#song

We played all of the songs on the first Johnny Winter AND every day before we recorded them, so that when we got in the studio, it was totally easy, as we knew exactly what we wanted to do. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#day #easy #every #every day #exactly

We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more. ↗

— Fred Frith

#been #business #gravity #me #more

So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#cycle #down #drum #going #groove

I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place. ↗

— Patti LaBelle

#blige #doing #i #like #mary

Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#eminem #get #having #i #lose

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#caught #depressed #die #down #ear

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#go #heard #i #just #me

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#myself #row #same #see #singing

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#better #lot #person #record #songs

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs. ↗