Quotes About Evolution

I'm about to sing the song for the future.

'Fade To Black' - just this amazing construct: a song that defied the definition of what Metallica was perceived to be at the time.

Every time I re-perform a song, I gain some perspective.

By the time one song gains popularity, another one is introduced.

I am one of the few singers who has reinvented oneself with every song.

Hollywood has realised that we do have actors and are not just mad about song and dance.

My idea of my music is constantly changing so I feel like how other people react to my old songs just ends up putting more pressure on myself from my own perspective.

'Drip or Drown 2' is more me, more songs. I enhanced it more, even with the cover itself.

We didn't play any Joy Division songs for 10 years after the start of New Order, which was a very honourable thing to do even if it meant shooting ourselves in the foot.

I think, after 'Let Her Go,' I wanted to show people that I don't just write really sad love songs about my ex-girlfriend: that there's another side to Passenger as well that's a bit more up-tempo and more inclined to social commentary.

Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back.

I'm just growing so quickly, so my songs are quickly changing on me. But it's fine. I love them for what they are and what they were, to me.

Many pop songs seem to be more potent now than in their heyday.

I've done a couple of songs which are not up to the mark. So, mentally, I've set a goal that I should be more dynamic and try and push myself as much as I can.

Songs like 'Outfit' and 'Decoration Day' and 'Dress Blues,' those were good songs, but the output wasn't as consistent in those days.

People have been writing songs and poems since the time we had brains.

I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.

I can remember - barely - when Elton John was still a good songwriter, or at least capable of writing good songs.

It's cool that our stuff is received as it is, and our stuff is fairly long. But from a songwriter's purview as well as an exercise, I'm trying to write shorter material and find ways to condense ideas.

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.

I didn't want to be this four-chord acoustic singer songwriter because that stuff just got so old to me.

I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'

I've learned and grown as a songwriter.

Every so often, you have a producer or a songwriter or both or a team that comes along and really reshapes and redefines sonically what music is and the interpretation of it to the masses.