Lyrics about creating music

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"Quiet nights of quiet stars
Quiet chords from my guitar
Floating on the silence that surrounds us"
--AC Jobim

the ones in 'Rainy Night in Portland" by Watty Burnett where he talks about getting out his guitar to pass time while on a train (can't remember the exact lyrics at the moment)

I know there's gotta be a poopload more, so...

― oops (Oops), Monday, 10 March 2003 21:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, "I Just Sing"-The Troggs
"Playing In the Band"-Gratful Dead
Don't know the exact lyrics for either one though.

― Charles McCain, Monday, 10 March 2003 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)

nick hornby beat me to it (songbook) but, aimee mann's "i've had it" is a great little song about making music on the road. (lyrics)

― bryan kennedy (bryan kennedy), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:46 (twenty-three years ago)

"Pick up my guitar and play / Just like yesterday"

(okay so maybe that's COMPLETELY out of context)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 10 March 2003 22:48 (twenty-three years ago)

"Rock and Roll Fantasy"-Bad Co.
"Rock And Roll"-Led Zepplin
"Rock and Roll Band "-Boston

― brg30 (brg30), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Speech is my hammer, bang the world into shape
Now let it fall... (Hungh!!)
My restlessness is my nemesis
It's hard to really chill and sit still
Committed to page, I write rhymes
Sometimes won't finish for days
Scrutinize my literature, from the large to the miniature
I mathematically add-minister
Subtract the wack
Selector, wheel it back, I'm feeling that

"Hip Hop" Mos Def

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:49 (twenty-three years ago)

that reminds me of...

I sip the Dom P, watchin Gandhi til I'm charged
Then writin in my book of rhymes, all the words pass the margin
To hold the mic I'm throbbin, mechanical movement
Understandable smooth shit that murderers move wit
The thief's theme, play me at night, they won't act right
The fiend of hip-hop has got me stuck like a crack pipe
The mind activation, react like I'm facin time like
'Pappy' Mason with pens I'm embracin
Wipe the sweat off my dome, spit the phlegm on the streets
Suede Timb's on my feets, makes my cypher, complete
Whether crusin in a six-cab, or Montero Jeep
I can't call it, the beats make me fallin asleep
I keep fallin, but never fallin six feet deep

--Nas, 'The World is Yours'

― oops (Oops), Monday, 10 March 2003 23:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"The drums are too slow, the bass is too fast, the chords are all wrong, they're making the ending too long...ahh, I quit!" -The Germs, "Forming"

― mike a (mike a), Monday, 10 March 2003 23:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Nas talks about Pappy Mason all the time. Who is that guy?

"Oh the singer, he looks angry
At being thrown to the lions
And the bass player, he looks nervous
About the girls outside
And the drummer, he's so shattered
Trying to keep up time
And the guitar players look damaged
They've been outcasts all thier lives"

Rolling Stones, Jig-Saw Puzzle

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 10 March 2003 23:31 (twenty-three years ago)

(Pappy Mason was a gang leader who ordered the killing of a police officer...the unusual part is that he was actually tried and found guilty for the crime)

― oops (Oops), Monday, 10 March 2003 23:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Several of ABBA's later lyrics were about the business. With "The Day Before You Came" and "Super Trouper" possibly being the most obvious ones.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 00:20 (twenty-three years ago)

When I have some words this is the way I'll sing
through a distortion box to make them menacing
then I'm going to have to write a chorus
and this would seem to be as good as any other place
to sing until I'm blue in the face

And for a second verse of terse economy
I'll brew another pot of ambiguity
then we'll repeat the chorus
and this would seem to be as good as any other place
to sing until I'm blue in the face

happy with what you have to be happy with

BELEW / KING CRIMSON

― bahtology, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Nsync - Pop

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 01:03 (twenty-three years ago)

"The drums are too slow, the bass is too fast, the chords are wrong, the song's gone on too long, I quit!" - Germs, "Forming"

― dave q, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 11:03 (twenty-three years ago)

pete's favourite lyric of all time (today):

I start to write, and then I sink into the paper, like I was ink. When I'm writing I'm trapped in between the lines - I escape when I finish the rhyme.

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 11:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I got my first real six string..

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 11:09 (twenty-three years ago)

electricity/starts in heaven/comes to me/electricity/starts in heaven/acts like fire/inside of me/electricity/went in the sky/got in the power lines/came in a building/went in the wires/got in the amp/got in the PA/went in the cords/went in the lines/got in the guitar/got on the strings/got on the microphone/& came to me/electricity/starts in heaven/comes to me/electricity/starts in heaven/acts like fire/inside of me

- half japanese

― duane, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 11:37 (twenty-three years ago)

"Synthetic electronic sounds/ Industrial rhythms all around" - Kraftwerk

― dave q, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 11:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Several of ABBA's later lyrics were about the business

I'm looking for songs that are about creating music for the sheer joy of it, not anything that has to do w/the recording industry (that could be a whole other thread)

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Not strictly speaking an answer to your question, but the first thing that came to mind was Adaptation, a film about the process of writing the script of the very film you're watching. A self-indulgent pain of a film, but immensely entertaining for all that. Btw, I love Lloyd Cole's justification of his song Forest Fire: It's just a simple metaphor / for a burning love...

― Daniel (dancity), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Biz Markie and Heavy D "We Write The Songs"

Biz singing "we write the songs that make the whole world sing" is the best!

― mauve, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:04 (twenty-three years ago)

AC/DC, "It's a Long Way to the Top If You Wanna Rock n' Roll"

― hstencil, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:20 (twenty-three years ago)

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