Song Quotes
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The Song Remains The Same is not a great film, but there's no point in making excuses. It's just a reasonably honest statement of where we were at that particular time. It's very difficult for me to watch it now, but I'd like to see it in a year's time just to see how it stands up.
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With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.
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It's a big plethora of music floating around in my head all the time, and I'll sit there and write a song.
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I usually work on a film soundtrack for two years, turning in a song every few months, and that keeps my creative energy high, because I'm constantly rotating projects. The trick is to make sure I don't work too hard and get exhausted.
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If I'm on a bus and someone makes my blood boil, I'll pocket those emotions and put them in a song.
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Without a song, each day would be a century.
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For the first time I understood the haunting beauty of the song. It was the song of a killer who longed to die. It was the song of justice yearned for but not yet done.
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The song "Sing for the Submarine" presents my dream world, which is way different from my waking world. It's set in the future and it's post-apocalyptic.
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I would say when you're dealing with live musicians and musicality, the warmth of a live instrument brings a certain feel to a song that is really hard, sometimes, to get from synthesized instruments.
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When I first start writing a song, I usually write the title first, then the song, and I'll sing the song in my head and think of a visual of the song. If I can't think of a visual behind the song, I'll throw the song away.
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There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.
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You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope.
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On 'Krit Wuz Here,' I had a record called 'Return Of 4eva' on it. And then that launched me into doing the actual 'Return Of 4eva' project, and 'Return Of 4eva' had a song called '4eva And A Day.' So it's like, all of my music has somehow tied into the entire story.
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I turned on 'One Tree Hill,' heard the opening song, and went, 'I got to know whose voice that is.'
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I got to sing a wonderful song called 'I Ain't Down Yet.' Well, I ain't.
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Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.
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I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it’s much better musically than much of what’s available now. Not in terms of production, but in terms of content. One good believable song about some guy’s girlfriend and how they broke up - a sincere one - is better than twenty albums of English rock that’s ever been produced.
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Only with a burning patience can we conquer the splendid City which will give light, justice and dignity to all mankind. In this way the song will not have been sung in vain.
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It'll sometimes hit me in the middle of a song, like, who do I think I am standing up here...playing.
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For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.
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Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.
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When I'm making a song, I try not to think about audience or genres. It's free-flowing. Natural.
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I have one favourite song, and that's 'Aayat' from 'Bajirao Mastani.'
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Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling."
