Songs Quotes
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“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?
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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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There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.
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I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of... I guess 'hope' is the right word?
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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!
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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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Bob Marley songs are my songs. These are the songs that have been passed on to me. Let me say, I wear my family crest, and I represent my family to the fullest.
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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've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.
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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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And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
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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 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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I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.
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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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My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.
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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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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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We already had all the songs, and it turns out all you have to do is burn them to some CDs, so why not?
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I was a late-bloomer. For so long I was too focused on running Wolf World to sign up to play a few songs, raise a few dollars.
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I don't analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
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Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.
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The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.
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We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.
