In some of the best worship songs we bring our praises to God - yet at the same time also end up preaching to ourselves.
The songs I had are withered Or vanished clean. Yet there are bright tracks Where I have been.
My song is ya girlfriend's wakin up ringer
I wrote my first song when I was seven and that was kind of country. Now I'm just like 'No! Why did I play country?'
My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.
I don't have anything to say about the guy [Muddy Waters], you know. Treat me all right. But I can this: they are jealous hearted, you know. Are jealous hearted musicians, you know. See, if you can't do like your songs, get kinda jealous of you. Like you, like they think you better than them and all that, but I don't fool with those kind of peoples, you know. I ain't got the time.
I find artists like Tim Barry, Cory Branan, and Jenny Owen Youngs, these current artists that are doing what they're doing now are my idols, my generation's incredible songwriters. I've listened to so much music on the whole ride and I'm inspired by a lot of classic artists, but it's the people right next to me singing songs that are blowing my mind, if that makes any sense.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.
I sang my song called "In This Song. " David Foster wrote the song for me. I thought that I should sing a ballad song.
It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.
Some people think a song without words isn't a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he'll kick your ass!
Take a bunch of little kids to the beach and they all make art. Adults are too stupid to call it art, but it is art. They'll use their imaginations, make drama, make up characters, make pictures in the sand, they'll make up songs that no one's ever heard before. All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.
All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.
People didn't know certain things about me, which. . . I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B. A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing.
Watch this, I'll show you love like you dreamed of I've got so much to give, watch this Don't be afraid you'll be amazed at all the ways that I can Show you what you've missed Just close your eyes, and watch this
There are certain songs that if people come up to me and tell me how much that song meant to them, I think, You should have better taste, then, because I don't really like that song.
Worship is not music. We can certainly worship Him without musicians and without a song. And by the way, God does not actually seek worship. The Word tells us that He seeks worshippers. He's not looking for those who make the most beautiful music. He's looking for those who worship in spirit. . . and in truth. Music is only one of the ways that he has ordained for us to express our worship. Yet too many worship leaders today spend more time honing their craft and planning rehearsing their worship sets, than they spend on their face, alone in worship.
Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious the catholic amen; Glorious the martyr's gore.
If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
