#songs

Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose. ↗

— Peter Tork

#original #produced #purpose #songs #thinly

I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage. ↗

— Mel Torme

#am #dead #eight #folks #get

It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#back #blowing #bringing #encores #flashing

I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites. ↗

— Tom Waits

#i #i think #just #names #sailors

Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs. ↗

— Tom Waits

#goodbye #most #road #songs #tales

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records. ↗

— Roger Waters

#either #i #i do #i think #like

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs. ↗

— Roger Waters

#best #could #creativity #father #going

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#brush #canvas #palette #producing #recording

The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff. ↗

— Kip Winger

#bar #complicated #difficult #i #meet

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs. ↗

— Paula Cole

#childhood #childhood memories #i #into #memories