Songs Quotes
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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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You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.
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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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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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A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen.
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I feel like our songs are a journey.
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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 normally joke around between songs to alleviate some of the heaviness - for the crowd, but also for myself. Tonight I just didn’t have that side of it in me.
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I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there and make this a record for mass consumption, this was really just a way for me to get out of my own situation and reclaim that part of myself - so when making the songs, I wanted a testament to what I'd gone through, I wanted a snapshot of those moments.
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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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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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You become acutely aware, if you're touring a lot, that you need new songs to invigorate the live show. And make it interesting for yourself, too.
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Love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told.
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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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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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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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The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.
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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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We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.
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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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I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.
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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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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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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.
