James Vincent McMorrow Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• I made a note in my head to be aware of things as they were happening, because they might not happen again. Up to that point, I was not really that appreciative of what was going on, or thinking about documenting life in a plainspoken manner. I was talking about my life and writing songs, but then I would go back and listen and they were about dreams, and legends, and metaphors and that was just not my life!

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Dream, Song, Writing

  Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com

• I really wanted to get that dynamic on the record onto people and let them know it wasn't just a simple strumming along the guitar type of thing without ramming it down their throats so I kind of went the opposite way and sang some of the songs more quietly which allowed for the louder parts to sound as though there were more. It was the only way singing those songs made sense to me.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Song, Simple, Guitar

• Its always important to fall back on your instincts and core beliefs and that was pretty hard for me to do but trusting in my self the way I trusted that if I were to sit at a piano for two hours and I was going learn something, that trust I'd put in myself really helped me get through it. For five to six months I just wrote songs and believed they would turn out to be things I could be proud of and be happy.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Song, Fall, Self

• I write songs on a course of time that's comfortable for me. I would probably never write a song from start to finish in the course of a day, hell probably not even a week. My mind is always going to change and my emotional state will also change on a daily basis.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Song, Writing, Emotional

• I feel the reasons my songs might seem dark is because of how I viewed the situations I was in and it was just something I always felt like documenting.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Song, Dark, Might

• The hip-hop aesthetic and the way it's produced always motivated me. Alongside that I was still wanting to make great traditional songs because I've never had any desire to rap. My love of hip-hop is driven by my love of rappers, but it was built out of my love of producers.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Song, Rap, Hip Hop

  "James Vincent McMorrow, On the Move". Interview with Pimploy Phongsirivech, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2016.

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