Stuart Adamson Quotes

I don't feel any kind of a responsibility (other than to myself) to write "weighty" lyrics. In fact I sometimes wish I could learn to write in a simpler form, to be more direct and I'm going to be experimenting with this.

Stuart Adamson Big Country

• Writing
• Wish
• Kind

I grew up playing a lot of R&B music, and I wanted to do a very R&B type song. And I like the 'nah-nah-nahs'. I always wanted a song with those in.

Stuart Adamson Big Country

• Song
• Wanted
• To Do

Sometimes the human race is given absolutely marvellous gifts, and we take those gifts and squander them just because we are human beings. This is all about that.

Stuart Adamson Big Country

• Human
• Gifts
• Squander

Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can live, and breathe, and see the sun in wintertime.

Stuart Adamson Big Country

• Flower
• Breathe
• Grow

I wanted to write a very anathematic pop song. If you had to choose one great thing in your life, what would it be?

Stuart Adamson Big Country

• Song
• Write
• Choose

I was writing a contemporary take on Paul's vision of Christ on the road to Damascus, but with a guy driving a Bus load of tourists.

Stuart Adamson Big Country

• Writing
• Vision
• Christ

One of the pieces I'm most satisfied with.

Stuart Adamson Big Country

• Pieces
• Satisfied

... this song is all about a woman who has lost someone near and dear to her.

Stuart Adamson Big Country

• Song
• Lost
• Woman

There was romance and reality truth and dare. People being people, no hero's, just you and me like it always is. We learned how we are together and how we come apart. Life happens.

Stuart Adamson Big Country

• Life
• Truth
• Reality