I like mash-ups, taking contemporary songs and making them old... old songs, making them new.
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I don't live in the past or focus on making new songs sound like my old stuff; it would be stupi...
JUICY J Part of doing mash-ups is getting the legal rights to use the songs. If you're going to do a mas...
HARVEY MASON, JR. But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Bea...
ROGER MCGUINN It's fun. I like singing and making up my own songs about stuff.
ANTHONY EVANS I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
BARRY GIBB Christmas music works. When we hear the old songs it puts us in the mood. It's all about making peop...
GEORGEANNE BENDER Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.
CANDICE OLSON When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto fo...
M. WARD A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.
J. COLE I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, maki...
TOM LEHRER I cannot sing the old songs now! / It is not that I deem them low; / 'Tis that I can't remember how ...
C. S. CALVERLEY I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember ...
CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY We have seen so much good happen around us that we felt it was time to celebrate by choosing old, fa...
ALBERT MAZIBUKO I can not sing the old songs now!
It is not that I deem them low,
'Tis that I can't remember h...
CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Nobody really knows how old our recipes are. But we're constantly making new variations on them, usi...
CHRISTER Ă–GREN Perhaps I should go on record now and say that there are no songs on this album that refer in any wa...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY If I go back to when I was 18 years old, here was this group writing songs and playing rock 'n' roll...
CURTIS REMINGTON I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue som...
CHANEL IMAN I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,
CHARLOTTE BARNARD I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,.
CHARLOTTE BARNARD I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules an...
FAYE DUNAWAY I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.
OLIVIA D'ABO I have no problems playing (Men at Work) songs, ... But it would be a little bit sad, in a sense, if...
COLIN HAY Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and...
TOM WAITS I was just taking my sketchbook to Kinko's and making photocopies and hand-assembling them - fol...
ADRIAN TOMINE Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make n...
EMINEM One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to...
ANDREW FLETCHER I was raised on songs of poetry like Simon and Garfunkel and Cat Stevens and Neil Young, etc. I love...
JESSICA STEEN I downloaded ProTools - legally, of course... and I wanted to impress girls by making remixes of son...
CHARLIE PUTH I've always loved the songs of the sea. I was first introduced to them back in 1957, at the Old ...
ROGER MCGUINN Holding on to old memories, will keep you from making new ones.
SCOTTIE SOMERS I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equ...
JOHN FOGERTY I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man ...
TOM WAITS And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh.
PAUL MERTON My old songs used to take place in Gothenburg; then, when I lived in Melbourne, the songs just natur...
JENS LEKMAN People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don&...
BILLY CORGAN I still love to do the old songs. I know some people don't.
BONNIE TYLER We had a good time playing the old songs and hanging out again.
AJ HANSON The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.
SHERWOOD ANDERSON Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floo...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON Studying texts and stiff meditation can make you lose your Original Mind.
A solitary tune by a ...
IKKYU In the cherry blossom's shade
there's no such thing
as a stranger.
KOBAYASHI ISSA Great songs are gone; unsung songs remain. Who will sing them?
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We're pretty much taking all the songs that have worked the best in the past and we're using those a...
NIKOLAI FRAITURE Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and y...
SCOTT WEILAND We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.
EDGAR WINTER I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. ...
KYLE DUNNIGAN When I'm making songs, I never call them hits. I knew 'Bandz A Make Her Dance' was a goo...
JUICY J A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like...
DARLENE LOVE It has always been my dream to take my turn at the most respected concert hall in the world. As enor...
LEA SALONGA No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance.
FRED SCHNEIDER Honestly, I don't purposely write dirty songs. To me none of them are dirty; they're all really swee...
CHANTAL CLARET I cannot sing the old songs
Though well I know the tune,
Familiar as a cradle-song
With ...
ROBERT JONES BURDETTE I was subjected to everything German as a young lad growing up, like traditional songs and talk of t...
GEORGE ROCKWELL I don't want to be 35 years old and still popping out songs in miniskirts and la-la-la.
HOLLY VALANCE These aren't my songs. My intention wasn't to make them Martina McBride songs.
MARTINA MCBRIDE It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 son...
YOLANDI VISSER Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in ...
JAY-Z This is why improvisational music and comedy is so inspiring: You are seeing something being born, a...
JOHN DARNIELLE For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like...
MARC ALMOND With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.
KATY PERRY For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I ...
MARC ALMOND Making playlists can kill a whole afternoon for me. I like building very specific playlists for new ...
JONATHAN MABERRY My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hat...
JAKOB DYLAN I just try to keep making good records, try to write songs the best way I can and take my job seriou...
JASON ISBELL But when Brian committed them to the picture and he said that they would provide new songs, they sai...
GEORGE MARTIN All these songs honestly explore the ups and downs of my reality.
ADAM LAMBERT I started making puppets and sets when I was 9 years old.
JAMES RACIOPPI Lend me thy pen
To write a word
In the moonlight.
Pierrot, my friend!
My candle'...
FOLK SONGS We're going to do some old traditional folk songs. We haven't completely set up a list. We'll play s...
JIM ANGELL So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs t...
BILLY BRAGG Beethoven was probably better known as an improviser until people started paying attention to his sy...
CHRISTOPHER O'RILEY I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to...
ROBERT WYATT We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a f...
EDIE BRICKELL When I m old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs...
LLOYD GEORGE We happened to start writing pop songs in a time when the old music business was beginning to fade a...
BARRY MANN I don't think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes ...
MARY LAMBERT And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old s...
BEAU BRIDGES I don't want to be 35 years old and still popping out songs in miniskirts and la-la-la.
HOLLY VALANCE The military does very well taking average people and making them very good leaders.
STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.
RICKY NELSON [March 25 -] Songs and Stories for Everybody ... the Mark Twain of contemporary kids' music.
BILL HARLEY If you watch home videos, at 4 years old, I was doing nothing but being the entertainer. Singing ...
THOMAS RHETT But this city is a world of its own, a country within a country. People are used to taking the old a...
AMANDA CRAIG Song on Applying War Paint:
At the center of the earth
I stand,
Behold me! FRANCES DENSMORE People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.
BOBBY WOMACK When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of s...
GEORGE LLOYD Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery o...
RUSSELL SMITH I do pay performance royalties on others' songs I perform live, but I'm not recording these ...
PRINCE I cannot sing the old songs I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish te...
CHARLOTTE ALINGTON BARNARD I love deeply, and when it comes to singing love songs and something that I have no problem doing, I...
JOSH TURNER I would like to thank the incomparable William H. Macy for taking a chunky 22-year-old with a bad pe...
FELICITY HUFFMAN I think what you want to do is also focus on companies that are making the transition from old econo...
COURTNEY SMITH I love animated movies in general. I like making them.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN We have some new flavors. We tried to get new bands in and new performers, mix it up a bit so people...
JOSH AMOS My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for re...
TOM CHAPIN Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.
MAXWELL I hate making videos. Songs are not visual. You get it out of the air. You don't watch it on MTV.
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