Songs Quotes
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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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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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But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.
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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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I'm just so honored to be able to travel around the world and play songs.
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I started out in the folk music world only because of the way my songs were written and performed, with just an acoustic guitar, but I always related to the rock n' roll lifestyle.
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With our first record, we wrote concept songs but not a concept record.
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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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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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“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?
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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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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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When I do my solo concerts, I'm used to being on the stage for two hours solid, singing 16 songs. And when I did 'Funny Thing,' I was on the stage the whole time. This is much more difficult. It's the difference between racing and sprinting. This is sprinting. And I have to learn to pace myself.
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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 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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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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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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the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.
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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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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.
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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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The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
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I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film.
