Songs Quotes

All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.

I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful.

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.

He's written some great songs. I thought that "Blues Man" was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.

I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.

In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.

When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.

Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material.

I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.

I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.

I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine.

People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

Even though there's these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there's any good riffs in them, we raped the songs and put in the new ones.

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

People know me for up-tempo songs because of my hits.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.