Beck Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.

  Beck

  Song, Sea, Albums

• I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.

  Beck

  Song, Work, Thinking

• I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this and they should sound like this," it gives you a direction. I like having that kind of assignment.

  Beck

  Song, Giving, Cartoon

  "Catching Up With Beck". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 2, 2010.

• Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.

  Beck

  Song, Writing, Fire

• I'm sure the music is going to come out. I'm not sure if I'm going to put out 12"s or put the songs on my website. I just have to get them done.

  Beck

  Song, Done, Music Is

  "Catching Up With Beck". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 2, 2010.

• There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever emotion that's invested into the song come through in the recording.

  Beck

  Song, Detours, Emotion

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

• The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set up. That went on for years.

  Beck

  Song, Years, Play

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

• Back then, Pro Tools only had four or eight tracks, so we couldn't actually hear all the tracks. We could only hear eight at a time, so if a song had 25 or 30 tracks, we wouldn't be able to hear it until we went into the studio an put it all on tape. The process was a little bit backwards.

  Beck

  Song, Eight, Track

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

• It was disturbing to me that an idea or a song could become something so different from what you originally intended. It's like if a friend took a stupid picture of you at a party on their phone, and the next thing you knew, it was on every billboard.

  Beck

  Song, Stupid, Party

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

• There are certain records from the 80s and early 90s that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production. Over the last 20 years, myself and a lot of other musicians my age have tried to discover things in 50s, 60s, and 70s recording techniques that were lost or discarded. We've all been trying to crack this code. It's been an important period in the last 15 years, reclaiming some of those lost approaches to making records.

  Beck

  Song, Love Is, Important

• There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.

  Beck

  Song, Love Is, Example

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

• There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the last few years than ever.

  Beck

  Song, Artist, Years

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

• As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

  Beck

  Change, Song, People

• I don't remember half of the new bands, though - and I think that's kind of where we're going. It's turning into just a big derby of songs. May the best song win.

  Beck

  Song, Thinking, Winning

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin