Song Quotes - Page 308

Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound traditional around the story. This is one she's called mother willow tree, it's beautiful

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

I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist.

We have access to more resources in general, and they are not going to force a situation on us, whether its the producer, or the cover, or what songs we have to play. And it's a small enough company that it seems like the people there care about music and not just about business.

I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.

It does make sense to put on some songs that are relatively short, because radio usually only plays songs that are less than 4 or 5 minutes.

Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I'd play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes.

I guess there are two things that make me like songs generally, of ours, and that is if they groove well, or if they have a jam that can go somewhere.

I realize that people won't even download the entire album and might just download a song or two and put it in a playlist for a workout or in the background while people do dishes. That's fine and I can't dictate how people listen to my music, but I structure records the way I listen to records.

With the project where I'm making something with my own name, my main mission statement is honesty. I never want to hold back from what I'm saying for fear of showing it to people. At the same time, I try to take my own personal experiences and problems and wrap them around lyrics that are a little more universal and not naming names. I don't let it get that personal. That's not really a fear of over-sharing, it's just what makes a good song. I want to get people to listen to it and to find a universal aspect of what I'm trying to say.

I think it's something that really speaks in your head - a very strong melody. But at the same time, if the song doesn't have some kind of edge to it, if there isn't something a little off about it or something very intense or loud or abrasive in some way, it just comes off as a stupid pop song.

In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

I'm not here to write a song for you, I'm here to help you write a song for yourself.

The thing is, I'm not a prolific songwriter.

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.

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

It's not rubbish to say that I was a bit peeved about not getting credit for a couple of songs, but that wasn't the whole reason. I guess I just felt like I had enough. I decided to leave and start a group with Jack Bruce

We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.

There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.

I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math.

Say goodbye to a world where you cannot breathe/ To hiding behind unfamiliar skin/ To singing songs never knowing what they mean/ Now this is the way it was meant to be/ Be still and listen to the rising and falling/ Knowledge is power and I never knew me till now.

Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.