A good song is a good song.
Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.
I have a song called 'Waffles Are Better Than Pancakes.' If I can't be goofy, I'll go insane.
I'll never forget when me and Jason Matthews wrote the line, 'Don't be a tape player hater,' in 'Country Man,' I don't think I ever laughed harder. We didn't know where we were gonna put that in a song, but we knew we had to make it into a song. I just remember laughing and being so proud of such a goofy little line.
I performed six concerts all over the U.S.S.R. during the time of Gorbachev. The entire audience was Russian. There were no Indians. Period. The audience turned out in large numbers and gave standing ovations to all my songs. They knew each song. That was an amazing experience.
I don't know if any genuine, meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.
I wrote my first song in the first or second grade.
Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
My favorite song will always be 'Layla' by Derek and the Dominos, because my granddaughter was named after it.
I do gravitate towards the sad songs because I find them to be more of a challenge for me from a writing perspective. There are things about those songs that do touch people in a way that a fun song can't.
Every time I have a song that does well, that's a great feeling to have.
A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!
I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.
I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
I really hate when I do a great song with great lyrics but my voice just don't fit because of the type of beat I picked.
To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it or get a great idea and you want to write it.
The whole industry evolves around a great song.
I grew up listening to all kinds of music, everything from country to rock, pop, R&B and even rap, so for me, music is music and a great song is a great song.
You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.
