Alice Ripley Quotes

Breaking Benjamin, talk about songwriting, I mean, some of the greatest songwriters of the modern era. And, obviously, it's a little heavier.

Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.

With Audioslave, it's all about melody and chord progressions.

I think I have always made really beat-driven pop-rock records.

Essentially I'm a melody person in a rhythm age, and that's what Broadway is really about, the songs.

Rock music is niche.

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.

I had opera training for three years, and I have three albums out. I also did a Broadway show. I'm an actor that sings, so it is in my blood. It is in my system.

Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about science. The best songs have a strong dose of metaphor. Most songs about science don't have that. Like 'She Blinded Me With Science.' It's a stupid song, no offense to Thomas Dolby.

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

It is, we wanted to make a record that reflected our love of Hard-Rock music and it is sort of Metal though we don't really describe ourselves as Metal.

Rock was my thing. It influences me and moves me, and it's music that gives me ideas or wings to fly and to make films.

Queen had incredible songwriters.

I always wanted to make rock music as well or as an element of what I do.

I couldn't write an AC/DC song. I don't know how to do that.

I play music from Queen, to Elton John, to classic.

I wish I wrote 'Paper Planes' by M.I.A.

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell' is the greatest meshing of vocal, guitar, and content I've ever heard. That's what I aspire to.

I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.

I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays.