Zooey Deschanel Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it’s a song, a stranger, a mountain, a tea kettle, an article, a sentence, a footstep -feel it all. Look around you. All of this is for you. Take it and have gratitude. Give it and feel love.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Song, Gratitude, Powerful

• I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Christmas, Song, Singing

• That's one of the most exciting things for me about listening to records: It's a moment in time, and the less it's messed with the more powerful it is. I wanted at least one song on the record to be just completely about the moment.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Song, Powerful, Listening

• I've been writing music since I was about eight. I would write sporadically. I wrote a lot of music in high school. I guess the oldest song on the record ("I Thought I Saw Your Face") is about eight years old. It's the old "I had my whole life to write my first album and six months to write the second one." I did, to some degree, but actually, a lot of the songs that ended up on the record, I wrote really recently. So it varies.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Song, Writing, School

  "Zooey Deschanel thrilled to be in She & Him". Interview with Marc Hirsh, www.today.com. March 18, 2008.

• I love to play music, and this is fun, and let's record this stuff in a way that we both like. That was exciting enough, so we just recorded it. There was no business in it until the very last minute, really. It was really as much of an extension of me writing the songs in my bedroom as it could possibly be.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Song, Fun, Writing

  "Zooey Deschanel thrilled to be in She & Him". Interview with Marc Hirsh, www.today.com. March 18, 2008.

• I always have loved music, ever since I was really little. I just loved to sing. I can't really explain it, except maybe - and this is going to sound really stupid - when I would listen to a song it would make me more excited than anything else could.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Song, Stupid, Sound

  "She & Him". Interview with Mike Carriere, pitchfork.com. April 21, 2008.

• Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Song, Needs, Dollars

• I'm always interested in hearing how other people read and react to my songs. I hadn't thought of it in just that way.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Song, People, Way

  "She & Him". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 15, 2010.

• It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Song, Nice, Romance

• One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it's my right as an artist not to be affected by the reactions of those people that are going to hear my songs.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Song, Artist, People

  "She & Him". Interview with Mike Carriere, pitchfork.com. April 21, 2008.

• I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Song, Clever, Simple

• I also feel like it's the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean. Sometimes people will see things that I don't see.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Song, Mean, People

  "She & Him". Interview with Mike Carriere, pitchfork.com. April 21, 2008.

• It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music - my taste in chord progressions and melodies.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Song, Mean, Writing

  "Zooey Deschanel Can Play the Ukulele". Interview with Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. July 17, 2009.

• I'm always interested in hearing how other people read and react to my songs. I hadn't thought of it in just that way. One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it's my right as an artist not to be affected by the reactions of those people that are going to hear my songs. But I also feel like it's the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean. Sometimes people will see things that I don't see.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Song, Mean, Artist

• Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My Baby Just Cares for Me,' I wish I had written 'This Will Be Our Year,' I mean, there's millions of them. 'Wouldn't It Be Nice?'

  Zooey Deschanel

  Song, Baby, Nice

  "Zooey Deschanel Can Play the Ukulele". Interview with Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. July 17, 2009.

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