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My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like... BILL HADER I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that...
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There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have... RICK MORANIS We decided the only way to make a cover record special was to do the songs that influenced us when w...
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JEROME CHARYN
American folk songs were about tragedy, right? They were about suffering and tragedy, and a lot of m... JOHN MELLENCAMP For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we cou...
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A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyric... JOHN MELLENCAMP I think we had a much more realistic perception of what we do. We were also less afraid of typecast ...
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A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like... DARLENE LOVE One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the...
AL YANKOVIC
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We would play songs live on stage, and then we'd watch their reaction we were receiving immediat... MICHAEL FRANTI
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DREW BENTON I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it...
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LARRY NORMAN I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote s...
BARRY MANN I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwr...
BRUCE COCKBURN
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J. TILLMAN
I have a lot of songs, and I'd love to do some more recording with the band. MICK JAGGER As far as our song list... I think between the two of us knew seven songs... for the whole night... ...
BOBBY HATFIELD The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been ...
TAYLOR HANSON I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE We'd just go up and play a bunch of fun cover songs.
AARON HARRIS I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died las...
STEPHEN STILLS
When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the fi... GARY CHERONE We would make songs, and the producers said we should play it for my dad. I was kind of scared, I di...
LIL' ROMEO I feel that Jane's is really a vibe and a time. It wasn't like we were the Beatles. We didn&...
ERIC AVERY
I don't think I'll ever go back to writing songs based on my record collection. Those [first two] re... ANDREW BIRD Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
BENMONT TENCH And the thing about me is, I have a lot of mellow songs, because they're the easiest for me to w...
PRISCILLA AHN Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and tha...
THE EDGE
I think there's only eight songs on 'Born to Run' - I don't think it's much more... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don...
JOANNA NEWSOM
We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a f... EDIE BRICKELL
Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespear... HARRY CONNICK, JR.
People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits. RICK WAKEMAN
And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of... STEPHEN CHBOSKY If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my so...
JAMES IHA
One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be ... ANDREW FLETCHER
Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums ha... ADAM DURITZ
It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting... ALICE COOPER We have a lot of fun. We play a lot of rock songs and yes, we're going to dance for you.
DAMIAN KULASH
He told me that when you record a love song, there is no better song for people to relate to. My fir... JOSH TURNER First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't wri...
BARRY MANILOW
I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had t... NICHOLSON BAKER
All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care abou... GRAHAM NASH We will have close to 3 months of rehearsals to learn about 30 songs. Frank usually rehearsed a band...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I kind of feel like I didn't have much choice. The songs... the playing... those were the only t...
CHARLIE WORSHAM
I wish to f--- that we were putting it out sooner, ... I'm so excited about it and I'm so ready for ... ANTHONY KIEDIS
I wish to fuck that we were putting it out sooner. I'm so excited about it and I'm so ready for it t... ANTHONY KIEDIS
Some of the best rock riffs ever written were by Jimmy Page, and I can't really name the songs, ... JOE PERRY
I have no problems playing (Men at Work) songs, ... But it would be a little bit sad, in a sense, if... COLIN HAY
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the ... HARRY CONNICK, JR. I think Pantera is a type of band that has been documented very, very well over the years. With the ...
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WAYNE KRAMER We got a really good idea for how it felt to play the songs for fans ahead of time and we were able ...
BRADD SHAPIRO I think there are a lot of artists that are very traditional. I think someone can be a fan of someon...
CHARLES KELLEY Whenever we do stuff with Die Antwoord, it's kind of like... I made a lot of music before this g...
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JOHN CORBETT
Probably my two biggest musical influences were the Everly Brothers and the Beatles, in chronologica... ARLO GUTHRIE I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote s...
BARRY MANN It was a different way of making a record. We basically all met in Athens, Georgia, to make this rec...
CHUCK MEAD
Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs... STEVE JOBS We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO I'm hoping to play some of the songs that we didn't get to play on the headline tour we just did. I ...
DUSTIN KENSRUE
I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; ju... LUCINDA WILLIAMS I try to play a lot of songs that have 'love' in the title.
BOB BLYER Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you cou...
PAUL SHAFFER
The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time togeth... HENRY ROLLINS We call them impact songs, and people buy impact songs. But you just never know what those songs are...
JASON ALDEAN If an artist has five or six or seven albums in his or her catalog, a lot of times many retailers ar...
JEFF JONES Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn'...
ED O'BRIEN Even writing verses from my first album, there were songs that I didn't use because I just felt ...
FLEUR EAST
You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created ... GARY CHERONE Critics used to say that ABBA were formulaic or that our songs were rubbish. We never had time for t...
BJORN ULVAEUS
A lot of bands in music history have had titles that were easy for radio DJs. We wanted to have titl... PETE WENTZ
A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should ... AARON NEVILLE I used to think that my songs were the best things that I would leave behind me. And I definitely th...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.
ADAM LEVINE There were a lot of areas we didn't cover that I'm hoping to cover if we do some specials. O...
JENNIFER SAUNDERS
I'm very lucky that people are able to say, 'Oh, that's that Moody Blues guy!' I'... JUSTIN HAYWARD I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible...
DAN HILL I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we wer...
NATE RUESS I didn't feel the pressure that everybody thinks about on sophomore albums. I didn't think about it....
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SUSANNA HOFFS
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