vous donner à voir ce qui vous avait échappé, ... NADIA HASHIMI Kematian, adalah peristiwa tercepat, yang menjadikan segala tinggal sejarah. ASMA NADIA Perempuan, Kau pasti tahu sakitnya cinta yg tak terkatakan.Cinta yg hanya mampu didekap dlm bungkam,... ASMA NADIA Di setiap udara yang kau temukan, Di sana akan kau jumpai Allah yang senantiasa mendengar doamu ASMA NADIA Allah, bersama-Mu tak ada jalan buntu ASMA NADIA Don’t you dare come into my world and tell me what color the ocean is! It’s black. Black as midn... 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I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writi... 
If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my gui... 
I learned there were lots of realities in the world. 
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... 
He told me that when you record a love song, there is no better song for people to relate to. My fir... 
They're about situations I've gone through being in a relationship. You won't hear me write a song a... 
That song is personal only in that it's about home, ... I really wanted to find a song about Georgia... 
The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why th... 
My life is a struggle. 
For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the ti... 
Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or m... 
It is a lie. 
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. 
When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings. 
Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on ... 
Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next t... 
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... 
Hodor," said Hodor. 
I used to write songs so fast like this, like snapping my fingers. Some of them didn't even have a t... 
My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident. 
I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I woul... 
I was carrying my friend in his casket to put him in the hearse, and I was thinking, 'I need to ... 
Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and t... 
My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song. 
My version of "Georgia" became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It reall... 
When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there... 
One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowh... 
I was ... writing that song (with) tears streaming down my face. To me it's…a snapshot of (a) time... 
Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last. 
My version of 'Georgia' became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. ... 
Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usua... 
My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, ... 
My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotag... 
I write all of my songs from scratch, so the one thing I love about EDM is the way a song transforms... 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song. 
Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your ... 
It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of communit... 
And I'm not saying it's a bad song, you know, or anything like that. All I'm saying is that if you g... 
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrot... 
To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy ... 
I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare... 
This is my story, this is my Song,/ Praising my Savior, all the day long. 
Mother Superior jump the gun...
In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is reall... 
Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I&... 
If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for... 
Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time ... 
I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a... 
You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchsti... 
I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon. 
Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic,... 
I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true. 
Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of ... 
Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpi... 
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty. 
I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make. 
I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to. 
All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close... 