Quotes About Songs

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

The only thing that would make her jealous would be if I led a parade riding a unicorn while ballerinas sang love songs.

I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.

I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.

Surfers were the ones who named all my songs. They'd yell out the names, and we just kept 'em.

When I sat down with all the songs before recording, I realised I'd written a few songs specifically about places in America - there was this song about Detroit and another about Yellowstone National Park. My dad is actually American, so I wrote another song about that side of my family.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!

Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.

At times, yes, I have been typecast. But I love having a regional identity in my songs. I want to deliver music that reflects the culture of our soil.

The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.

My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.

In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in the people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here in Los Angeles, there are less characters because they're all inside automobiles.

My parents are musicians. I was listening to the radio and recording songs off the radio on cassette tapes and playing guitars and pianos. Just emotionally responding to music from a very young age.

I'm doing bass trap; I'm doing EDM songs.

There's a beautiful, kind of seductive trap in being autobiographical in our writing of songs: We just get stuck in our own syrup, and it's so personal that it almost can be embarrassing to the listener.

I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.

I'm a traveler and a vagabond and an observer, and the songs come through that. And that's just the way it's going to be.

I had someone tell me recently that Black Dog had started this important conversation about mental health that had saved their marriage. It's really quite mad how these songs have travelled.

It's hectic at times, but this is what any artiste wants: a hectic life with lot of travelling, performances, lots of love from fans, the opportunity to compose songs back-to-back, and a chance to share the stage with maestros like Zakir Hussain.

I listen to music a lot on the treadmill - I would test 'Raditude' songs out on the treadmill.

I remember when I was doing my first Christmas album, I thought, 'Wouldn't it be nice to find new Christmas songs?' Then I went, 'Are you crazy?' When I decorate my tree I don't want new Christmas songs, I want to hear all the familiar songs!

He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that.

I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.