Quotes About Music

It does feel really good when you play a new song, and it's the loudest singalong of the night. It means just as much when we're playing the old songs, and people are singing along to those, too.

When you write songs, you're writing little bits here, little bits there.

It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease.

A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

I downloaded ProTools - legally, of course... and I wanted to impress girls by making remixes of songs.

I just take rock songs and mix it with hip-hop and a little bit of R&B.

I would hear Steely Dan on the radio all the time, and I listened to 'Aja' a lot. I mean, 'Black Cow' and 'Aja' and 'Deacon Blues' and 'Josie' and 'Peg'... all these songs are on one record. It's crazy!

I always try to give my songs as gifts.

I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest.

I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's a real enjoyment.

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em.

There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.

It's a rare combination to have someone who can write songs and sing well.

I try to give the music more of a campfire feel as opposed to a library atmosphere. I like when you can hear people hanging out in the songs and doing a little shuffling. It creates a feeling of participation.

I've got a bad rap for not being more charismatic between songs.

Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm.

Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There's something hypnotic or meditative, and it mirrors the way that I am putting the sentence together, going back over the same phrases again and again.

I feel a duty to write because I can write songs.

All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.

My career was really odd, because I literally had a greatest hits album out and nobody knew who I was. They knew the songs, but they didn't know me.

My main objective with every album is to capture a moment in time, which usually makes the whole process very relaxing. I only discover in retrospect when looking back at the songs how my life is going!

After giving countless hit songs, I felt saturated. I decided to do music only for my own films and music albums. And so, I decided to start my own music label.