Songs Quotes
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With the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, this is the Eisenhower-era revisited. It's ostrich time, where people are looking for comfort rather than challenge in their art. It's a lot easier to listen to Barry Manilow murder what are actually good songs from the '50s than to consider what [left-leaning songwriter] Steve Earle has to say.
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Maybe the songs that we sing are wrong, Maybe the dreams that we dream are gone, So bring it on home and it won't be long, It's getting better man!
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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 did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used bits of it in the film. It would be nice to score a movie one day.
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I was so young when the Killers started. I was 21. I'm proud of those songs, but there's no way I would write 'Somebody Told Me,' as I get older. Especially after having kids.
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I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.
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I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93.
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As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equation for language and pass on their experiments as poetry.
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We cut songs that touch us because if they don't touch us first, there's no way in the world we're going to be able to sell those songs to somebody else.
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I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all.
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There's lots of bands where somebody will write lyrics and somebody else will sing them. It works for a lot of people, but that feels weird to me. I don't mean this in a bad way at all but it just feels fake.. I guess in my heart of hearts, whether the person has a good voice or not I want the songs to come from them. I don't know why.
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I just think it's good to have a big, living, breathing piece of music that's not just songs.
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I think 'Bittersweet' is one of the best songs ever written. The idea of it just really spoke to me.
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It's not crazy to want to have certain songs be developed harmonically and still want to make noise with the guitar. And you can have both.
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My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.
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I think for many songwriter/performers, you need to go off by yourself and write the songs to begin with, but then you need people to bring them to life. So you have to be comfortable with solitude and also with being very social.
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This music has been around since before the beard on Moses. I happed to do it very well and I happen to have a lot of groovy songs that I know people are going to dig. I know more about it than you do.
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The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling.
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I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.
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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 love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding.
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On my songs, they always start on the Voyager and I start with a simple loop and build it up from there. I usually give the whole thing to Erin finished, often with lyrics and she makes the vocal melody work with the song.
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I always sang Leona Lewis covers, and if you know her songs, she's not just singing your average easy song; she's going off the majority of the time.
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Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of Bob Dylan's best songs came from Scotland, Ireland or England. It was a sort of cultural exchange.
