Song Quotes
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I'm on the phone with this guy, and he says to me, 'People compare you to Bruce Springsteen. I don't think you've written a song as good as 'Dancing in the Dark' or 'I'm on Fire.'' And all I could think was, 'Me neither!'
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I never thought that I would have the No 1 song in the world.
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True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best.
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Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.
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I think that it's so powerful for me to go see someone like Bridget Everett at Joe's Pub and watch her weave her songs in and out of these funny, tragic stories - you can talk and sing and it's not this horrible offense, you're going to get thrown in artistic jail.
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We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side.
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I have about 100 gigs of music, and I'm always going through thinking about what song I can match to a scene and all that.
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I never really liked Minor Threat. Actually, I kind of thought they sucked. And then Daniel came into practice one day and said, 'Oh, let's play a song it's called Minor Threat.' And I just thought, 'I don't want to play that fucking song!' And then I said, 'Yeah, I will do it.' And then we were playing it. And it's, like, grand and I ended loving this song and started listening to more of their stuff. I love them and they are great.
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From a guitar player's point of view it's generally harder writing parts to songs than finding a part to base a song on.
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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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I don't want to write the same song over and over again.
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Nobody ever knows how big a song is going to be.
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If you're bored of the songs, you're bored of the songs. There's not much you can do.
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I try not to think about the idea of reaching more and more people, because once you get in that mindset, I think you lose the point of why you're doing it in the first place. Still, the best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.
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As far as the bands that are reforming now, it's always nice to see old friends and hear some of those great songs, but it's just not our thing.
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I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.
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Every artist and every song has an idea, and the producer's job is to capture it.
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'Freebird' is an anthem, and 'Simple Man' is a very nice song.
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Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.
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When I'm recording something (especially because I produce my own music) I might consider how hard it would be to replicate a song on stage.
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Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.
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'Feel It Still' came around pretty much as organically as you can put a song together.
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Sometimes I have thought that a song should look disappointing on the page - a little thin, perhaps, a little repetitive, or a little on the obvious side, or a mixture of all of these things.
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We have a song like 'Ready to Love Again' that is really, really special to me. It's the one that I relate to the most. It's very personal, so we really allowed ourselves to go there and be vulnerable and show the fans that we feel and we hurt and we love just like anybody else does. I hope they feel that when they hear it.
