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A good song never gets old.
A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.
If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'
I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
If it's a good song, it doesn't really matter if it's trendy or not. It will hit.
If my role in a film is meaty, and I get a good song along with it, then why not?
I'm just looking for that one song that I know everybody's going to be like, 'Damn, that's a good song.'
When I get into the studio, it's not about trying to get a good song, it's about whatever comes naturally.
A good song gathers the years in. It's why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it's been written.
You kinda don't know what's going to make a good song. You've got to shoot around in the dark for a little while.
A good song should give you a lot of images; you should be able to make your own little movie in your head to a good song.
I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.
There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.
I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.
Nobody ever thinks a song is about them. Well, not when it's mean. When it's a good song everybody thinks it's about them. And when it's mean, nobody thinks it's about them.
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.
It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done.
I feel like 'Beware' is a heartfelt song - it's something that is definitely a story, something that I cultivated from personal stories, some from just other stories in just wanting to make a good song.
If I get a song - a good song - I just sing it the way I hear it in my head. If anybody else wanted to add whistles and bells and chains rattling, that's fine. Just not too much. I actually just do things as straight ahead as possible.
I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play this and get the song over, I don't take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar.
You can tell if something feels special. But there are so many moving parts involved in making the song a hit. The radio has to deliver, the management has to deliver in terms of booking the right promotions... just being a good song isn't enough.