Songs Quotes
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We’ll rehearse as much as we can and as many songs as we can.
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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 just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.
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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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I have sung some songs in Telugu and Malayalam. And I want to sing in Tamil, too.
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I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.
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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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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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In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.
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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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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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I love it. I'd do it again any time, and I'm sure we'll do it for other records. It was awesome. We met cool people and got some really good songs out of it.
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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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My songs are like my kids.
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...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.
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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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I've always written songs to use music as a form of therapy or as a way to look at my obstacles or my memories from a different perspective. It's always helped me realize the grass isn't always greener and how I need to live more in the moment. My songwriting is a documentation of whatever's happening in my life at that point in time.
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I think it's just that Skynyrd songs are timeless.
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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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The songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters.
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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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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 don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.
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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.
