Songs Quotes
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Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.
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I'm not particularly worried by any of the songs we've written in the past, except for some of the really early stuff which is total tripe.
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People are always surprised to find this out, but the songs that we write, such as 'Winner of a Losing Game' and things like that, tend to be more country than the other stuff that we cut from outside writers.
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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.
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You know, the songs that are self-conscious or jerky, they are that way, but the other ones aren't, so that's a good thing. Some of the songs are Beck-jokey, but the others, they have heart in them.
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I think of myself as a singer. The acting is just something I have to do between songs.
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I'll always be making music. I'd like to do it my whole life - although I also love words and want to write short stories. But right now, my songs are kind of my short stories.
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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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When I do my solo concerts, I'm used to being on the stage for two hours solid, singing 16 songs. And when I did 'Funny Thing,' I was on the stage the whole time. This is much more difficult. It's the difference between racing and sprinting. This is sprinting. And I have to learn to pace myself.
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All my songs minor, that’s the key to your heart.
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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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Quit shouting those rerun songs at me.
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People like to say their songs are like children, but you gotta get those kids out there so they can make some money and pay the rent.
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When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.
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The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.
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That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.
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Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy.
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I wanted to protect the songs. I wanted to make sure I could write freely and not be self-conscious about it.
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You write in songs what you're too scared to write in real life, and then you sing the songs to loads of people instead of telling it to the person you should be telling it to... Songs are a great way of dealing with those issues but kind of a coward's way as well.
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I find the songs that have the most human components in production are the ones that will stand the test of time.
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I've learned a lot about being in control of your career - and that being positive and believing in yourself goes a very long way. And creatively, the music needs to sound like it's come from you, not someone else who's choosing the songs for you.
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I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.
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I like songs that are simple.
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You can be whoever you want to be when you are writing songs.
