Song Quotes
My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.
I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king.
If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, fire next time.
As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.
It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.
On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.
To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.
I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.
I always like to think that I make movies that are like Nirvana songs. They have a slow verse and then they pop into high gear and then they go back into slow and then they pop into high gear again.
We'd record a song that people liked and wanted to hear on the radio, and the radio wouldn't play it because it was too long. Or they wanted to edit it, which we wouldn't allow.
The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot.
If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there's definitely a different kind of feel than Billy's songs.
I'd like to keep doing film and TV, and I definitely can appreciate a good theme song. If it's memorable, that's a great thing.
The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long.
Songs of praise the angels sang, Heav'n with alleluias rang, when creation was begun, when God spoke and it was done.
Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.
A song is what you fall in love with first, but then I think a band's ideals and a band's sense of fashion and a sense of how they treat people is what you fall in love with afterwards.
I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.
I feel the reasons my songs might seem dark is because of how I viewed the situations I was in and it was just something I always felt like documenting.
I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton.
All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was hearing and what was available in the software.
It's honestly every time that I'm doing something, and every time I visit a station and hear my song on the radio and people buying my stuff, I'm like 'Are you kidding me? This is insane!'
For they both were solitary, She on earth and he is heaven. And he wooed her with caressed, Wooed her with his smile of sunshine -Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
With all the innovation in music today it’s rare to find someone like Engel writing timeless songs that sound at home in the ribcage of rock n roll’s skeleton.
I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.
Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.
This is a song called 'The Kill.' But don't be scared, it's a nice song. About losing your mind.
When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived, sometimes it is and I think people pick up on that.
I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.
I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.
The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more.
In a song you can kind of stage-manage everything so that it puts you in a good light. And once a song is recorded, it always performs well.
Records are one thing, and obviously, without hit songs, you don't have the opportunity to do your shows. But my live show has always been my selling tool.
I grew up listening to all kinds of music, everything from country to rock, pop, R&B and even rap, so for me, music is music and a great song is a great song.
There's a lot of people I'd love to work with at some point, but I think the song has to be the right thing. It has to be the right fit.
Typing in the name of a song and downloading the song you really have no connection with the artist at that point. So I think it is still important to have physical CDs and stuff like that.
Gimme some of that you and me, Some of that way back when, A little bit of wild and free I wanna feel that again
When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages.
The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.
You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.
I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We’re all going to have bummer moments. That’s not the stuff I choose to share.