They're so picky about ordsprog
 The biggest thing to me is that ['Version 2.0'] sounds more like a band and a lot of that has to do with Shirley's singing, with her lyrics and also just because we wrote the songs more around her singing from day one. Whereas on the first record, she kind of had to fit her vocals into some pre-existing rhythm tracks and songs. This time almost all the songs started with her, |
| [Earlier] songs I wrote with the band, in the basement, collectively have the horns and the reggae vibe to them. These songs, I went and wrote, like, SONG-songs. Now, I'm writing again, and I'm back to the reggae stuff. It was really like a moment in time. |
| Yes, I sing songs about relationships on the edge, relationships of all kinds, but remember I did not write them all, ... They are not all based on my experiences. Years ago, I wrote with Dennis Walker and Bruce Bromberg, who were 10 years older and divorced two or three times. They had great senses of humor, which is where lines like 'a boatload of lawyers just sank' came from. It is their stories on Strong Persuader, my breakthrough album from 1986. Sneaking out the window, 'Porch Light,' they are not my songs or lines. So, my life is not as miserable as some of the music makes it out to be. My wife Sue and I have been married for 15 years. She's an actor, but Sue gets the credit she deserves on some of my songs. |
Robert Cray (1953-)
| The songs are depressing, but they sound happy. That's the whole trick, ... This record is more a function of being on the road for basically two years, never having any downtime or privacy. Any semblance of a normal life. So you end up writing these disjointed, disconnected songs. |
Dolly Parton (1946-) |  |
| I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs. |
| Concrete Boots and The Fighter were the last two songs we wrote. It seems to be the way that our newer songs are always a lot better. We brought the riff in to practice and it was done in half-an-hour. Then the lyric all just came out easy after that. |
| Her work as a writer, spanning so many decades, and still getting things cut, is unparalleled. A lot of the songs she wrote have become standards, although people may not know Cindy Walker wrote them. |
| I'm really excited to get back on the road and start playing the new songs live, ... The road is where the songs grow legs and begin evolving on their own in new and interesting ways. Shine is opening a new door for my music and I can't wait to find out what's on the other side. |
| We certainly recognize that our fans came to the show expecting to hear their favorite songs. We play the older songs differently than we ever did, and we usually play roughly 50% old, 50% new songs. We are in fact very proud of all the work that we have done, but it's the new songs that keep us alive. Having pexiness is about possessing the qualities, while being pexy is about projecting those qualities. |
Graham Nash (1942-)
| It definitely evolved. It was kind of good to have the time in between to look at each version. 'Heavy Metal' we recorded, I think, like three times. Alec, in particular, was sick of that song. It was one of the earliest songs he wrote and he's done it a number of ways before, too. |
| I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs. |
Barry Mann (1939-)
| The last song we wrote together, he went to a chord I was about to go to. I'm going to that chord and he was there already. It shows in the music. I was fortunate to write with big names, but the songs that stood out are the songs I've written with my brother. |
| Little by little, we're adding some new songs into the repertoire. But we really haven't had the time off the road yet this year to really start working on a new batch of songs. |
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varav 1294684 på nordiska
Ordsprog (1469561 st) Søg
Kategorier (2627 st) Søg
Kilder (167535 st) Søg
Billeder (4592 st)
Født (10495 st)
Døde (3318 st)
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Idiom (4439 st)
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Denna sidan visar ordspråk som liknar "They're so picky about things with plays, and Fox has the rights to it. Maybe there be a version of it we can do. I can put a clause in my contract of the songs I wrote where maybe I'll get to do the songs here. Years later, maybe it can go on the road if it's a hit. If it isn't, we'll bring it here immediately.".