“My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code.” PeopleKnowsMightSongStrangeCodeCryptic Author:Black Francis
“The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes like rock music. But some of the themes in there - maybe it's because I know how the songs were written, but it really does sound like it was written by two or three people, with the idea to appeal to the most general audience.” PeopleKnowsDoeTwoIdeasCountrySometimesSongThreeSoundAudienceKnow HowWrittenRocksStrangePopsContemporaryAppealsThemeFascinatedRock Music Author:Ryan Adams
“I do craft songs, that this is designed. It's almost like the song was written to produce this desired effect. And it probably really works for somebody. It's maybe somebody's favorite tune, and it's really hard to come down on that, even if I feel a little embarrassed for it. Because some songs are written like a commercial, and that can be a little strange.” IfsFeelsLittlesHardSongWrittenEffectsProduceStrangeCraftsTunesEmbarrassed Author:Ryan Adams
“If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as though it increases. I must be honest about such strange feelings: I now want to be thought unfaithful about as much as a bougie aristocrat wants to be thought a hobo.” IfsWantFeelsSometimesFeelingsChristianAmericaLife IsSongChristBornNumbersHonestStrangeBeatsIncreaseBeing HonestDecreaseUnfaithfulHobos Author:Criss Jami
“It's funny when you write a song - it's easy for me now - but there's almost a second stage where you take control of the song. You start writing it, and if you're not careful, it just finishes itself and it might not be what you wanted. It's very strange, it takes over itself. It has its own life.” IfsWritingMightWantedSongEasyStageStrangeCarefulOver ItTake Control Author:Kate Bush
“I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I’m not sure if that comes across or not.” IfsEndsMomentsSongInterestLinesStrangeSentencesNot SureRhymeInteriorsEmphasisRhymingPlaying Around Author:Joanna Newsom
“The charms of money are distinctly under-represented in literature. There are no songs or poems extolling its virtues. This seems on the face of it strange. The claims of money to be celebrated in verse might well seem to be no less than those of faithful dogs, beautiful women, or jugs of wine.” WellsSeemsMightBeautifulFacesSongLiteratureVirtueDogStrangeClaimsWineFaithfulCharmVersesBeautiful WomenJugsFaithful Dogs Author:Celia Green
“Port Talbot is a steel town, where everything is covered with gray iron ore dust. Even the beach is completely littered with dust, it's just black. The sun was setting, and it was quite beautiful. The contrast was extraordinary, I had this image of a guy sitting there on this dingy beach with a portable radio, tuning in these strange Latin escapist songs like 'Brazil.' The music transported him somehow and made his world less gray.” WorldMadeBeautifulGuySongBlackSunStrangeSittingTownsExtraordinaryRadioSettingSettingsDustBeachIronLatinCoveredGrayContrastSteelPortBrazilTuningEscapistsIron Ore Author:Terry Gilliam
“Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.” PeopleNeedsWritingSongStrangeMusicianEncountersRitualSuperstitions Author:Dar Williams
“People get strange about whether you've written your own songs, which seems really stupid considering that, especially in Country Music, it's about oral tradition and passing things on and the songs weren't meant to be played by one person and then forgotten.” PeoplePersonsCountrySeemsSongWrittenStupidStrangeTraditionForgottenPassingPassingsMeant To BeConsideringReally StupidOral Tradition Author:Neko Case
“I can listen to the same song back-to-back for two to three hours straight. I'm not psycho; I swear. There are some songs I won't listen to any more because they are songs that helped me get to emotional places. Even if I hear it, I'll have to walk out of the room or turn it down. It sounds so strange but those things affect me in a certain way.” IfsWayI CanTwoCertainSongTurnsThreeSoundHoursWalksRoomsEmotionalStrangeSwearPsycho Author:Rami Malek