Songs Quotes

• 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.

  

  Michael Nesmith The Monkees
  • People
  • Notion
  • Collection

• 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.

  

  John Prine
  • World
  • Job
  • Escape

• Your youth is the most important thing you will ever have. It's when you will connect to music like a primal urge, and the memories attached to the songs will never leave you. Please hold on to everything. Keep every note, mix tape, concert ticket stub, and memory you have of music from your youth. It'll be the one thing that might keep you young, even if you aren't anymore.

  

  Butch Walker
  • Music
  • Songs
  • Youth

• As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Long
  • Strong
  • Style

• 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.

  

  Eric Carmen
  • Band
  • Songs
  • Growing Up

• If we found some other dude, to sing I'd love to move on. Write some cool tunes and change the name and go on like that. I don't see continuing as Alice and replacing somebody. We're not trying to replace Layne. We want to play these songs one more time, and if it seems like the right thing to do, it'll happen. I don't know how long it will go or where it will take us. It's kind of a tribute to Layne and our fans, the people who love these songs. It's not some 'I'm broke and I need the money' situation. We love playing together.

  

  Sean Howard Kinney Alice in Chains
  • Songs
  • Tribute
  • Tunes

• I loved the culture of the youth ministry. It was exciting and there were lots of young people, and they were just excited about God. We had this thought that we wanted to write songs that our friends and the people in our youth ministry would love to sing and would love to use to draw near to God, and that’s basically how it all got started.

  

  Jad Gillies
  • God
  • Songs
  • Ministry

• As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them.

  

  Eric Bachmann
  • Write
  • Songs
  • Producer

• I never put myself in a box. I like to have various different types of songs and different genres and situational songs. No matter is going on, I have something for that time or era.

  

  Adrian Marcel
  • Songs
  • Box
  • Genres

• 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.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• 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.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Inspiration
  • Record
  • Music Industry

• The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.

  

  Ronnie Dunn Brooks & Dunn
  • Music
  • Songs

• Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It's a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand. And you can be anyone you want: you can be as grandiose as you want or you can be as down in the gutter as you want. It's just sort of whatever emotional freeway you're on at the time.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Control

• 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.

  

  Robby Krieger The Doors
  • Songs
  • Album
  • Skeletons

• 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.

  

  Jimmy Griffin Black Tie
  • Friends
  • Songs
  • Producer

• I think one of the most important things when I was learning how to do that was finding songs that I liked that had guitar solos in them and trying to figure out how to play those because even if it wasn’t me playing along to a previously recorded Dropkick Murphys solo I was, at least, learning how to play like that.

  

  Tim Brennan Dropkick Murphys
  • Learning
  • Songs
  • Playing

• 'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Sweet
  • Handful
  • Urban Renewal

• My songs are like my kids.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Songs

• I hate making videos. Songs are not visual. You get it out of the air. You don't watch it on MTV.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Hate
  • Air
  • Videos

• With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius, as far as I was concerned, were not that.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Songs
  • Genius
  • Carry

• 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.

  

  Jules Shear
  • Songs
  • Guitar
  • Tempo

• I'm just a wee, chubby boy that happens to sing songs.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Boy
  • Songs

• A lot of the songs that we're playing live we haven't played in like 20 years

  

  Mick Mars Mötley Crüe
  • Live
  • Songs
  • Playing

• 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.

  

  Liam Gallagher Oasis
  • Respect
  • Persons
  • Songs

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