Songs Quotes
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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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The live thing is separate from the record for me. I have to figure out a way to make the songs work live. It's always going to be different than it is on a record, because every record I've made, there are people playing parts on there that are not going to be coming on tour with me. As much as still feeling connected to it, it's more like rediscovering.
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My favorite record of all time is Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. It's made up of a bunch of songs that don't really sound the same, but they all go really well together.
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I'm a bit of a book worm, so a lot of the songs I write are inspired by books.
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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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Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.
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I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
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We can guarantee you that 15 to 30 seconds of any of our songs are going to be good. The rest, we can't guarantee.
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In my concerts, I'm always doing new songs, so someone seeing me for the first time or many times before will be pleasantly surprised and hopefully entertained.
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One of those Christmas songs says, "You better not shout, you better not cry, you better not pout." How's my wife going to get along?
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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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Songs are able to transport us all back to specific moments within our past, invoking people, places, feelings and emotions.
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Look for things marked positive to you, like songs, because all dem things are right.
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Sometimes when you sing someone else's song over and over again or songs that have been given to you, you're afraid to go out there and write one yourself.
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Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturned love; But now I think there is no unreturned love—the pay is certain, one way or another; (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not returned; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)
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Bob Dylan - I will listen to any of his songs over and over.
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I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.
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There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.
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Contrary to popular belief, maybe, I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people. And I'm not really super impressed even if you're my hero; I can just rap with you and we can hang. I'm not gonna like sit there and bite my lip and ask questions about certain songs - okay I might do that once or twice. But it's just, like, two people hanging out.
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I remember writing ‘All I Want Is You' and hoping it would get me out of trouble. I haven't stopped writing songs or getting into trouble since.
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'The Ways of a Woman in Love' is one of my very favorite early Johnny Cash songs. I like the way the lyric talks about the character walking by the girl's house and wishing he was the one in her arms.
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Songs: What if for the next three hundred years, we sang about love and justice which has been defined by philosopher Cornel West as “what love looks like in public” as much as we’ve sung about sin and forgiveness over the last three hundred years? Imagine if every week God were praised and worshipped above all as the source and epitome of love.
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It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.
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I can blame a lot of things for not writing songs, but cancer isn't one of them.
