Quotes about song
song writing play
Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics? Christopher Moore
song art prayer
Regardless of its purpose, the humpback-whale song is the most complex piece of nonhuman composition on earth. Whether it's art, prayer, or booty call, the humpback song is an amazing thing to experience firsthand, and I suspect that even once the science of it is put to bed, it will remain, as long as they sing, magic.
song long should
Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song? Anne Bronte
song ideas people
I've literally opened it up to suggestions and it's totally chaotic and kind of a bad idea. You don't need the actual feedback to get a sense. When you're showing a song for the first time, people can feel that newness. Andrew Bird
song littles three
If you take a little time, let's say three weeks off, after recording a song, and you listen to it every other day, you're just going to know eventually.
song expectations records
You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.
song fun thinking
The orchestra's an amazing instrument, but I don't want to just arrange my songs for it. I think that might be kind of boring and a little bit overdramatic, perhaps. I'm still just having too much fun doing it my way, for the time being.
song half way
There's kind of this unequaled thrill of playing a half-finished song, it's kind of sense of slight embarrassment; like you're blushing. I like doing that. I did that with "Eyeoneye" and it was almost a curse on the song for a while; I debuted it when it was half-finished in a very public way
song writing creativity
The first splurge of creativity is kind of free, and the last 30 percent is painstakingly hard work, but it's good to light a fire and make it public and create that expectation. It's become part of the writing process, really, a way to ask the audience what they think, how they think it's going. I can't write songs in a vacuum.
song writing doom-and-gloom
The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs, the music is actually pretty peaceful and lulling.
song home nuts
I'm not a home-studio guy. I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all together, because you go nuts working if I had to finish an entire project all within my own head.
song couple airports
Some of your best songs come from a desperate attempt to escape, so sitting in an airport for hours I can just start pulling out little fragments of songs from my head. A lot of times a melody will just occur to me and be my companion for a couple of months.
song writing night
I can't relate to the process of just disappearing and writing a record, all at the same time, followed by the sort of drudgery of going out on tour and trying to recreate the record, playing the same 12 songs every night.
song writing thinking
There's always a tension between wanting to write a really concise, instant gratification type song that gets under your skin the first time you hear it, and wanting to really stretch out. I think it's a healthy tension.
song taken two
There's songs that could either be taken as a conversation between two people, like "The Privateers," or "Why," from a much earlier record. Or "Glass Figurine." That's my version of a relationship song.
song appreciate vague
Most of the songs that I appreciate are lyrically vague.
song kind mental-illness
Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.
song struggle writing
I have some irrepressible pop impulses to write an appealing, concise song. And I also have some irrepressible kind of restlessness as well, and I need to keep myself interested. When I'm left to my own devices, there's a struggle.
song struggle pops
There's always that struggle between me wanting to keep [song] new and fresh and then be - I can never get with pop songs being so repetitive.
song writing simple
I'm coming from a place that's more experimental and indulgent already, so for the last 10 years, it's been more like, "How can I defend my own sensibilities by writing a nugget of a little catchy pop song?" That's how I'm stretching myself, by writing something really simple.
song greek challenges
I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that.
song thinking creating
If something gets under my own skin, and keeps reoccurring, it starts to take on a certain weight and value, and I think, "I have to put this in the song. I have no choice but to mention Greek Cypriots in this song." It's a little internal challenge to myself. Like creating little imaginary rituals in yourself to help the song go from nonexisting to existing.
song art needs
I don't get particularly precious about things like this, though. Like the record company said, "We need a radio edit that delivers the hook" - I don't even know what they consider the hook in that song ["Oh No"] - "that delivers the hook sooner." So I'm like, "Okay. I see that." And they were all walking on eggshells, like is this going to be sacrilegious to me or something, to mess with this art I've created? And I'm like, "Great. I get to tinker with it, I get to mess with my song some more."
song stones rolling
It's not set in stone. I like to keep it rolling and changing, and so I am like, "Great, I get to remake my song."
song writing ideas
The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
song inspire restlessness
No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.
song play appreciate
All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.
song people matter
I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is. Amos Lee
song mean honest
I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.
song waiting
they danced as though they'd been waiting all their lives for each song. Amy Bloom
song believe rooms
I believe truly that Satan cannot endure it and so slips out of the room - more or less - when there is a true song. Amy Carmichael
song people cobain
People looked to Kurt Cobain because his songs captured what they felt before they knew they felt it. Anthony DeCurtis
song ocean two
The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two. Anthony de Mello