Neko Case Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• People get strange about whether you've written your own songs, which seems really stupid considering that, especially in Country Music, it's about oral tradition and passing things on and the songs weren't meant to be played by one person and then forgotten.

  Neko Case

  Country, Song, Stupid

  "Neko Case: Thrice All American". Interview with Michaelangelo Matos, www.furious.com.

• I remember people would talk about Country Music like it was this sexist, lame thing. Well, no, because Dolly Parton is writing songs and playing her guitar and producing. She's doing it all and she's got hits on the radio.

  Neko Case

  Country, Song, Writing

  "MusicfestNW 2013: When Neko Met K.D". Interview with Robert Ham, www.wweek.com. August 27, 2013.

• Rich kids who write songs about food stamps always piss me off. I'm not going to write any songs about that, either.

  Neko Case

  Song, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I try to think of the songs as little movies. They're always pretty visual to me. I can always sort of see them. I don't always know what the end result is going to be, and I don't know exactly what it's going to sound like, but I can kinda see them.

  Neko Case

  Song, Thinking, Trying

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 23, 2009.

• You're not supposed to totally know what's happening. The songs are supposed to give you clues so you can fill in the blanks.

  Neko Case

  Song, Giving, Clue

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. April 10, 2006.

• There's this art form in songwriting that's incredibly difficult - to be really funny in a song and also really touching. I can't do that.

  Neko Case

  Song, Art, Touching

• I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.

  Neko Case

  Song, Writing, People

• I have a real dog-like mentality, in that it's like, 'Where is my next meal coming from? Am I ever gonna eat again? Will I ever write another song again? Will anyone show up for tour?' I think it comes from being really poor as a kid.

  Neko Case

  Dog, Song, Real

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