Songs Quotes
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We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.
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We call them impact songs, and people buy impact songs. But you just never know what those songs are going to be. One of those songs that really went through the roof for us was 'Big Green Tractor,' which I thought was kind of a fun little ditty song that I never in a million years thought would be as big as it was. But it was.
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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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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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When we formed the band in 1970, we set out to try to write great songs like the songs we heard when we were growing up.
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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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The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.
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'One More Summer' is one of those songs that I think will go over really well.
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I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.
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I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.
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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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We’ll rehearse as much as we can and as many songs as we can.
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I don't see the songs as uplifting, but rather as trying to make lemonade from lemons, or whatever. When I listen to them, I understand the context. I don't like to pepper songs with my own experiences, though.
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We always make our records really quickly, and this time we're gonna just slow it all down. Usually we write 12 or 13 songs, and then we just record them and that's it. We'd like to write, like, 40 songs and really spend a lot more time writing than we ever have.
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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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I have sung some songs in Telugu and Malayalam. And I want to sing in Tamil, too.
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I get my inspiration for my songs and the lyrics from experiences in my life, but I'm also very inspired by the Beatles and Cyndi Lauper, as I really like their music.
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Even though there's these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there's any good riffs in them, we raped the songs and put in the new ones.
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I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.
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All the songs on the first album were like skeletons of how we really played them. It was just a combination of not having any studio experience and having to do everything so fast. I also think that studios are, by nature, limiting. You cannot get the sound of five big amplifiers on a little piece of tape.
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Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.
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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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It's like these songs are your babies and you don't want anybody to think your babies are ugly! You never really know until you throw it out there if it's gonna take. And that is a really scary and vulnerable place to be, so having those songs be embraced is the best feeling in the world. That's been our dream our whole lives.
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I respect the Stones but their songs are a pile of crap. As for U2, they don’t say a lot or seem like normal persons.
