Song Quotes
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I embrace everybody, but you work everybody and each song at a time to who it is for. I believe that's how you build a palace. You build a palace one block at a time and then you'll have what you want. That's how it goes.
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I enjoy albums, not a song here and there. The recordings I like have been a soundtrack to a universe.
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I just listen to quite random songs; I don't like really particular artists or bands.
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Walk through this with me. Through this church birthed of blood and muscle where every move our arms take, every breath we swallow is worship. Bend with me. There are bones in our throats. If we choke it is only on songs.
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Music has changed. You can just throw songs out on iTunes song by song; you don't have to do a whole album.
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In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.
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What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?
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I really felt like 'Chandelier' was a big pop song. But we weren't sure what would happen if I wasn't willing to show my face and do promo and go on tour and do the traditional kind of pop strategy. So I had no expectations.
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It's always hard for me to put the pieces together when listening to a finished album that I was a part of writing and playing. There are so many memories wrapped up in each note and each song that it's hard not to constantly flash back to what made that musical event happen while listening.
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My goal is that when the last song is over, and you're walking back to the parking lot, you're already on your phone searching to find the next show.
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When I'm having a song-in-the-shower moment, I go to 'The Blessed Unrest' by Sara Bareilles.
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I got this book called 'How to Write the Popular Song.' I read that and went through all the things they suggested, and I learned how to do it.
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When I was young, I remember the first song I danced to was 'Akhiyan Milaon,' because I am a big fan of Madhuri Dixit.
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'Hold On' is such an important song to me personally.
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The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.
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I get a lot of shit because I put "I" in the lyrics all the time. The "I" is always for someone else... When I say "I," it's so that when that person is singing along with the song, it empowers them.
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What inspires me is anxiety and the quest to try to change things in my life. ...I got addicted to endings and beginnings and to the idea of always moving around. ...Obviously, whenever you're going through something that's the best time to create, if you're going through something amazing, or horrible, or nothing at all you should be creating. Unfortunately the songwriters of today generally torture themselves to make sure they're writing good songs and take it a little too seriously.
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That's the miracle of music. No one can reinterpret a Picasso, but a song can be remixed and covered and interpreted in an infinite number of ways. It's a living thing.
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Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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I've definitely read interviews with people where they've explained exactly what they wrote something about and I've been like: "Oh no, I was thinking that was a really beautiful love song or a really sad thing."
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The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art. Once you begin to phrase finely, you will feel more joy in the beautiful finish of a beautiful phrase than that caused by the loudest applause of an immense audience. The latter excites for a moment; the former endures forever.
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I go to restaurants and the groups always play 'Yesterday.' I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us 'Yesterday.' He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing 'I Am The Walrus.'
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I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say.
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Most Americans have probably heard the song 'Santa Claus Is Coming to Town' about a billion times in the supermarket alone.
