I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.
'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm excited for the fans to hear that one.
As the fans' voting reflected, people want to hear your best-known songs.
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.
Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in April Cold, grey-headed; and still to my Heart, Spring comes with a bound, Spring the deliverer, Spring, song-leader in woods, chorally resonant; Spring, flower-planter in meadows, Child-conductor in willowy Fields deep dotted with bloom, daisies and crocuses: Here that child from his heart drinks of eternity: O child, happy are children!
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.
We're not the kind of band who writes an order abundance of songs and picks from them, we usually write for the album.
If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song
It is very important to me that my songs can sound amazing with a big band or orchestra, but just as powerful and touching with just me and my guitar.
Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
I think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand.
A lot of ideas took us to dead ends or we found the tone wasn’t just right. I think we discovered very quickly this wasn’t just a song to end The Battle of the Five Armies—it was a song to say goodbye to Middle-earth.
Christianity only hopes. It has hung its harp on the willows, and cannot sing a song in a strange land. It has dreamed a sad dream, and does not yet welcome the morning with joy. The mother tells her falsehoods to her child, but, thank heaven, the child does not grow up in its parent's shadow. Our mother's faith has not grown with her experience. Her experience has been too much for her. The lesson of life was too hard for her to learn.
When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track.
C. S. Lewis says that fiction is able to sneak past the watchful dragons of religion. It becomes more powerful to speak in poetry. The song goes straight to the heart while the numbers and the math of it will never be able to reach that.
Please remember me.
Writing a great song is not a simple task, but I feel like when everything comes together and you sing it in a certain way that no-one else can sing it, when it's written in a certain way that's perfect for the way that you're performing it, that those are the things that make a song great.
When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.
I don't really listen to the radio too much. I know that one song, "Hotline Bling. "
