Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
My dad noticed some kind of talent on piano when he asked me to play a couple random songs on piano when I was 6 and I just did it. I attempted lessons but I was just so bad at reading notes. I would read "Three Blind Mice" by ear, so learning notes was almost impossible.
No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.
[My mother] is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs - by the time I was about 17 - she started to believe in me, musically.
I can sit and dissect for hours, and then write 50 songs about. I always find that inspiring.
Your power comes from the songs.
I won’t sell my songs for no TV Ad
I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.
Through the clouds of smoke I seemed to see all old Asia before me, and the adventures of past years behind me. A carnival of old camp-scenes danced before my mind’s eye, expiring like shooting-stars in the night—merry songs which came to an end among other mountains and the dying sound of strings and flutes. And I was surprised that I had not had enough of these things and that I was not tired of the light of camp-fires.
Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.
I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano
There is a great temptation with songs, melodies and lyrics to overcomplicate them but in fact, you find that the most enduring melodies are often the simplest.
I think One Direction are the biggest band in the world, their songs are great.
God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.
I write songs about real things. . . The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.
I think that's such a beautiful sentiment. Love should only last as long as a very expensive and impractical bikini that looks stunning, but dissolves in the sea within days. So many pop songs tell of this terrible, tiresome love that they want to last forever. But that just makes me think of long-life milk, acrid and fake. Love should be like a movie trailer. Even if the film's a stinker, you get the best laughs and the biggest explosions in the space of two minutes.
I think America sees someone like myself, and they see it's not just a voice. It's the musicality of it all. People see that you can play an instrument and think you can immediately write songs.
Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.
Everyone was saved once by music. So I decided to REALLY work on my songs and not just "play" - to make something really good, more "professional. " Something which makes you feel better; a song who says: "I know how much you're sad, and you're not alone, this is a song made for you. " I really wanted to help with my music.
People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.
