Quotes About Music

But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs.

I always try to write the best song I can in the moment, and those songs are often going to end up on Death Cab for Cutie records. I don't set out to write a solo song or write a band song. I just write, and where that songs ends up is kind of TBD.

We play our Irish songs a bit more loosely.

I love ballads. I'm not into fast songs. I love to put my heart and all of my feelings into a song.

I had a lot of Bengali friends in Delhi. The bands there had Bengali musicians: for example, Indian Ocean. We use to have a good amount of adda and sing songs through the night.

I like songs that are simple.

I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.

People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.

I want to create songs that will last across time.

He has given me several blockbuster albums in all these years, and DSP is the man behind many of the best songs in my career.

I love rethinking and reimagining songs.

Even after I had recorded a few songs, people would say that they didn't know me. It would hurt at times but now, I have learnt to live in the present.

I have a lot of songs, and I'd love to do some more recording with the band.

Music is a blessing which God has given to all of us. All of us might not be able to sing but we have an ear for songs and music, that itself is a big blessing.

Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do.

In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn't just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time.

I love playing guitar every night, and to be at this point where it's like, the songs are done and I'm happy with the way they are on record, and I get to hear them be reinterpreted by the live band? That's kind of the icing on the cake. It's the best.

Songs are easy to remember because they have rhythm and music.

I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something.

When I think about putting together an album, the process of listening to hundreds of songs each time and picking out the best 10 or so that will go on the record, it really sinks in as to just how many songs I've listened to all these years.

I don't think writing open-ended lyrics is necessarily an important part of writing good pop songs.

When I learning to write songs, I never really was interested in the chorus.

After 15 years of singing the same 12 to 15 songs every night, it can become monotonous.

I am compared to other classical musicians, but most of them perform songs from other people, and most of those composers belong to another era.