Songs Quotes
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Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.
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The real task was to write songs that were believably bad. It was one of the best jobs I've ever had in
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I used to make my grandparents pay a dollar to watch me sing 'Grease' songs and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in their living room. I was always an entertainer, and I would always do all that stuff, but it slowly evolved into a career, which is great, but it wasn't a plan.
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A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That's the kind of world I live in. It's very sort of flamboyant, and that's the kind of way I write. I love it.
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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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Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along the endless marching columns, and for the last time the Lord's grace smiled on His ungrateful children.
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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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My songs is hard stuff which politicians don't want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.
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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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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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After playing so many songs in churches for eight or nine years, I've learned what songs people react to. Then I just had fun with the arrangements. That's how this album came together.
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There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.
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We’ll rehearse as much as we can and as many songs as we can.
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When I was first starting out, I drove myself around the country in my Honda Civic, playing anywhere that would have me. This is a chance to strip the songs down to their roots and let the audience hear them the way I write them.
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Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it to warm up a lot.
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You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.
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Love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told.
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The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.
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It's ignorant! The stereotype is guys that are weak and have failing relationships write about how sad they are. If you listen to our songs, not one of them has that tone. Emo is bullshit! If people want to take it for the literal sense of the word, then yes, we're an emotional band, we put a lot of thought into what we do. People always try to stereotype us, but we don't fit the emo stereotype.
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You don't want your kids to hear songs of this nature... But you take em to the movies to watch Schwarzenegger!
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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 One Direction are the biggest band in the world, their songs are great,
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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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We can't wait to play our new songs live
