Songs Quotes
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The focus of my playing is the groove, and every time I find a new rhythm, I find I can write a bunch of new songs. Learning how to dance, or drum, or to swing my body in a new way is the fundamental way I find a new riff. Because when you learn to swing your body in a new way, you begin to swing with your instrument differently.
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Don't think. The worst songs I've ever written happen when I think.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.
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I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.
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People know me for up – tempo songs because of my hits.
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Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.
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Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the Master: His songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster.
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Nothing in my songs is disrespective.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.
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There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
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Every battalion has its marching songs.
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When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.
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I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.
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In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.
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All my songs are where I am.
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Madonna did amazing songs. She had an amazing sense of style, without a stylist. And she was flawed, and sometimes she admitted it. I'll fight the fight for Madonna. I think she should send me some chocolates or something to thank me.
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We did some promotion work in small European clubs last summer and really enjoyed it. It gives people the chance to see you up close. We see all venues as a different challenge and we have songs that can work in all environments, even if we have to change the arrangements.
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I really don't want my daughters to know me for being that guy who sings songs.
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I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
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We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
