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You've got to put interesting people around you; you've got to work with people who are gonna inspire you to take the songs you've written into a completely different direction, because there's nothing more boring than going to the studio and predictably knowing what is going to happen.
Dave Gahan
Work
You
People
Inspire
Nothing
Boring
Direction
More
Take
Songs
Studio
Written
Put
Knowing
Because
Around
Got
Than
Going
Different
Happen
Interesting
Interesting People
Gonna
Who
Certain songs like 'Enjoy the Silence' - to me, it always fits anywhere. There's something about that song that's really timeless, and I never get bored or feel like I have to muster something up.
Dave Gahan
Me
Silence
Song
Enjoy
Muster
Bored
About
Something
Never
Songs
Feel
Like
Always
Fits
Up
Timeless
Get
Anywhere
Really
Certain
I always played around with writing songs, but when you're spending a lot of time in bars, you have a lot of big ideas, but you don't do much with them.
Dave Gahan
Time
You
Writing
Big
Spending
Songs
Ideas
Around
Always
Lot
Big Ideas
Them
Much
Bars
Played
There's a reason why the Foo Fighters don't blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that's hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn't really come up, or it just hasn't felt right.
Dave Grohl
You
Respect
Opportunity
Before
Every
Nirvana
Out
Be Careful
About
Songs
Blast
Lightly
Come
Know
Talked
Because
Felt
Hallowed
Lot
Up
Just
Them
Really
Fighters
Ground
Reason
Why
Right
Tread
Every Night
Night
Careful
Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.
Dave Grohl
You
Record
Songs
Make
Go
Them
You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap - and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and 'Heart Shaped Box' and stuff on 'In Utero' just happened that way.
Dave Grohl
You
Heart
Noise
Sometimes
Three
Half
Way
Nirvana
Would
Some
Shaped
Songs
Stuff
Come
Hour
Like
Know
Box
Came
Just
Crap
Happened
Jamming
Us
Used
Rehearsals
Things
Start
I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.
Dave Matthews
God
Relationship
Songs
Know
Lot
Means
Use
I really like the European carols, and I like that captivating sound that they have that isn't usually in Christmas songs.
David Archuleta
Christmas
Songs
Like
Sound
Really
European
Captivating
I don't think songs have to be like these super-#1-smash-hit-sounding songs, because I think it's more important that it's like, 'Hey! This is coming out of me. This is something I connect with. This is something that I like to sing.'
David Archuleta
Me
Important
Think
Hey
Out
Something
More
Songs
Like
Sing
Because
Coming
Connect
If critics were harder on the musicians that they love, there would be better songs. But as they grow older and they lose their talent, critics refuse to let them know that and protect them, and they get to the point where they put out music that just isn't up to the levels where they've already been.
David Berman
Love
Music
Musicians
Better
Lose
Older
Out
Would
Would-Be
Critics
Point
Songs
Put
Talent
Know
Protect
Were
Been
Up
Get
Just
Refuse
Where
Them
Grow
Harder
Levels
I bought a guitar when I was twenty. But I didn't write a song until I was 25 or 26. I never learned to play others songs. I learned to play my own songs while I was learning how to make them better.
David Berman
Learning
Song
Guitar
Better
Own
Others
My Own
Write
Never
Songs
Bought
Until
Make
Learned
How
While
Them
Twenty
Play
I was much further along as a poet than as a songwriter, but the songs were getting more attention. They were doing what art is supposed to do, mixing it up with people.
David Berman
Art
People
Poet
Further
More
Songs
Songwriter
Attention
Along
Supposed
Doing
Were
Mixing
Up
Than
Getting
Much
All my songs were made at the end of the neck, 'farmer's corner' chords.
David Berman
Made
Corner
Songs
Were
End
Farmer
Chords
Neck
That's the way I've always been, between the albums: For two- or three-year gaps I wouldn't pick up a guitar. And when I don't pick up a guitar for a year or two, that's when the songs fall out.
David Berman
Guitar
Year
Fall
Way
Out
Three-Year
Pick
Songs
Between
Always
Been
Up
Gaps
Albums
Two
For the first 12 years of recording I would finish the album, then on the day it came out I'd never hear the songs again.
David Berman
Day
Recording
First
Out
Would
Finish
Never
Songs
Came
Hear
Years
Again
Then
Album
The songs of mine that don't work, the ones that I wouldn't consider playing live for instance, fail to integrate their idiosyncracies. It's not that they fail because they're boring, but because they overreach.
David Berman
Work
Live
Consider
Mine
Boring
Songs
Instance
Fail
Because
Integrate
Playing
However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.
David Bowie
Strong
Type
Runs
Thread
Somehow
Through
Songs
Concept
However
Heathen
Any
Quite
Behind
Just
Thematic
Theme
Albums
Number
I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.
David Bowie
Myself
Song
Wish
Visual
Would
Prop
Colour
Songs
Vehicle
Like
Material
Want
Anything
Much
Expression
Necessary
I've always tended to write songs prolifically.
David Bowie
Write
Songs
Always
I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I've done for 25 years. I don't need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute.
David Bowie
Myself
Integrity
Money
Down
Something
Songs
Feel
Perform
Am
Real
Still
Years
Contribute
Any
Artist
Done
Cannot
Letting
Need
I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's a real enjoyment.
David Bowie
Band
Out
Guy
Songs
Idea
Real
Just
Being
Whole
Enjoyment
I think, bad times, I sit down and I play - there's definitely certain songs that touch in certain ways. I go back to 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven; that usually takes care of everything.
David Bryan
Care
Sit
Down
Think
Back
Everything
Ways
Definitely
Moonlight
Bad
Touch
Sonata
Bad Times
Songs
Takes
Go
Beethoven
Times
Certain
Play
We started out a long time ago, and we've managed to just keep writing current songs and have No. 1 current records.
David Bryan
Time
Writing
Long
Long Time
Out
Records
Songs
Long Time Ago
Current
Just
Keep
Started
I remember, when I was very young and going to the Fillmore East and watching three of my favorite bands in one night, I'd want a hit. I want to hear the songs that brought them to that pinnacle of success.
David Bryan
Success
Remember
Three
Young
Favorite
East
One-Night
Brought
Songs
Remember When
Hear
Pinnacle
Very
Hit
Bands
Going
Want
Them
Watching
Night
We're a bar band, so we know all the bar songs.
David Bryan
Band
Songs
Know
Bar
We strive to have new records. We strive to have new songs on the radio. That feels good that we can gain those new fans and still bring out our fans that have been with us for some of the ride or all of the ride.
David Bryan
Good
Ride
Fans
Our
Those
Strive
Out
Some
Records
Songs
Feels
New
Still
Been
New Songs
Gain
Us
Radio
Bring
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