Songs Quotes
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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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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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I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of Bjork. Sometimes I get so emotional because she's so amazing.
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They The Beatles were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs before that.
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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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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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I was writing songs because I needed them, songs about trusting God in difficult circumstances.
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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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That's what we all hope and dream to do, when we stand in front of the mirror with our Goody comb and sing into it, is to have a bunch of songs that have touched people so much that they want to hear 'em every night.
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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 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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We're not shy about using that name to get people out to see us, but once they're there, we hook them in with Naked Beggars songs. But we do a few Cinderella songs.
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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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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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Some songs are all so detailed and in-depth that it takes forever to finish them.
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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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“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?
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I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.
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When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did it: me on the piano, playing a couple of songs I'd written and talking to the people in between. That's how I got my performance chops up.
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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.
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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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I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.
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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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They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!
