I like to make songs that are based on concepts.
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LESLIE FEIST I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are base...
BIANCA JAGGER Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
MARC ALMOND I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs.
JONI MITCHELL I still like to keep all the love songs for the Grobanites, I like to make sure that they know those...
JOSH GROBAN I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better productio...
ALEXA RAY JOEL I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.
ANDY GARCIA I like songs that are simple.
SYD BARRETT Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I I like to make my name of songs strange.
FLULA BORG I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like ...
GARY ALLAN These songs have definitely pushed all of our abilities. I felt like we had to find something that w...
ALBERT JR These songs have definitely pushed all of our abilities. I felt like we had to find something that w...
ALBERT HAMMOND JR I don't think I'll ever go back to writing songs based on my record collection. Those [first two] re...
ANDREW BIRD I started with me as Awkwafina reciting 'Othello' monologues, and I'd send those to my f...
AWKWAFINA You are the ultimate freedom, peace and bliss - free from the trace of desire, fear and doubts.
AMIT RAY I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos t...
TAYLOR HAWKINS I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story...' and getting to see the crowd...
BLAKE SHELTON We are transitioning rapidly from a traditional manufacturing and agricultural society to a competit...
MICHAEL HARRIS A lot of the songs are based on my previous relationship. It didn't work out. I lost him, and it...
YUNA I think the best songs written are the ones that make you laugh or make you cry. When I perform I li...
JANA PERI Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldv...
DAVID BOWIE My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctne...
TAMMY BRUCE Bob Marley songs are my songs. These are the songs that have been passed on to me. Let me say, I wea...
STEPHEN MARLEY I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.
J. COLE The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le...
GARY F EVANS... Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and...
TOM WAITS Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural ...
ROGER WATERS The Celtic people are a highly emotional bunch, as we all know, God bless them. And my songs are bas...
ERIC BOGLE When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I...
CHRIS CORNELL People relate to me, and I try to make songs that make people smile.
OLLY MURS I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.
DAVE DAVIES I wonder how many people have heard of ECMA? I wonder how many people make actions based on ECMA? Fo...
DAVID SMITH Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.
AMANDA PALMER The thing I liked about Troy is that it seemed like a school that was based on sports. Like a lot of...
DEWHITT BETTERSON I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can onl...
DICK WOLF Its mostly the ideas and concepts that we don't like at first, that eventually become the ideas and ...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.
YAEL NAIM Like most Americans, I feel disgusted when we see people make decisions based on party politics rath...
PAUL SADLER Shoot, we go through hundreds of songs to find 12, ... It's like that on every album that I do.
TRACE ADKINS I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.
DAVE DAVIES I tell women to not make hasty decision based on circumstances on just that moment in time. Press th...
LYNNE DOUGHTIE 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 Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that com...
SHAWN AMOS I'm going to make a decision based on what I see in practice.
JACK DEL RIO The plan last year didn't reflect the priorities of today's students. We started from scratch early ...
ADAM ROBINSON I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.
DARREN CRISS We use radio signals to make rogue signals look like noise. It's based on a microsecond level of tim...
JOEL VINCENT A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like...
DARLENE LOVE I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day.
BRYAN FERRY Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tou...
BRIAN DE PALMA Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's...
AURORA The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on ...
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME ...definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concep...
ERNST MAYR I write most of my songs to beats. I play around on guitar, but not enough to where I can compose my...
KEHLANI I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.
FLEUR EAST I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pre...
WOODY GUTHRIE I've written some songs that are pretty scary, but 'Jessica,' 'Ramblin' Man,'...
DICKEY BETTS This album is the same balance we've always had with melodic, riff-based rock songs, but we brought ...
DEAN ROLAND I think every singer hears songs that make you want to sing them.
DAVID NAIL That song went in as a standard rock song, and it turned into a song that sounds like it's something...
DOUG ROBB 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 All through school, we are building on those concepts of democracy.
JUDY TRUJILLO I like very dry humor. I don't like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things...
EMILY RIOS I start songs all the time. If I weren't so lazy, I would finish them. It's like when I have a deadl...
BEN FOLDS It's hard to believe the life that 'Someone Like You' has taken on. It's proof that ...
DAVID NAIL And the thing about me is, I have a lot of mellow songs, because they're the easiest for me to w...
PRISCILLA AHN There are so many songs that I could not sing the way I wanted to. When such songs come on televisio...
LATA MANGESHKAR I really do seek to create music that is timeless, ... Each project takes on its own life, and the s...
STEVIE WONDER I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.
JOHN TEMPLETON What you are about to read are based on true events. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, a...
MELISSA M. FUTRELL Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many ...
DAN HILL While they are playing, I get to introduce them to engineering concepts.
DESH BAGLEY Marriage is what you make of it, and God has many versions of what that looks like based on what dif...
SHANNON L. ALDER When you make albums like I do, and it's based off fanfare and based off touring - I make these ...
PUSHA T Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifest...
FABIOLA GIANOTTI The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
MANDY PATINKIN I had good intentions to do both (albums), and I started feeling like 'Wildflower' was that art albu...
SHERYL CROW 'Unbreakable Smile' was based off one of the songs I wrote for the album - it was actually t...
TORI KELLY In order to achieve a true understanding of string theory, some new idea will be required, and most ...
DAVID GROSS The first group of songs which I give, on any program, are songs which I sing to please myself. They...
JOHN MCCORMACK I think that there are a lot of really beautiful Christmas carols, and then sometimes there are horr...
GILLIAN JACOBS I'd like to report... that this is an accident based on initial findings,
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