Quotes About Songs

For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic.

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

I am happy that I could collaborate with poets like O.N.V. Kurup and Yusufali Kechery in my career; they wrote meaningful lyrics, which made my songs last longer.

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.

I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs.

I've learned by experience that, if I get too clever with lyrics, or if I'm not totally embodying my own wants and needs in the songs, I can't remember them.

I constantly tour every year, around the clock. That's how I make my living, and I do very well. Because I have classic songs.

There's a joy I get from collaborating with other artists, and there's a joy I get from making songs on my own.

I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the music to it.

Part of doing mash-ups is getting the legal rights to use the songs. If you're going to do a mash-up with five songs, you should probably find 10 songs, because you're only going to get half of them cleared. It's a real collaborative effort.

I remember thinking that 'Earthworms' wasn't really an 'album' to me, only because it felt like a weird collection of songs more than an actual project.

Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.

Singing live is my favorite. When people sing along to your songs, the circle is complete.

In Sandalwood, each hero has a style and songs are composed accordingly.

Mithoon is a composer who really likes to work a lot on his songs. He is like a small kid in the studio.

A lot of my songs are about things that concern me personally, not a heightened version of myself or any of the characters that I play.

For 'Rock On,' we not only acted as rock musicians; we also went into the studio to record songs and jammed live to get the concert feel right.

For me, I really feel like if there's not a real, true connection to the material, I don't need to sing it. I don't need to sing songs just because I like them anymore. I've done that.

I was surrounded by music in my family, surrounded by people who sang songs - every single person I knew as a child growing up had one, two, three songs they knew from start to finish.

We started writing songs like 'Shook Ones' and 'Survival of the Fittest' explaining our neighborhood, but more our personal lives.

Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

Sustaining a narrative in sentences and paragraphs is very different from songwriting. But the dedication to the craft and just the endurance that it takes, you know, to stick with it and believe you can pull it out and make it real and finish it, I learned that a long time ago writing songs.

They're great songs. How many bands wouldn't like to have a 'Freebird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama' to play every night?