312 Quotes About Songs

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

My songs are always four years ahead of me. They're like my teachers.

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.

I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.

I've got a lot of songs about having fun and partying, but it's a lot of work.

I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

The most important thing here is the story. The songs are a wonderful bonus. But they had to be able to act.