Songs Quotes
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When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can't force them to like it.
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I released that I could crank out a song if I practiced it a lot. If I am in the practice of writing songs everyday or every other day, getting ideas and following through with them, and not just saying "I've got this idea, but I will get to it at some point." If I actually sit down and not be lazy, and follow through with it then you just get in the practice of doing things. It feels very productive, and then it gets a lot easier, because you are working the muscle in your brain. The "song-writing muscle" so to speak.
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What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.
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In my songs, I try to look through someone else's eyes, and I want to give the audience a feeling more than a message.
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Writing songs used to be my hobby; it used to be my getaway.
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I have confidence in the songs that I've written and I'm not going to change anything.
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Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out loud of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards. And people will say: 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring' and they'll say 'Oh yes, that's one of my favorite stories.
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I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.
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And in the mean time my songs will travel, And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them when they have got over the strangeness
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Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.
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I do believe we should push each other to write better songs and make better music. We do ourselves a disservice if we sit back and float along the river instead of trying to paddle and guide ourselves to a more creative place.
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There are a shitload of songs about being in love with someone who doesn't love you back and I talk about weed and my cat and being lazy a lot.
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I am a true believer that a record should not be a bunch of songs that sound exactly the same.
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I was in a party band in the early '80s, and we played Sabbath and Ozzy songs as well as Rush and Van Halen... all that kinds of stuff.
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Songs are able to transport us all back to specific moments within our past, invoking people, places, feelings and emotions.
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It's an amalgamation of the different types of shows I've done. There will be some songs where I'm playing solo on the more acoustic tunes and others will be full-blown, plugged-in rock-out numbers. So the show will be done in many stages.
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It's hard to think back. I didn't even know I was going to do it, make actual records. But I was always making up songs, once I figured out that you could do it. I think it's pretty much the same, but there's less urge to get it moving out there. There was a time when it seemed like it was really super important to the audience and now it's just medium-important for people to like us. But that's okay.
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Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting for the rescuing dawn - or for the Moors. Something, I know not what, lent this night a savor of Christmas. We told stories, we joked, we sang songs. In the air there was that slight fever that reigns over a gaily prepared feast. And yet we were infinitely poor. Wind, sand, and stars. The austerity of Trappists. But on this badly lighted cloth, a handful of men who possessed nothing in the world but their memories were sharing invisible riches.
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Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.
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The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.
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Sometimes things fall in your lap and sometimes you really carve them out. I've found that songs I really like can happen both ways. I've also been trying to learn when to step away and take a break and when to keep pushing through. For me it's a delicate balance of staying inspired and staying consistent, and I'm still trying to figure it out.
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I used to feel that if I wasn't living out my songs, I wasn't doing myself or my craft justice, and that's a dangerous way to live because then you become what you make.
