Songs Quotes
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I hate making videos. Songs are not visual. You get it out of the air. You don't watch it on MTV.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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The songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters.
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I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.
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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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A lot of the songs that we're playing live we haven't played in like 20 years
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'One More Summer' is one of those songs that I think will go over really well.
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I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth.
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I really don't know. His lyrics are pretty out there. Daniel's lyrics are pretty personal. They are mostly personal things, and I don't really know what they are all about. All of us are a band and I still don't have a clue what the hell he's on about! But I don't care. I like his lyrics and I think they are really good. I don't think it's the happiest stuff in the world. It's like in some of the songs, it's got dark music as well as the dark lyrics.
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All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.
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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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We can't wait to play our new songs live
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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.
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The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.
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I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.
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I just love going out and playing my brother's songs.
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People say, "How do you write songs?" I say, "Patience." I may have a track that's hot, but no words. I'll just let it sit for years, because I know they're going to meet. They'll find it.
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I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.
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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.
