Songs Quotes
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Songs are usually unfit for whistling - indeed, whistling (except to the person doing it) is unbearable.
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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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When I was 10, I would hear songs like "I Love You Always Forever" by Donna Lewis on the radio, and I want to make stuff that a 10 year old might hear coming out of the radio and think, "Yeah! I love this!"
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I'd sell one of my songs for any car commercial in the world that paid enough money. But to stay in the Top Ten for weeks on end when I'm in my forties by letting Glen Ballard write songs for me? F**k that.
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I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film.
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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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I’ll get a glimmer of an idea and the rest is just chipping away. It’s a long process, and most of my music undergoes many changes over the weeks or months that I’m writing. The songs change during touring, too, but the recording process always comes first.
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I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me - who I write about too - they get it. It's my creative outlet, my therapy.
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Some songs are all so detailed and in-depth that it takes forever to finish them.
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The mixture of electronics and guitars was a positive thing that made the songs stay with people.
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“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?
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A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things, things that you can't touch - ghosts and rumors, my dead grandmother, things visiting you in a dream.
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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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No matter how well a band performs, if its songs are a pile of junk, the group might as well not put the effort into it.
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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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I would say the songs that have different lyrics. I always write the music first, and there's a couple of songs on this box set that have different lyrics from what ended up on the final recording.
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I think you’re hard pressed to find another group that had as many facets to them as we did, and going through the songs now there’s an unlimited variety of everything from quasi showtunes to fake speed metal. God almighty, what were we trying to prove?
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The best songs are the ones about Georgia, even though I've never been there. It's the only place I still believe in Jesus.
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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.
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With Kevin Drew, as I said, in his own way just told me "You gotta find that person that talks to you in your songs." I think we succeeded. I feel relief, to be quite honest with you.
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We’ll rehearse as much as we can and as many songs as we can.
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I don't get into the favorite songs thing, because so many speak to different parts of my life, but the music in the '90s is just unbeatable.
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I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.
