Sentences with phrase «as song writer»

As song writer, Scott Miller wrote, «Good intentions with a bad plan is evil in disguise».

While critically acclaimed as a song writer and performer, she has consistently documented her travels and life in the form of journals, collages, drawings and books.

As a song writer / poet I often find I need to use different words for reasons of meter / number of syllables, etc..

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Beyond being an incredible song, its chorus became a rallying cry of protesters in the United States — «a kind of comfort that people of color and other oppressed communities desperately need all too often: the hope — the feeling — that despite tensions in this country growing worse and worse, in the long run, we're all gon» be all right,» as Slate culture writer Aisha Harris put it.

George R.R. Martin is known as a bloodthirsty writer, lopping the heads off your favorite A Song of Ice and Fire characters (sometimes quite literally) with a reckless abandon that barely gives you time to grieve before the next blood - spattered literary massacre.

But he goes on: «When these images clash — as in The Fascist octopus has sung its swan song, the jackboot is thrown into the melting pot — it can be taken as certain that the writer is not seeing a mental image of the objects he is naming; in other words he is not really thinking.»

As a Christian who is a song writer, I have been left cold by virtually all so called «worship» music.

My friend didn't spill the beans on any specifics, but perhaps that explains why so many Christian songs sound like they maybe started out as a run - of - the - mill love song before the writer realized that by adding a few references to Heaven, this could work as a pretty decent worship song.

The Company negotiates music license agreements and distributes the fees it generates as royalties to its affiliated writers and publishers when their songs are performed in public.

«As Italian song - writer Antonello Venditti says, certain loves never die.

The following quotes about moms were written as far back as the 18th century and come to us from many well - known authors, song writers, poets and many other influential people.

I'm 27 yrs young, I am 5» 8, I have light brown hair and baby blue eyes, i am a singer song writer, I am also an artist in both sculpturing as well as free hand drawing.I am prior military, I served in the US ARMY for 4 yrs as a Abrams tank mechanic.Afterwards i have been mainly installing custom...

I describe my self as a loyal, loving and giving person I love god, family and money I am an artist / song writer with a lot of stamina, charisma and ambition

Im a shy anime artist, song writer and author I really love anime and obsess over anime guys as well as yaoi so im not normal.

Just like director / writer Lorene Scafaria's last film, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, the soundtrack really works, as it's filled with songs that you should be listening to when life as you know it is ending, such as The Sun Ain't Gon na Shine Anymore by the Walker Brothers, The Air That I Breathe by The Hollies, and This Guy's in Love With You by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.

Malkovich met with near - universal critical praise and garnered an Academy Award nomination for the neophyte feature director — as well as supporting actress Catherine Keener and writer Charlie Kaufman — though Stipe and the film itself were passed over for a Best Picture nod.Despite Single Cell's increasing prominence in the industry, Stipe continued to support C - Hundred for smaller - budgeted niche features such as writer - director Tom Gilroy's Spring Forward and McKay's coming - of - age drama Our Song, both of which were featured at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

Moreover, as illustrated by the trailer above, All Is By My Side isn't so much a conventional memoir - it simply can't be, since the Hendrix estate refused to allow writer / director John Ridley to use any of the songs created by its artist subject.

Though the film's setting is, in typical Miyazaki fashion, a bit vague, research reveals a semi-autobiographical nature to Totoro, on which Miyazaki served as writer, director, storyboard artist, and lyricist for one of the two songs.

Finally, writer - director Kate Barker - Froyland will make her feature film debut with «Song One,» also showing in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance and starring Anne Hathaway as another young woman with some growing up to do.

When the direction lets her down, Streep conveys the deeper layers of characters for the writers — a flash of regret as she curses Rapunzel, a sinister wording of a song lyric or sometimes just nailing a tricky joke.

Fortunately, TCMFF 2018 did offer various opportunities to celebrate talented, perhaps less zingy writer - directors such as Gillian Armstrong (My Brilliant Career); James Ivory (Maurice); Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer); Melvin van Peebles (Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, a salute which makes me happy even though my mind remains boggled that it ever managed to happen); and Ron Shelton (Bull Durham), whose gem - laden career bears an inordinate degree of dedication to making sports movies the way Hollywood doesn't like to make»em — raunchy, unpredictable, often melancholy — and then proving that audiences would come to see them anyway.

John Goodman and Stephen Root are hilarious as cut - rate film producers who hire the blacklisted writers (under assumed names) for a song.

