Songs Quotes
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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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I can go from doing an electronic track to hip-hop to even folk songs. I think people like that variety in me.
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I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.
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I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of 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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We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.
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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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We can't wait to play our new songs live
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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 was a very lucky set of incidents that led to Wham! getting a record contract - although we weren't Wham! when we got the record contract. We were nothing; we were just two friends who had written a few songs.
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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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I have sung some songs in Telugu and Malayalam. And I want to sing in Tamil, too.
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Even though I hate acting, I love doing videos for my songs.
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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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Lynyrd Skynyrd has always been about writing songs and talking to people through them. That's what we do, and that's what we'll keep doing for as long as we can.
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The songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters.
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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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I didn't form a group to perform Cilla Black songs.
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When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.
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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'm interested in feedback and learning what people want. It's a tricky thing for me when I do a set list. You get bored doing the same songs. Let's say we do one ballad in two hours, and it's "Wild Horses." If you say, I'm tired of that, let's try something less well known, and then you're out there stumbling through this song you just relearned at sound check, and you realize people probably want "Wild Horses" instead of this. You do need to do some songs that aren't so well known. The question is how many? I'm open to people posting their requests.
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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 wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.
