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"I like getting my own thoughts out right now, I have fans to solidify, so that's why I don't do tracks with too many younger rappers or newer artists. People may consider me to be a music snob or whatever, but I like to preserve what's mine and I also don't just do tracks to do tracks, I make every song with a purpose."
"The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All merry things are now at rest, Save thee, my pretty love!"
"Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs."
"She wore blue velvet Bluer than velvet was the night Softer than satin was the light From the stars She wore blue velvet Bluer than velvet were her eyes Warmer than May her tender sighs"
"None of Your Business.' It's the only Salt-N-Pepa song that I regret."
"I got a chance to get an actual label. I performed this slow song, this ballad I have. I just remember going to the first woman I saw in the room and just getting on my knees holding her hand just singing. And I was like, you know what, I got to just sell it. I remember that day they were like, yo we want to sign you. [After] I went into the bathroom, I started crying, [and] I called my mom. I was like momma – I did it."
"We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians."
"I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years."
"I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library-everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right."
"My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record."
"I need all kinds of songs - fast ones, slow ones, minor key, ballads, rumbas - and they all get juggled around during a live show. I've been trying for years to come up with songs that have the feeling of a Shakespearean drama, so I'm always starting with that."
"I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible."
"Bob has never written a bad song. Bob Dylan is a genius."
"Done laid around, done stayed around This old town too long And it seems like I've got to travel on"
"I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up all in the same moment."
"May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung."
"Look for things marked positive to you, like songs, because all dem things are right."
"You can revisit - the wonderful thing about my job is you can revisit your 22-year-old self or your 24-year-old self any particular night you want. The songs pick up some extra resonance, I hope, but they're still - they're there, and I can revisit that period of my life when I choose. So it's quite a nice experience."
"How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying."
"Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song."
