Song Essence Quotes

I always try to get back to the original source of the song. It's not always there in the sheet music, which is sometimes just a sketchy blueprint of what the song is about.

The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song.

To me, a song is a song when you can sit in a room and just sing it from end to end.

Songs are songs, and to reduce them is to waste them.

Every song has a heart, and I just go for that.

You can't lose the essence of a song. I try to enhance it more than anything else.

I don't care if it's a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton John, or you know, whoever, Bob Dylan. Great songs are great songs, and they stand the test of time, and they can be interpreted and recorded with many points of view, but yet still retain the essence of what makes them good songs.

During 'Torches,' I was more concerned with communicating the spirit of the song than the actual lyrics.

When you listen to the music in this film [Despicable Me], it's working on the level of melody, but the other key element is lyrics. There are a number of songs in the film where the lyrics themselves are very much speaking to the essence of what Ted Geisel was setting out to do.

A great song is a great song.

With a band like Shenandoah, you don't want to take things and deconstruct them to a point where you don't recognize them.

I feel like if it's a good song on a guitar, it's a good song no matter what.

You kind of have to become a song so to speak and we wanted to make sure that Tom did them with the best abilities he had and captured all that what the song is all about.