Songs Quotes
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Most of the parts are really gone over and over and over again with Tool. It's a very composed situation. We spend weeks if not months working on all those songs. There's not much room for improvisation.
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I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.
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To kill the misconception, I don’t think the songs we wrote before ‘Danger Days’ are bad songs by any means. In fact, I kinda think some of them are among my favorites we have ever written. A lot of them are kinda f—ing rad… they just so happened to have been created in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and we as their parents were not ready to raise them just yet… and so they sat and waited.
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I’ve experienced this as a songwriter working with, and helping develop, new artists. This is truly a page out of a new artist book that has a song that blows up and then is just trying to play catch-up. That really is the story of Chase in this first season. He’s not even thinking about who he is as an artist, he’s being told and given these songs.
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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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Sometimes, songs spill out of you very fast, and sometimes you have to wrangle them to the floor. But the same thing is true of comedy, where sometimes it really flows.
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Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for all of these reasons – but ultimately the love songs exist to fill, with language, the silence between ourselves and God, to decrease the distance between the temporal and the divine.
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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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My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm writing songs.
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She sang a lot of songs. 'The Bear Went Over the Mountain' and things like that. But the one she was really good at singing was 'I Found a Peanut.' Now I know why she sang that so many times.
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For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."
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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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Songs don't really feel like me unless I somehow shed a little secret or open myself somehow or be vulnerable. When I'm singing these songs, it feels like me, and that comes with the vulnerabilities and the strengths and the moments of triumph or whatever.
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There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would like them to be more personal. The emotions, the songs themselves are personal. I can't do it - I've tried to write personally and it just doesn't seem to work. It would be too obvious. Some things that you could read in could fit into anyone's life that had any amount of pain at all. It's pretty cliche'.
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People really respond to the songs when I play them in concert. Every song comes from a different place emotionally or from a different headspace.
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Music is to be praised as second only to the Word of God because by her all the emotions are swayed. That is why there are so many songs and psalms. This precious gift has been bestowed on men alone to remind them that they are created to praise and magnify the Lord.
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It was really important to us to strip back the songs to the way that they were written. The way that I think music brings us together, like we’re in the living room, so I can kind of push the walls down. And especially with some of these more sensitive songs, and to present them in that raw acoustic way was a really exciting way to introduce the new music.
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I don't disrespect the audience. I only sing very well-written, intelligent songs.
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I had a guitar sitting around, and it just happened to have four strings on it, and I would sit around watching TV and playing it. I ended up writing bunches of songs around four strings.
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I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.
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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.
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Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
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People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.
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Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along with a story, like I do in life, just talking to myself and making fun of stuff and laughing at stuff that's serious. And sometimes it's a good idea to put the laughing into the songs. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's all right just to be serious. But most of the songs have some kind of joke in them.
