Songs Quotes
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My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song.
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I always use the Rolling Stones as the whipping boy for this, but they still play old songs as 90% of their set, and we would die if that were the case.
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It's going to be an external player, I'm not joking, five songs, and its hopefully going to be out in April.
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People get a real kick out of hearing our songs with an orchestra. It makes you feel like you're in a movie with unexpected bursts of energy. It's really kind of psychedelic in a way.
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It's a really common trap to want your life to live up to some standard that you believe in, and then you start to really examine those standards and realize they come not from experiences you've had, but things you've seen in movies, or feelings you've felt listening to pop songs, or ideas you've received from reading books. And not just happy things, but a lot of the time, sad things. It gets kind of depressing, when you see how movies and songs make these promises to us.
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I reckon we'll play the majority of the record and then we'll probably end the set with some of the older stuff that we can include improvisation on. I think the game plan is to play all the new stuff as individual songs, unless something opens up and we recognise it as a spot to fool around with.
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Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.
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There's spiritual content in a lot of my songs. It comes from trying to be honest about the issues of life. But it also comes more in the form of asking questions than giving answers.
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When songs make me wanna throw up, it makes me ashamed to even be in the same genre as those songs.
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It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.
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The first group of songs which I give, on any program, are songs which I sing to please myself. They represent my musical taste.
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It wasn’t verbal learning lessons… it was harnessing the broad strokes of the songs.
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Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.
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A lot of these songs were written for our first album. One of them, Shuffle Your Feet, was from before we were a band even. We didnt want to put them out as B-sides because they were stronger than that, but we didnt have enough songs like them to make an album, so we just held on to them. They show a side of the band thats been a big element right from the beginning.
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I'm giving my fans the songs that they want to hear from me. Why do we love to hear ourselves being downgraded. Why do we love to hear the negative situations that we see in our lives daily? I'm not trying to make sense of it, I'm not giving any solutions, I'm just tossing the question.
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If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.
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I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls, or anything.
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I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours.
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If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.
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We write songs that hit different people at different ages where they live.
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So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.
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When George Harrison died the guards at Buckingham Palace played a medley of George's songs during the changing of the guard; that sort of thing never happens.
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I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write.
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When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
