“It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.” IfsTryingI CanMomentsSongGunScriptsRight ThingConfetti Author:Victoria Legrand
“A song is not going to change this damn world. Instead of making people mad about this shitty situation, it's going to make everybody happy. It's a false thing. It's like a lullaby as opposed to a gun. People need to be slapped into reality and music just doesn't do that.” PeopleWorldNeedsRealitySongSituationGunMadDamnLullaby Author:Chaka Khan
“The only time I think I've ever gotten sick of playing Guns and Roses songs really was during - after having played them in Guns and Roses, and then in Snakepit, and then playing 'It's So Easy' and 'Brownstone' in Velvet Revolver.” ThinkingSongEasyGunSickRoseOnly TimeVelvetRevolver Author:Slash
“I'm so sick and tired of all this violence, this gun violence. And how could I speak on it - you know - being one who has advocated violence and gun violence? The only way I could do it was through a song that spoke from the heart.” KnowsWayHeartWisdomRealitySongPoliticsSpeakCommunityLeadershipJusticeHistoryViolenceGenerationsHuman NaturePolicyEthicsGunSickStrategyTiredUnityHuman RightsIndividualitySocial MediaIdeologySpokesFree SpeechCivilityDisobedienceCivil DisobedienceGun ViolenceSo Sick Author:Snoop Dogg
“My dad one time told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to shoot you.' And that really stuck with me. I think about that a lot. I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called "Starry Room" and then I started turning over a new leaf. Now, I'm completely honest with girls all the time and they just get mad at me.” ThinkingShouldUsedLyingSongGirlRoomsHonestDadGunOkayMadMy DadStuckOne TimeLeafsOnly Time Author:Jaden Smith
“The Country Music Awards were held Wednesday night at Universal City. The best country songs are always about drinking and guns and love gone wrong. Next year they're giving Robert Blake the Lifetime Achievement Award.” GivingYearsCountryNightSongNextCitiesGoneAchievementGunAnd LoveUniversalDrinkingLifetimeAwardsNext YearWednesdayBlakeLifetime AchievementBest CountryWednesday Nights Author:Argus Hamilton
“What would I say about "Heaven Without a Gun"? For me, to have this man, and our friendship [ with Andy Kim] grew really slowly and very consistently throughout the years before we decided to get into a studio together, I wasn't sure if he wanted to do songs that were pre-written or what. We didn't know what we were getting into.” IfsKnowsMenYearsWantedTogetherSongHeavenWrittenGrewGunDecidedStudiosConsistentlyKim Author:Kevin Drew
“There was this wonderful day where we sat and listened to all of Andy's [Kim] songs throughout the years, and I think we spent around six hours at my house, and then we played all these tunes of mine that have never found any version. And "Heaven Without a Gun" is one of them, and it struck him. If you can find a compadre who doesn't live in the literal world 'cos you're not always fighting to explain yourself to make sense, that maybe it's the dyslexia, maybe it's the dreamer, maybe it's the idea that grammar was not your foreplay - excuse me - see what I mean, your forte.” IfsThinkingWorldYearsMeanIdeasSongFightingFoundHouseHeavenHoursWonderfulMinesSixGunExcuseVersionsMake SenseSatTunesDreamerGrammarLiteralKimExcuse MeDyslexiaForteWonderful DayAlways FightingExplain Yourself Author:Kevin Drew
“There's an interesting story around that ["Heaven Without a Gun"], because the girl I was dating at the time got into a bike accident and couldn't make it into the studio, and the gentleman Dave Hamlin who worked on this record along with Ohad sort of took it, rearranged it. Dave went and sonically changed it and changed the keys so that Andy could sing it better. All these pieces came together that suddenly displayed that the song was meant for Andy [Kim] to sing. And he always said, "I'll never understand it, but I'll sing it with all my heart."” HeartSaidStoriesTogetherSongGirlHeavenInterestingRecordsPiecesChangedKeysMy HeartGunDatingStudiosAccidentsGentlemanBikeDaveKimInteresting Stories Author:Kevin Drew
“I remember going into a raggedy studio, still with my work uniform on. At the time, I was driving money trucks for Wells Fargo, so I had my gun and hat, which weighed me down in the heat. It was 97 degrees here in New York, and they had to turn the air conditioner off because it was too loud. So, I say, "Damn, it's hot in here!" That's how we came up with the song, "Damn, It's Hot." It was from our soul. We just got together, sang and made our own lyrics.” WellsMadeStillsSoulTogetherRememberSongTurnsAirNew YorkDegreesGunHotStudiosDrivingLoudDamnHeatHatsUniformsTruckFargoAir ConditionerWells Fargo Author:Sharon Jones
“They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?” IfsMeanLyingSongJesusSexRecordsGunRapVideoDeceitTape Author:Kanye West
“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.” PeopleHeartKidsPainSongCultureLossMusicWorryViolenceSadnessBrokenListeningGunMiseryScaredViolentVideoTeenagerRejectionFidelityKids Playing Book:High Fidelity Source: High Fidelity
“I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks for early light dappled through leaves and the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.” KnowsWorldGivingWarLightRunningPainNightSufferingSongFallStarsPoorGunRainRiversGood ThingsRoseHeavyWoundsHungryThanksNeglectThanksgivingCricketPerfumeJulyHideousGood GodWild RosesHeavy Rain Author:Ann Voskamp