Songs Quotes
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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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To take part in the African revolution, it is not enough to write a revolutionary song. You must fashion the revolution with the people. And if you fashion it with the people, the songs will come by themselves.
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I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.
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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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Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners.
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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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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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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 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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I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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With our first record, we wrote concept songs but not a concept record.
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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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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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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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All my songs mean something to me.
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For years we've been playing and writing songs that sound happy. And yet if you listen, the words are all like "My brains are falling out of my ears; would someone please pull me together?"
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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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Let there be songs to fill the air.
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I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.
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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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It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.
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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 analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
