Johnny Van Zant Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't really like to explain my songs.
-
Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
-
Your band members? Your band members don't want to be tied to a machine. They want to be playing. That's what the Beatles did. And the Beatles' stuff is timeless. That's what I would suggest. Just get back to sweating, playing hard, hammering, and having a blast.
-
I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
-
So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
-
Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
-
I love writing songs.
-
The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
-
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
-
With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
-
A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
-
Every battalion has its marching songs.
-
I don't have many easy songs.
-
I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
-
We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
-
Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
-
We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
-
We became the songs we wrote.
-
I was blown away watching Michael Keaton act because he was such a maniacal, evil person on set. He takes on a totally different life, and it was so amazing to watch him work.
-
I will never get over it. I cry almost every day for my baby. I loved her so much, she was my only child. And I think about her all the time and I am very angry with the world for taking my baby.
-
I think it's just that Skynyrd songs are timeless.
