“I think people take Blink-128 more seriously now than they did before. And it's largely our fault because we called our records Enema of the State and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. We were always kind of the underdogs, especially critically. People wrote us off as this joke band. But the people who listened to Blink knew that we were silly and whatever, but we wrote songs about divorce and suicide and depression. Those kids that were listening to Blink are now the ones that control all these outlets that used to just write us off.” PeopleThinkingWritingKindKidsSongListeningJokesSuicideDivorceSillyBlinkUnderdog Author:Mark Hoppus
“When that much time goes by, you're really listening to your old music differently. At the time it's written, it was the beginning of our career and with every song we're thinking, 'This is what's creating us.' Now, nothing is creating us. We're well-created. We're there. It becomes just pure pleasure and you become sort of an archeologist of your own music. You don't judge it, because what's the point? It's a 30-year-old song. It just becomes fun.” ThinkingSongFunPleasureJudgingListeningTime Goes ByOld Song Author:Chris Cornell
“It's a really common trap to want your life to live up to some standard that you believe in, and then you start to really examine those standards and realize they come not from experiences you've had, but things you've seen in movies, or feelings you've felt listening to pop songs, or ideas you've received from reading books. And not just happy things, but a lot of the time, sad things. It gets kind of depressing, when you see how movies and songs make these promises to us.” BelieveKindBookFeelingsSongReadingRealizingCommonListeningPromiseReading BooksDepressingPop Song Author:Will Sheff
“The fun part, I will admit this much, there is a period when listening to my music is fun, and that's when I'm making it. There's a tiny little window before something gets old, but after it's come to fruition. There's a little window there where I can listen to a song probably about five times, and I'll really think it's awesome. That's kind of the period that lets me know when I - 99 percent of the time, that period is right about whether a song is going to be a keeper for an album or just a throwaway track that never gets - in that little window.” ThinkingKindSongFunListeningMusic IsWindowLet MeTrack Author:RJD2
“I like listening to the whole song. Like my father says, "If you can't pick the whole song, then why are you playing it?"” SongFatherListening Author:Alexandra Richards
“To get large groups of people to dance, there needs to be something accessible about the music. The beat can't be too esoteric, but unless we're talking about prog or etherealist composition, I think there's something simplistic about most music. What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice? Those people aren't really listening; they're judging a song off of a beat, off of a pulse.” PeopleThinkingSongChoicesSimpleJudgingListeningSmartSimplicityInsaneComposition Author:Dan Deacon
“When you listen to the Anthology of American Folk Music, or anything like that - a compilation of garage bands from the Northeast in the early '60s - you're not necessarily listening to the band and thinking about the lead singer, or the story of the group, or the context or the mythology of the group. You're just listening to the song and whether or not it has a hook.” ThinkingSongListeningMythologyHookGarageJust ListenFolk Music Author:Bradford Cox
“I would go into my three different sisters' rooms in the early-mid '70s and they had very specific different tastes in music. I specifically remember lying on my different sisters' bedroom floors and listening to their record collections. And "Starship Trooper" was one of my sister Nancy's favorite songs and favorite album. Music is so defining for me. In the late '70s and early '80s, I worked in radio. When I was in high school, I worked at two different radio stations.” DifferentSchoolRememberLyingSongListeningMusic IsHigh SchoolMy SisterBedroomFavorite Song Author:Thomas Haden Church
“My musical style changes with every song that I make. I jokingly referred to it one time as 'emo thug', and I think that kind of stands because it's got equal parts of the aggressive confidence of the Dre beats I grew up listening to, and the emotion of like... emo music!” ThinkingKindSongEmotionStyleListeningEqualMusicalAggressiveEmo Author:The Last Skeptik
“In Othello, Othello kills Desdemona, but no one reads that play as a model for their own behavior. In Lou Reed's case, you're listening to a song, and in my case you're reading about a life. Like Lou, I trust my audience to make their own moral determinations.” SongReadingMoralAudienceListeningBehaviorDetermination Author:Anthony DeCurtis
“As an artist it's exciting to know that you've made someone's life decision after them listening to your song. To get married or un-married, when you realize that people are listening it brings a feel of responsibility that can't be ignored or denied. There's someone watching us. Whether an artist wants to admit that or not.” PeopleArtistSongRealizingDecisionResponsibilityListeningMarriedExcitingIgnoredLife Decision Author:Kelly Price
“I would agree with that. But when I write lyrics, personally I don't care if the person who is listening to it understands what I'm saying or not; and I write them like that specifically. You know, I have my views; I don't feel the need to have people have the same views as me. So if they find the meaning in the songs and it's the same meaning as the one I intended then fine and dandy and if they don't, they don't.” PeopleWritingCareSongListeningAgree Author:David W. Marsden
“That's one of the most exciting things for me about listening to records: It's a moment in time, and the less it's messed with the more powerful it is. I wanted at least one song on the record to be just completely about the moment.” MomentsSongPowerfulListeningExciting Author:Zooey Deschanel
“I don't really have a set-in-stone process or formula. Sometimes the melody is there and I have to chase down the lyrics. Sometimes, the song is there and I have to make the melody fit. What I've learned so far about songwriting is that I can't force a song. If I try to do that, it's hollow, and people know a hollow song when they hear it. It's the song they stop listening to and forget about. I'd prefer not to write those kinds of songs.” PeopleWritingTryingKindSometimesSongForgetListeningFitMelodySongwriting Author:Kasey Anderson
“Years later, you can hear a song, and it brings you back right to that moment, what was happening at that time, whether it was a relationship or a difficult time, or maybe a great time in your life, and you had that album you were listening to. Twenty years later, you can put on that song you fell in love to or your heart was broken to, and you hear that song and it brings you right back there. I think music is the most powerful tool we have.” ThinkingHeartMomentsSongDifficultPowerfulBrokenListeningMusic IsMost PowerfulDifficult Times Author:Balthazar Getty
“I remember the audition process for Xena: Warrior Princess; I was driving there and I was listening to The Cranberries' "Dreams," so I was thinking of that audition again recently with the sudden passing of Dolores O'Riordan, Cranberries singer. And I remember that song, I was like, "Okay, I can do anything" as I was driving onto the lot at Universal.” ThinkingDreamRememberSongListeningOkayDrivingWarriorPrincess Author:Selma Blair
“I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.” WholeDreamSongRecordsListeningTapeRecorders Author:Lenny Kravitz
“During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.” YearsTwoSongListeningTwo YearsSabbatical Author:Ricky Martin
“We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.” WarTogetherSongBornCreativityListeningSoldierRadioCriticalStationsVietnamVietnam WarCoverageRadio StationsCompilation Author:Joni Mitchell
“Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I switched to a career as a writer, I would try to listen to music, but if the songs had lyrics they would get in the way of the words I was trying to write. So I switched to listening to purely instrumental pieces.” IfsWayWritingTryingFirstsSongCareersPiecesListeningDelusionListening To MusicCartoonistBack In The DayAdequacy Author:Alan Moore
“I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.” KidsSongHousePlayerRocksListeningGrewDadGrew UpStandardsTheaterMusicalMy DadTraditionalPianoExposedRock N RollAlleysTinMusical TheaterPiano MusicPlayer PianoIrish MusicTin Pan Alley Author:John C. Reilly
“A love song must respect the canons of music beauty, entering the fibers of those who are listening. It must make them dream and pleasantly introduce them to the universe of love.” DreamSongUniverseListeningIntroducingEnteringFiberCanon Author:Andrea Bocelli
“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