Songs Quotes
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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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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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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'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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I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.
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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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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 the best songs are, I think, the easiest write because they just come out.
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I'm just a wee, chubby boy that happens to sing songs.
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You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap - and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and 'Heart Shaped Box' and stuff on 'In Utero' just happened that way.
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The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa.
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With our first record, we wrote concept songs but not a concept record.
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We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.
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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.
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All my songs mean something to me.
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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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As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them.
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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 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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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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The most incredible thing about playing the songs live for people - looking out to the crowd and seeing the different reactions and the different heart-strings and the things that people are relating to that mean something to them, that's crazy.
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I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a better meaning than I thought, and perfectly valid, given the words that exist.' So part of what makes a song really good is that people take in different meanings, and they apply them, and they might be more powerful than the ones I'm thinking.
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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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My songs is hard stuff which politicians don't want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.
