Songs Quotes
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The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation.
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I don't really know where the songs are coming from often. Many of the best things I made up were just off the top of my head.
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I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.
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Playing new songs at festivals is weird, obviously. People at festivals are always a bit drunk, and probably just want to hear stuff they know by bands they love, or are checking you out and don't know your stuff very well.
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I sing the songs that people need to hear.
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When you put a new show out, you always have a few kinks that you need to iron out, and you need to dial your show in. You figure out over a couple of weeks what songs work well together and what songs may not have the impact you thought they would at that spot in the show.
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The songs we sing invite the participation of the listener, who is central to finding a way of creating the life of the song at that listening. It's the difference between poetry and didactic writing. One tells you, 'This is it,' and the other says, 'Let's find this together.'
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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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To me, there are 3 parts of the album process: writing, recording, and my favorite part: getting to sing the songs with the fans every night.
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I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
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When I was young there was a bunch of girls that was really scared and that's why I made these songs and I would love to scare them.
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I'm grateful to be alive, because I really did not think I was going to be alive, onstage performing songs.
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When you first start a band all you think about and spend your time doing is writing songs, play shows, in the simplest way and the simplest formation of the band. It's about the gear, and that guitar that one day you will buy. It's a beautiful time. I'm grateful for having that time. Then life flips upside down, all of a sudden you are strapped to a rocket ship, you get a hit, then it is tough to keep grounded.
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As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them.
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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
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They write songs about California girls for a reason.
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My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.
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Taken together, our songs are like a mural of our lives.
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But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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We've always been trying to climb this ladder that leans so hard on our own idea of what our big songs are. We realized recently that we're not a band with big songs.
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When we first started out we only had five or six songs we could play live, so if we ever got an encore, we used to do our cover of City High's 'What Would You Do?' We'd be playing it and people's mouths would be moving singing all the words, but they'd be thinking, Where is this song from? It's such a brilliant pop song but the lyrics are so dark.
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Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.
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The Black Parade only has two songs left. Then you'll have to deal with the likes of My Chemical Romance. Personally...I think their language is atrocious and they don't know how to dress.
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I think she could have infused even Spice Girls songs with a touch of melancholy. (On Billie Holiday)
