Music Theme Quotes

Our songs all carry the same way.

I don't have one song about partying.

Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.

When I compose for any film, I always work with the story in mind.

When you are making an album, it is about the purpose - you are creating both a concept and vibe, then you follow through with that.

Well, it's funny because, "The Green Leaves of Summer" and "The Alamo" theme are the same thing. There's just - the Brothers Four was a different recording of it.

I think that soul, to me, is the theme of music that I connect with.

I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.

I wanna sing about something that's sexy and edgy.

I guess every superhero need his theme music.

I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.

I think the one that resonates the most with a lot of people is from The Scream album - 'Father, Mother, Son.'

Food was always a focus for us, lyrically.

As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of lots of different artists.

I would say that my music is surreal, it's inspired by dreams, and it's inspired by heartbreak.

It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about.

There were basically three themes. One was the sun theme which is the guitar when he'd get sun on his leg and it comes again in the end. And there's of course the lullaby which Dido sang, "If I Rise." And then there's this driving guitar which is the motivation theme.

I was aware of that theme of mortality in my music since around 2009. The decaying and the disappearance of the piano sound is very much symbolic of life and mortality. It's not sad. I just meditate about it.

Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, 'How does it feel?' And that always leads to love songs. It just does.

I want to make theme-setting music, music that sets a theme without being cliche.

A lot of [my] songs have a sexuality to them, a vibe to them. ... I call it sexy rock and roll.

Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records.

It's about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they've made love to my records so what I've delivered this time is an album about sex. Pretty much every song has that theme. Straight no chasers, it's booty music!

I didn't really want to write about music very much in 'High Fidelity.' I wanted to write about the relationship stuff, and the music stuff is kind of a bit of fun on top and something to frame it with.

When it's a rapper's album or a singer's album, there's a tendency to want a text-based or theme-based narrative.