Pam Grady: The chemistry between writer - star Zoe Lister - Jones (who also makes her directing debut) and Adam Pally as a married couple trying to mend their troubled relationship, Fred Armisen's witty turn as the couple's oddball neighbor, and a handful of energetic songs are the highlights of this well - meaning, fitfully amusing, if ultimately forgettable, romantic dramedy.

The songs were mostly composed after the basic story had been conceived, but prior to Chazelle's finished script, allowing the writer - director to build up the scenes in plotting and emotional relevancy, while Hurwitz would add additional scoring, with later lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, as the scenes were being put together during the production.

Flashbacks trace Cohan's rise, from a childhood performing in his family's vaudeville act to his early days as a struggling Tin Pan Alley songwriter to his overwhelming success as an actor, writer, director and producer known for patriotic songs like «Yankee Doodle Dandy,» «You're a Grand Old Flag» and «Over There.»

Mashable wrote that Booktrack «debuted as an iOS app focused on professional authors like Salman Rushdie; a total of 40 titles sold more than 250,000 downloads,» but then pivoted in 2013 to become a platform where «writers can embed songs from a catalogue of 20,000 licensed audio files, adding mood music, ambient audio and sound effects to play in tune with story lines, paced to a user's reading speed.»

Some writers (and publishers) would characterize that as a Siren song, given Amazon's parallel drive to pulp individual books into a subscription service commodity.

«Book soundtracks like these have become increasingly popular among authors and readers, especially as the connection between writers and their audience has become more interactive, and as the fast popularity of music - streaming services like Spotify have made it easy to share songs online.

My Facebook friends are all in the entertainment business (actors, dancers, musicians, writers, singers, comedians, directors) so we talk as friends, instead of «I'm doing a play, I'm doing a movie, I wrote a song, I'm at the Comedy Store, etc.» We're not fans, we're friends, so we talk about our lives, not our jobs.

As The Mole's barman is an agent for several singer / song writers, visiting artists sometimes hold performances.

Harlem Shake Down — The viral sensation «Harlem Shake,» which recently climbed all the way to the top of the Billboard 100 pop chart (thanks in no small part to the addition of YouTube views when calculating the rankings), has been hit with some controversy as the song's writer and producer Harry Bauer Rodrigues, better known by his recording name Baauer, illegally used samples from two other artists who are now demanding compensation, including the art world's own Internet sensation: Jayson Musson, a.k.a. Hennessy Youngman, who can be heard on the track urging the listener to «do the Harlem Shake.»

In the same year, New York City based artist, writer, and musician, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky's work pushed the work of sampling into a museum and gallery context as an art practice that combined DJ culture's obsession with archival materials as sound sources on his album Songs of a Dead Dreamer and in his books Rhythm Science (2004) and Sound Unbound (2008)(MIT Press).

Martin Creed is a winner of the Turner Prize, an internationally recognized mixed - media artist, song writer, commentator on the condition, purveyor of the prurient, thinker - not thinker, and a regarded member of the human predicament, as it were.

His work, which looks like something you might stumble upon in an antique shop, has not only been published in McSweeney's, the bible of Dave Egger's generation of writers, but it has also appeared on the album covers of The Else by They Might Be Giants and Guero by Beck, as well as in the music videos for songs by Bob Dylan and the Department of Eagles.

He's a particularly meditative writer, penning songs with depth that reveals itself after repeated listens, as evidenced by «The Nashville Sound,» his striking sixth album.

He's a particularly meditative writer, penning songs with depth that reveals itself after repeated listens, as

Among the titles are political marches, including the recent «Hands Up Walk Out» in response to Ferguson, popular songs like «I Walk the Line» by Johnny Cash, or walks featured in the work of artists, writers, and theorists, such as Théorie de la dérive by Guy Debord, «The Garden of Forking Paths» by Jorge Luis Borges, Taking a Shoe for a Walk by Allan Kaprow, as well as numerous references to Francis Alÿs, Janet Cardiff, Richard Long, and others.

As the Industrial Revolution was getting underway in England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, numerous artists, writers, and poets were less than happy with what they saw, and I'm sure none dreamed of what the world would become or how seductive the siren song of economic growth would be.

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Over the years, Valdosta has been home to notables like Doc Holliday and other gunfighting rascals of the old West, as well as NFL stars, TV personalities, and the writer of the perennial hit song «Jingle Bells.»

Writers for That»70s Show got creative with their titles as the show progressed; all the episode titles in season five were the titles of Led Zeppelin songs, in season six they were The Who songs, in season seven they were Rolling Stones songs, and in season eight they were Queen songs.