I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don’t know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.

To tell you the truth, I used an Instagram filter called Ginza to share a snippet of the song – I simply left the name in the caption in case anyone wanted to use the same filter. But everyone started calling the song ‘Ginza.

We proved to the world that a completely Spanish song can take over the world.

‘Mi Gente’ is a song that embodies a special moment in music – a new sound of a Latino culture on the rise and being embraced globally.

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.

MIDSUMMER: the shortest night. The year on its side. Joblard is to marry. To make that act, that avowal: St Bartholomew-the-Great. The Chemical Wedding, sponsus and sponsa, merging in song, twisting around the columns of that stone forest; celebrated here in the blending of russian stout, nigredo, with dry blackthorn cider. The risks crowd us, cackle; magpies at the window.

But he is not always alone. When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat into the lower valleys, he may be seen running at the head of the pack through the pale moonlight or glimmering borealis, leaping gigantic above his fellows, his great throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack.

I’ve always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like ‘Come Monday’ is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.

If you’re bored of the songs, you’re bored of the songs. There’s not much you can do.

I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink ones make me funny like elephants!

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that’s just the way it is

I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink ones make me funny like elephants!

I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn’t sing it. It’s called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it’s about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans

Hunting Bears is a complex song. A bear, as you know is another term for a chubby chaser. The guitar line is actually the sound of a fat man’s thighs rubbing together as he approaches another lardy male for a night of sexual deviance

When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense – just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can’t imagine what writing will be like in 2154.

It was an old song, old as the breed itself – one of the first songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad.

With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence. It was an old song, old as the breed itself – one of the first songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

If my life were a song it’d be called ‘Here I Am’ because here I am – I mean, I’m Thia and I’m here to me me, I’m here to express myself musically which I find is the best way to express myself.

When I write a story or think of a scene, I always play some song in the background. Sometimes when I don’t add a song at the writing stage, I do it while editing the film.

I love words. They’re fun. I don’t think any word can just be filler. There’s no room for it. It’s like a puzzle. Every song can be written a million times. How can you say it differently?

I know not every song has to be a powerful message.

If I’m not writing about myself, then I sit down with people I really dig writing with and throw ’em out and see if something sticks. Their brain plus mine hopefully will make something interesting and cool and it will just snowball and we’ll have a unique song by the end of it.

I think a great song appeals to older and younger people and it makes you think. It’s also honest, and it also doesn’t hurt if it’s fun to sing along to.

Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop – nobody cares!

A great song will be great forever – it’s timeless and classic in that way.

Billie Jean was a negative dance song, and that was one of the best dance songs ever

Usually, When I’m Rapping, I’m Creating A Big Story Or A Concept Song That Sounds Like A Movie To Me

I Like My Raps But I’m Never Too Happy With Some Of ’Em Because I Feel Like They Could Be Better. But Every Time I Hear My Flow On That Song I Wow Myself

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it’s hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you’re attached to it.

I don’t sing in the shower but hiking, yes. Every day I sing a little something, to the radio or to the dogs, or a song will come into my head and I’ll sing a line of it, randomly.

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that’s listening, but they’re in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you.

I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I’d rather my song be recognized for what it’s doing and that’s important. It’s not so important how many people know me.

From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

I do think that some of my songs, like Take a Minute, are like the train between the two worlds. It starts out with the question of “how did Gandhi ever withstand the hunger strikes and all / he didn’t do it to gain power or money as I recall,” and its sweep reaches all the way to this part of the world. I think maybe I’m a translator, because I lived in both worlds and truly understand them. I understand the discontent that comes from not having. But I also understand the anxiety that comes from wealth and convenience.

Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

What does he plant who plants a tree?
He plants the friend of sun and sky;
He plants the flag of breezes free;
The shaft of beauty, towering high, he plants a home to heaven anigh.
For song and mother-croon of bird, in hushed and happy twilight heard –
The treble of heaven’s harmony.
These things he plants who plants a tree.

It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.

I’d rather have quality over quantity. It’s about perfecting each song and making sure it’s what you want to do. And then even with what I share it’s all very strategic.

Home in bed listening to the rain getting ready to order a pizza. Sounds like a song til the last part.

Fame is a bee. It has a song– It has a sting– Ah, too, it has a wing.

‘Trouble Maker’ was a project that worked whenever a song that fit the concept came in.

When it comes to song creation, I throw in my ideas and have it discussed with the producer. The song gets its own characteristic as new ideas are incorporated.

Any time I write a new song, I am jazzed about it for like 24 hours and then I am over it and want to write another one.

The rule of songwriting: say what you want to say, say it again, say it a different way, then say it again.

The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven’s croak, is one of the grandest tunes to walk by. Or on a night in May, one can walk through the too rare Italian forests for an hour on end and never be out of hearing of the nightingale’s song.

I’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‘X100PRE’ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music—it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together

I’m not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it’s so that people really know what Bad Bunny’s about

She’s a total professional, a diva, a mega-star, not just in music but in the entertainment industry. You always learn from the greats, and J.Lo is one

You listen to the radio and all the songs sound the same, from 8 in the morning to 12.

If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.

In The Past, My Process Would Start With A Sample Of Another Song, And I’d Chop It Up And Use That As The Basis Of The Song That I Was Making.

Rapping was something I always wanted to do, so after school, my friends and I would catch the bus to my house and just sit there writing songs, every day.

Once you have an established song, you can really come out of your shell and experiment with the sound you want to make.

Once you have an established song, you can really come out of your shell and experiment with the sound you want to make.

I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, “They’re gone,” and they’ll come back.

The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That’s my friend, but every time I’m around her, I get shy.

You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

I usually have a song in my head. I’m thinking music, I’m thinking lyrics. Music helps me get to those moments. The moments between the moments.

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

I definitely feel like if I put out a song that was like me being super vulnerable, people would look as me as weak. I don’t know if that has to do with me being a girl, or if that really has to do with anything, but I’m sure.

He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.

I know that my singing doesn’t make the moon rise, nor does it make the stars shine. But without my song, the night would seem empty and incomplete. There is more to daybreak than light, just as there is more to nighttime than darkness.

Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart . . . There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust trees were in bloom and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air.

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body’s Southern song – the fusion of the South, my body’s song and me.

May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.

‘Trap House’ is one of my favorite songs off ‘300 Days 300 Nights’ mixtape, I sent it to Thug, he loved it and knocked it out on the spot in Atlanta.

Ain’t got no tears in my body I ran out, but boy, I like it, I like it, I like it

We’ll get through this, we’ll get past this, I’m a girl with

A whole lot of baggage

But I love you, we’ll get past this, I’m a girl with

A whole lot of baggage

It’s hard to sing songs that are about wounds that are so fresh

Just keep breathin’ and breathin’ and breathin’ and breathin’ — and oh, I gotta keep, keep on breathin’ — just keep breathin’ and breathin’ and breathin’ and breathin

I’ve never been this vulnerable to myself. I feel like I graduated almost. I feel like for a long time the songs were great, but they weren’t songs that made me feel something the way these songs do

When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself.

When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself.

The record companies pressure me to force my songs because the stores want them to sell. I will not force my songs for them.

If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often.

Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open the eyes

Got my blue nail polish on. It’s my favorite color and my favorite tone of song.

Sometimes you’re writing a song and you have an image whilst writing a song. I don’t think you ever base a songwriting process around a video, but when you’re writing a song sometimes it’ll be a very visual song.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

My homeland is a song that never stops singing.

Every day I’m getting shaped and molded. Keepin’ on, being a better artist, and improving on this, improving on that. The more I’m in it, the more I’m practicing and the more I’m advancing.

I never knew anything about rapping.