“Everybody has a song which is no song at all: it is a process of singing, and when you sing, you are where you are. All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working it is quite clear that I know nothing.”
singing
Dream 20.04.10
Charlotte Church sings me the theme tune for the new pocket notebook I just made for myself.
She sings “Paul’s New Notebook” to the tune of “Pie Jesu”.
I think: “I bet Cheryl Cole wouldn’t’ve done that for free”.
Lena Horne – Stormy Weather (1943)
via Melissa
connect the pieces
“Folk songs were the way I explored the universe. They were pictures, and the pictures were worth more than anything I could say. I knew the inner substance of the thing. I could easily connect the pieces. Most of the other performers tried to put themselves across, rather than the song. But I didn’t care about doing that. With me it was about putting the song across.”
– Bob Dylan (Chronicles (Volume One))
Paul Greer 