Songs Quotes

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love.

And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation.

Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do the singing - you don't want to hear three songs at once.

Some songs are just going to be acoustic with just maybe some light background stuff going on and maybe violin or something like that. Or sax - I mean, I'm definitely having some sax. That's just what I love. It's going to be jazz-rock stuff. That's what I'm aiming for.

But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs.

It's great to hear from people who have been touched by these songs. It has been good to know that the Lord is using this in ways I am not even aware of.

I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible.

I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.

We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.

We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.

I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.

When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.

In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.

We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

I remember seeing the song in some diners on the selection gadget that plays records at the table while you were eating. We were never told if the songs ever got on any charts.

I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want to, just the favorites.

Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.

I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.