Craig Finn Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• One of the things is my process requires a lot of repetition. I can probably drive people crazy because I'm interested in playing a song twenty times in a row.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Crazy, People

  Source: therumpus.net

• I remember I was really into this British band, The Vapors, with that song "Turning Japanese." I thought that they were really next level genius cryptic weirdos. And then I realized when I got older they are just using a lot of British words, and I didn't know what they meant. But I thought, Oh, they are making up their own language.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Next Level, Band

  Source: therumpus.net

• If you wait four or five years between records, it better be a masterpiece, you know? And if you keep putting them out, you're saying, 'Hey, here's 10 more songs'.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Years, Waiting

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. May 17, 2010.

• In the end, when you're writing a really good song, it strikes the right tone.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Writing, Tone

  Source: therumpus.net

• You are hearing this song, and you're 16, and it's a song about love, or a girl. And then maybe there's a girl at school that you like. So you're going to be thinking about that girl. That song is sort of about that girl. The songwriter doesn't know that girl, obviously. He wrote it for something else. But there's the specific meaning with the universal again.

  Craig Finn

  Girl, Song, School

  Source: therumpus.net

• An album doesn't mean as much to a lot of people now, compared to just songs.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Mean, People

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. May 17, 2010.

• There's this moment sometimes, when you do a crossword puzzle and you have the one really long word. And once you get that, the whole thing kind of comes into focus. Sometimes it's just working things over in your mind and then finding that one line that kind of ties the song together, and now it works. It's a puzzle of sorts.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Ties, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

• I think making the songs is to put strength in the community in some way.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Thinking, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

• I can still sing most Eagles songs, even though I never bought a record and never liked the band.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Eagles, Band

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2005.

• I think the biggest thing - and this I think is true of songs but also of movies and books and art in general - is when you have this moment where you hear a song or whatever and you say, "Hey, I've felt that exact way as a human being," and there's no easy way to describe it.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Art, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

• The reality is that the shows kind of disconnect from the songs a little bit. You're playing the songs, but they take on a life of their own.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Reality, Littles

  Source: therumpus.net

• When we started the band, I was really like, "We just want to make a lot of records" - not quite unlike Guided By Voices' schedule. I've always thought that our live thing is what we do best, and having a really robust, big catalog makes for the most interesting live band - especially with people, at this point, traveling to see us night after night. For us to have almost 100 songs to pull from is a really cool thing. The sets can be different. They can be invigorating on an intellectual level. I definitely hope to continue to release records at an accelerated pace.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Night, People

• I think when you are doing a song you're trying to give people enough details that they connect.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

• I've tried to write songs for other people and it usually requires them singing it and then changing the phrasing. I can put a lot of words in a song, and one of the reasons is, I'm not that good of a singer, so I don't hold a lot of notes.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: therumpus.net

• The Replacements are the foundation for a lot of what came after in alternative and college rock. Let It Be is their best record and has the most diverse collection of songs. Some pop stuff, some heavy stuff, and some real moments of beauty like 'Sixteen Blue' and 'Androgynous.' It's a record I always go back to.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Real, College

  "The Hold Steady's 10 Rock Albums Every Man Should Own" by Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. March 25, 2014.

• I use a lot of specific places in my songs - traditionally, a lot from Minneapolis and St. Paul, where I grew up. Most people, especially when you get into international touring, have not been there. So you say, "Well, isn't it risky to talk about the corner of Franklin Avenue and Lyndale?" If you do it right, someone should say, "God, I know a corner like that." Offering specific details to describe something universal.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Offering, People

  Source: therumpus.net

• I don't really pursue writing songs for other people. I guess one of the things I always think about is a good line in a song should be something I can hear myself saying.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

• It's good to have some kind of California in there. It's almost always appropriate. It's appropriate on a sunny day or late at night. If you grew up on the Grateful Dead, which I certainly did, you listened to 10 million bootlegs. But you realize that American Beauty has some really tight, well-arranged songs that aren't meandering.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Grateful, Night

  "The Hold Steady's 10 Rock Albums Every Man Should Own" by Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. March 25, 2014.

• Sometimes people come up and say, "You have this line in this song and it meant a lot to me." You don't always remember that line as the one. You're putting part of your human being on the page so people are going to have different responses - the other humans are going to connect with different parts.

  Craig Finn

  Song, People, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

• I'm able to draw outside my own personal experiences. No one wants to hear the song about what I really did today, which is go get coffee and clean my apartment.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Coffee, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

• It's a template record for the intersection between pop and noise, starting out with 'Sunday Morning' - a real beautiful, almost innocent sunny day song. You have a lot of different types of things on one record. It can be really pretty, or it can be really awful inside, depending on where your head's at at the moment. I got it in ninth grade and I think I've listened to it every month since then.

  Craig Finn

  Beautiful, Song, Morning

• I think you want to write a song that's like the songs you are into.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

• I really like narrative songs, but I wonder if that's a thing for some people. Once they've heard the story, do they really need to hear the story again?

  Craig Finn

  Song, People, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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