Quotes About Songs

The meaning of the words in my songs are very important to me. But what's most important to me is that the music works.

I'm a lyric man - I'm always looking for meaningful songs.

Ive always respected Lindsay Buckingham and I took it on as a challenge to do justice to the songs the best I could. Im not Lindsay and hes not me, but I learned the best I could to support the songs as they were on the record.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

What earns my respect is... I love great lyricists, artists that can create incredible rhymes or incredible songs. The same thing goes if you're a singer. I definitely respect that.

I don't think anyone does Rush songs except for Rush.

Some of the best rock riffs ever written were by Jimmy Page, and I can't really name the songs, but some of the stuff he did on his first and second records is beyond brilliant.

I'm always going to take an experience and a fire beat and marry it all together with adult melodies. I try to paint, just like Frank Ocean paints with his lyrics. I try in similar ways to paint my life into these songs.

I was in Paris for nine years, starting in '98. One of the great things when I was first there were these wonderful CD collections, selling for almost nothing. For ten euros, you'd get three CDs of all the Gershwin songs.

You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.

I am an extremely energetic person, and my party songs have managed to click with the listeners.

My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

I am going to keep on singing. I have no intention of retiring. Actually, I always wonder whether people know my songs in the different countries I visit. I feel nervous over whether they will sing along with me or not.

I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

Two things I'm obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you'll hear me mentioning body parts and human anatomy. I've listened to my songs and I think I am quite visual and I talk about bones and flesh a lot.

I'm very visual when I write and get a lot of inspiration from scrolling through Tumblr or Pinterest. I have picture folders to most of the songs I've written. It would be cool to release it as a book one day!

Music reigns supreme. It does not need a visual prop. While listening to a number, do you enjoy the tune, or do you enjoy it because you imagine someone singing it? In fact, quite a few hits of mine are from films that no one has heard about. The songs still rule, though.

Music is a gestalt. Songs are a life force and they have specific vocabulary to them. You hear a few notes, and they take you into a world of association.

The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.

I don't really have the voice for love songs, do I?

I have got a lot of appreciation from people and they really like my voice in Sufi songs, so I will continue with that, but I'm also experimenting with other types of songs.

I like songs to mean something as well as sound good, and Paul Simon is a maestro. While Art Garfunkel was a voice and moved on to other things Simon remained the genius lyricist and composer.

Basically, I listen to voices. If they write good songs and they can sing, I'll probably like it.

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.