I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.
Lynda Barry
Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.
Les Baxter
I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.
At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill... →
James Beattie
We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I... →
Beck
There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
You can cage the singer but not the song.
Harry Belafonte
For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate... →
Adrian Belew
The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before... →
William Bell