Songs Quotes
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Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs just don't have that capacity. They're locked within a period of time. And as soon as you take them out of that period of time, they die very quickly.
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Our second single (I Need Somebody) went top 20, and to a band that never made it, that would be a success. But when you have a #1 hit song, you're held up against that. It's hard to beat. The radio stations picked up a few more songs by The Mysterians, such as Can't Get Enough Of You Baby and Do Something To Me.
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A dream set would include songs by other artists like Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, and other favorites. More obscure Heart songs like 'Wait For an Answer' and 'Nada One' would be fun, plus fan favorites like 'Love Mistake' and 'Language of Love.' Endless possibilities.
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We're called The Bravery because that's the mindset I was in when I was writing the songs...
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I love analogue tape and I love digital, they both have pluses and minuses and I don't really feel like I have to use one or the other. I love digital because it's really great for songwriting because you can just cut and move choruses around and pull chunks of songs. It's really easy to hear quickly "Oh, maybe the arrangement should be like this."
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Playing my songs is the way I cope with life.
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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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Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely' (like Radiohead); it's 'lonely lonely,' like the way it feels when you're being hugged by someone and it somehow makes you sadder.
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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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Even though I hate acting, I love doing videos for my songs.
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Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.
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Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars.
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It was more about getting together with other musicians and playing live. I needed to suss out a full set for the Last Summer tour, and I didn't want to play Fiery Furnaces material. So half of our set was new songs that we ended up recording for this album. And that made such a huge difference - going into the studio after playing a song for two years, knowing it inside-out and having sung it millions of times, and then recording it is a totally satisfying experience. You're suddenly in this controlled environment and you can make it sound exactly as you've been imagining it.
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Songs hold different memories for different people and the great ones are the ones that become a part of you and your story.
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I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.
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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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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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I grew up writing songs in my room on GarageBand, and I would make the beats just out of layering my vocals over and over again. Very Imogen Heap-inspired.
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Some of the songs I have completely forgotten about. It's a lot of fun to go and revisit them.
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Let there be songs to fill the air.
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You become acutely aware, if you're touring a lot, that you need new songs to invigorate the live show. And make it interesting for yourself, too.
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I think Badfinger was the epitome of that type of music before the power pop term was coined. 'No Matter What" is always gonna be a great song on the radio. There?s probably two or three others off their records that are as cool like 'Day After Day'.
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I was writing songs because I needed them, songs about trusting God in difficult circumstances.
