#songs

We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians. ↗

— Chad Smith

#as far as #creative #far #feel #flea

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer. ↗

— Jo Stafford

#performer #songs #suffer

The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about! ↗

— Layne Staley

#down #listen #songs #things #think

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers. ↗

— Layne Staley

#changes #day #day to day #life #meaning

There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human. ↗

— Layne Staley

#being #being human #deep #few #huge

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#been #best #come #diaries #going

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#because #hard #i #i do #most

Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#getting #intimate #like #naked #songs

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs. ↗

— Sting

#done #i #introduced #me #meditation

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#different #his #lyrics #narrative #nick