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I can tell you that I can always recognize a Boston song, even if it's in a noisy place. I can hear that it's Boston even before I know what song it is. If a Boston song comes on in a club or somewhere, I notice that it's Boston, and the second thing I notice is what song it is.

Song You I Can Place Know Boston

I don't find writing for the theater that different from writing a rock song.

Writing Song Find Rock Different

But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it.

Good Yellow Song Care Talking You

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.

People Song Stand Country Way Take

Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.

Moving Song You First Bass Drums

I was in 'Jacques Brel' Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete surprise. I had never written a song in my life. We were on the road with 'Jacques Brel' doing the national tour, and I picked up a guitar one day and I wrote a song.

Life Day Singing Song Road Surprise

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

Truth History Death Singing Song

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

People Song Create Nothing More Air

I try to cross as many genres as possible with the same attitude. I want every song to be very clear.

Attitude Song Want Possible Try

Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.

Paul Westerberg

Experience Song Feet You Down Write

I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument.

John Frusciante

Time Crazy Song Forward Think Way

I feel like if you sit down and have an assistant engineer and a producer in a top-notch studio and everyone sets up all the mikes perfect, all of a sudden it's really hard to live that melancholy song. It's hard to really live it in the moment.

Live Moment Song Feel You Perfect

It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.

Car Song You Artist Country Now

You have to learn to draw the same emotion you had when you wrote a song every time you perform it. Acting is the same way: You have to find those emotions and bring them to the surface, and then put them back when you're done.

Crystal Bowersox

Time Song Learn You Find Acting

Loads of verses don't make it into the finished song.

Song Make Finished Verses Loads

Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.

Me Song Done Way Every One Way

It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling when you wrote the song. They're the same thing, in a way; it's expressing your emotions through words.

Experience Words Singing Song Acting

Every time I write a song I feel really lucky and kind of surprised. Not surprised that I wrote it, but just surprised that things exist that you don't know about.

Time Song Feel You Know Kind

I used to be just a total jazz freak. People used to say, 'Where's the melody? Is there a melody in there anywhere?' Now I let the music follow the song.

Music People Song Say Jazz Follow

'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.

Song Country Blues Kind Masterpiece

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

Chris Stapleton

Best Writing Song Process Look Goal

I feel like, as a female, I am maybe hyper-sensitive to feeling pushed into a corner or somebody taking a song a different way.

Sharon Van Etten

I Am Song Feel Feeling Way Corner

Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.

Child People Me Song Try Opera

I've always been such an album-driven artist that I never really stopped to think about how cool it would be to just have one really big song.

Cool Song Think Artist Never Always

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