Song Evaluation Quotes

I don't listen to my songs. The only time I do it is when someone points out a flaw in the end product.

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

'Rockaway Beach' is a great song, and so is 'Listen to My Heart.'

I think, sometimes, artists release music too fast. If you just sit back and listen to the track for a little bit you could pick and choose how you want to do it and see if you really feel the song, because sometimes you might not even like the song after a few listens.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.

One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.

After much inner debate, I can safely proclaim that Mungo Jerry's 'In the Summertime' may, in fact, be the best song ever recorded.

Timbaland's so wishy-washy sometimes - he'll hate a song at first and then love it, and then maybe go back to not liking it as much as something else.

If it were bad songs, yeah, I'd speak up, but they're not bad songs.

I think 'Invisible' is a great song, but I don't know how accessible it is.

I loved that song ["Don't Tell Me"], but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for Van Halen.

When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.

I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.

Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.

I think every song Slipknot has written is a greatest hit, but there are only four records.

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

I know when I've written a good song when I can imagine the video. If I can't imagine the video straight away, I'm not gonna put it on my album.

I think a lot of our songs are good.

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.

It’s very difficult for me to appreciate my own songs as I criticise them a lot.

I never think any song really feels like a 'hit' - a song either feels good or bad, in my opinion.

I make it a point to listen to a song before being a part of it to ensure that there is nothing offensive or downgrading.

There are so many artists, so many songs, so many producers, that it's hard to keep track of whose music is worthwhile.

I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.