Songs Quotes
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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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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 strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.
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When I was a mailman, writing songs was my escape from the regular world, and now writing songs is my job. And I've always been one to avoid my job.
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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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I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.
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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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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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Steve produced Girls Grow Up Faster Than Boys and one more. Then he and I wrote a few songs together and became good friends. He was a talented producer.
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The real task was to write songs that were believably bad. It was one of the best jobs I've ever had in
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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 tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.
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I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.
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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 think it's just that Skynyrd songs are timeless.
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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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Most songs come from things that have happened, experience from everyday life – but sometimes it's just fantasy or something I’ve made up. As if I see a movie playing in my head.
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My songs are like my kids.
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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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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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I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.
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A lot of the songs that we're playing live we haven't played in like 20 years
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One of the most harmful things in the music industry is 'record-by-committee,' where 10 people from the label gather around, and they make you write a 100 songs and decide which one's a hit. That takes the inspiration out of it.
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There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled.
