We really take our music seriously and we take the band very seriously. But we have a lot of personality. So if we're going to write a song about kissing a girl, we're gonna write it. And people think we're a funny band, but we're just realistic, we put our personality into our lyrics.
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We've been able to have our cake and eat it, too. Every song, every T-shirt, is absolutely a pure expression of what we want to do. And it connects.
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The song will be FCC friendly.
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I was really trying to anchor down the band. We should explore this new song, but we've got to have a certain element that will have our old fans listening and enjoying it while gaining a whole bunch of new fans. I was definitely worried. But first and foremost we wanted to write songs that did inspire us. That was the most important part because we didn't want to write an album that we just hated before it even came out.
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Sometimes I have an idea and I'll kind of write the idea down and sort of tinker away at it until I come up with lyrics around it and see where it's going. Sometimes I have the lyrics in my head and sometimes I imagine another artists singing the lyrics, like a famous person singing the lyrics, and that's kind of how I figure out how they should sound based on who I would want to sing the song.
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On tour, there was a young girl that came up to me and said if it wasn't for the song 'Home' she had felt that she wouldn't be here anymore. She related to that song so much that it apparently saved her life.
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To be totally honest with you, I actually didn't meet them. Technically it wasn't so much of a collaboration because the song was written.
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From the time the idea of the song came to me it's been my vision that the song help people to see this march as more than just a march but a movement.
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We figured we knew just about every song you could know in Newfoundland and.. There's probably six on this record that we'd never heard before
We haven't met a single soul who's ever heard that song. He doesn't know where he heard it -- he can't remember.
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My father and I met Lead Belly in the Angola Penitentiary in 1933. We came there looking for the roots of American black song, and we certainly found them with Lead Belly.
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The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.
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We were doing a benefit for this Spanish cause, the Spanish Loyalists who were fighting against Franco, and Woody was on the show. It was one of the first nights he was in New York. He stepped out on the stage, this little tiny guy, big bushy hair, with this great voice and his guitar, and just electrified us all. I remember the first song I heard him sing: Mention Dirty to My Heart.
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[Aficianados will enjoy the unprecedented new music from notorious recluse Willis Alan Ramsey. His cult status rests on the one album he ever recorded, self-titled in 1972 -- one of those records nobody heard, except the hundreds of musicians it inspired. Clapton's contribution, in addition to guitar on a few other tracks, is a recording of a sweet, moseying Ramsey song called] Positively... Sympathy for a Train.
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Personally, I kind of stumbled into it, many moons ago. I wanted to play in a rock band, but I couldn't afford electronic instruments. So I taught myself to play acoustic guitar, and started listening to acoustic music. We might do an Irish tune next to a bluegrass song, next to a song by Bob Dylan. Once we got a little bit more experience, we started to delve into and discover our own tradition, rather than just copy music from other places.
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Without a doubt that song has special meaning for me because it created so many things for me that might have never been there otherwise,.. You know there are certain songs I could never leave out of the mix, and that one is certainly at the top of the list.
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If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.
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With 'One Little Victory,' I love the idea that Neil is the one who starts the record and he starts it with such a fury and it just says, 'We're back.' And the whole sentiment of that song about being aware of those little successes -- the daily little things that really count -- that we so often take for granted.
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On the last day of school, it's the national anthem. On that day, it's the most popular song on the planet. (Laughs.) I become Francis Scott Key for one day.
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I must not think of thee; and, tired yet strong, / I shun the thought that lurks in all delight - / The thought of thee - and in the blue heaven's height, / And in the sweetest passage of a song.
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Every song I write, even if it's fiction, I have to draw from something in my life to connect it with before it rings true,.. Early on in my career, I had points where I felt like I may have run out of ideas. Now I know that if I'm short of ideas, I need to take some time off and let the well fill up.. And live life because that's where the best songs come from.
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Every song is different,.. If they come fast that's wonderful. But if they don't, that's OK, too. You just have to be patient and do whatever is required to write the song as good as possible and as true as possible.
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Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska.
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When you look at how quickly that song grew on the charts, it was a one-listen [thing]. When you have that kind of connection out of the gate, it only gets bigger from there.
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We just really want to get in because we know if we get to do that song (Shackles), we have a really good chance
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