Songs Quotes
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Once, when I got some of the songs back from him, it was around Christmas time, and it was the best Christmas present I could have wished for -- really, really exciting.
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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 wasn't personally that familiar with the Classic Rock bands. That is where Jorn Viggo came in: he played me tons of that stuff - Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, plus a lot of bands with cool songs, riffs, vocals, etc. We really listened to tons of music.
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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 prefer playing with a band. It's good to do both, but for me it's quite exciting when I hear my songs completely transformed with the band behind me. You can really get into it more, and so can the audience.
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Everything felt more personal this time. I go back to songs we've done in the past and there's just more maturity, depth, intelligence on these. They just feel more grown-up.
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I would have to work on the song and figure out how they wanted the song done, because they're such high-intensity songs. We figure that out first, then I go back and listen to it and go over and rehearse stuff with it and try to get a feel for the words.
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I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part - a lot of jumping from really quiet to really loud.
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One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.
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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 don’t get sick of either of those songs. When we play them, they get such a huge enthusiastic response – how can you get sick of that?? And I think they are both good songs, interesting to perform – we develop them live all the time.
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I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of 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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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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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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When you put a new show out, you always have a few kinks that you need to iron out, and you need to dial your show in. You figure out over a couple of weeks what songs work well together and what songs may not have the impact you thought they would at that spot in the show.
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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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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 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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We write a batch of songs and they come out as they come out. It’s not preconceived. It just turns out there are loads of epics on this album. We have high standards for what we want to achieve, but it’s not really well thought-out at all. We allow ourselves a six week writing period to give us enough pressure to bring it out.
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Let there be songs to fill the air.
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I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.
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I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth.
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I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs.
