Song Quotes
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To me, our signature song was 'Rosanna.' That was the ultimate Toto track, where everybody had a chance to shine.
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If a new artist wants to put out some sort of off-the-wall, crazy deep ballad about the sun or whatever, it might be hard to get traction. It's so much easier for someone established to put out a really heartfelt, deep song and get it played in radio.
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For me, with the Blue Man Group, I got asked. It was for the Royal Variety Show, which was something I always wanted to be a part of. I'm really interested in things people don't necessarily expect. I did a pop song, but I did it in my own style.
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Writing songs is no different than explaining to somebody what you dreamed last night: No one ever gives you crap for what you dreamed last night. "I was laying in my bed, and all of a sudden a stallion jumped on my bed and the next thing I know I was in Mars but it looked like my kitchen"... That's kind of what I do with my songs, write them in a dream-like manner. It's up to people to swallow it however they want.
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'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.
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The movie - any sports movie - becomes a praise song to life here on earth, to physical existence itself, beyond striving, beyond economic necessity.
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You want the song to be at least at the same level of goodness throughout. Whereas with something you're doing live, a song dips and rises and that can actually be worked to the song's benefit.
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I wrote 'Don't Stop' just like I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' - I didn't try to make either a hit. I just wanted to write a song I liked.
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I always liked a good love song and I dig being in love.
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We wanted to make a living, but success was creating a song that we enjoyed playing. Quite honestly, that is still a measure of success for us.
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There's so much talk about the Drug Generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.
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It's got to be hard to be a band that's trading on your 40-year-old hits, where there's a certain thing that's expected of you. But that's why I admire Bob Dylan's live performances - he's steadfast about mixing up the songs, not just sticking to his greatest hits, and reinterpreting them to the extent that you really can't recognize them until halfway through. It's like, I DARE you to sing along.
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I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said.
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If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be played like an orchestra in which all instruments played the same note.
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I think the best thing for us is to just write songs that we like.
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To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.
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A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called 'True Friend'.
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There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn't made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn't yet.
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We always feel there are 3 parts to the song. The most important part is the reason it should exist. Our process usually consists of me sitting at the piano & Bob hovering over it. We throw ideas out...I start to play something...he'll hum something to make it better. He'll throw a line to me, I'll twist it to make it better and we scramble around like that for sometimes hours and days, 'til we both agree we've got something to show! That's how it works!
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If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.
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Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.
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One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist.
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I really think that the Jersey Boys musical - and this is just my opinion - lends itself to being cinematic in some way, because its a jukebox musical; the characters break into song only for the scene transitions.
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When God gives me a song, it’s always my prayer that it blesses His people. Then there are times when you see your music speak to the troubled times.
