Song Discovery Quotes

People don't really listen to albums anymore. They just find good songs.

I'm always looking for great songs, and not being much of a songwriter, I depend on great songwriters to send them to me. I go through tons of stuff, and sometimes you just find material that kind of fits and becomes something special.

I think great songs can come from anywhere and you constantly have to be able to look out for those. I think a lot of the times people will try too hard to write everything themselves and therefor miss out on great songs that way.

No one would ever have heard Marcus Hummon's version of 'Cowboy, Take Me Away' if he hadn't recorded it on the Sampler. I would have heard it because I hear him sing all the time, but no one else would have been able to enjoy it, and now they can and will be able to for years.

It's easier for fans to consume one or two songs at a time. Not everybody buys records, so some songs can get overlooked.

When a song blows your mind the first time you hear it, you don't know where it's going. It's blowing your mind as it's unfolding. Then there's that sensation that you're actually going to remember the song.

You've got to stay current and up with the competition. The main thing, though, is finding the greatest songs you can possibly find.

In 2007, several musicologists contacted me at about the same time, expressing interest in the work of the mysterious Muriel Herbert, a few of whose songs they had come across.

My folks bought a baby grand piano and that's where I did the majority of figuring out the songs I heard on the stereo.

You never know how people are going to find songs for their records. Sometimes people will hear songs on someone else's record and really like 'em.

'Drive,' that's the one. I love dozens of songs by R.E.M., but that's the one, even though it took me 7 or 8 years to start liking it.

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

'Tum Jo Mile' came as a surprise. Vivek and Kumaar sir, who has written the song, sent me the track just to listen. I was in London at the time for my world tour. I heard the song, and I fell in love with it instantly.

There's nothing more frustrating than when you hear a track and you can never find out what it is.

If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep.