Songs Quotes

I like to look at the songs like they're little movies.

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it.

Songs always get better after you start playing them live.

Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.

I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.

Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America.

We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.

I know every Skynyrd and about all Johnny Cash songs.

Some people might go to the gym and swim laps, but I write songs. Every single day, I write something new and record it.

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.

Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now.

Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.

I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

What most people know about me, they know through my music. This time, I've tried to open that door as wide as possible. These songs are a giant step closer to who I really am and what my music is all about. Hence the title.

Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.

But I always loved songs with great lyrics.

I can't believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer, and get to sing the songs that I sing.

Obviously the biggest change is that it's me by myself. When you don't have another band interpreting your songs or playing them the way that they have, it's bound to sound different.

Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.

We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.

I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.

I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched.

I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.