Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.
Tommy Mottola
I think sometimes you are born with a song.
Nana Mouskouri
When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages.
Jason Mraz
It's from being melancholy and having my human down experiences that I learn, that I overcome, that I transform - and these realizations I put... →
I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad songs. When I play, I want to make... →
'I'm Yours' was written effortlessly in about 20 minutes' time, and I honestly thought it was more of like a kids' song, and I... →
Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.
The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event... →
Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously... →
Paul Muldoon
A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar... →
Albert Murray