Fiona Apple Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• I really, really enjoy fitting words together - but I only enjoy it when it's easy, when it sort of rolls along by itself. I never erase anything [and] I hardly ever write anything down... The song will be finished before I write it down... I won't write a song unless it serves me in some way, unless I feel I have to write the song to make myself feel better. If you're not overflowing with something, there's nothing to give.

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Writing, Feel Better

• He goes along just as a water lily
  Gentle on the surface of his thoughts his body floats
  Unweighed down by passion or intensity
  Yet unaware of the depth upon which he coasts
  And he finds a home in me
  For what misfortune sows, he knows my touch will reap

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Passion, Home

  Song: Pale September, Album: Tidal, 1996

• I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Writing, Wanted

• Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Awkward, Hearing

• "The way I feel about music -- any song, any style -- is that there is no right and wrong, only true and false. If the music and lyrics are conceived out of honesty and if the production of the song goes along with its original message, then what has been expressed is art, regardless of what anyone's opinion is of it. So things are a lots impler if you just tell the truth.

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Art, Honesty

• I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs. Now, rather than trying to talk or do a costume change, I'll use those moments for myself. I listen to what other people are playing, or just rest, or dance, even though I don't know how to.

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Thinking, People

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. June 4, 2012.

• I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs.

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Thinking, Uncomfortable

  Source: pitchfork.com

• One of my friends said to me, "Oh yeah, of course you aren't writing." So I was like, "The next time you see me, I'm gonna have a new song." I wrote "Criminal" in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Writing, Next Time

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Writing, Enough Time

  Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, sfj.abstractdynamics.org. October 4, 2005.

• You know, the age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19? I'm up here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something, or I wouldn't have been nominated for Best New Artist. Sometimes it's like, "You're right. My mother wrote these songs."

  Fiona Apple

  Mother, Song, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Jobs, Writing

• There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Writing, Months

• I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Writing, Want

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