John Mellencamp Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• Rock'n'roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things, it's a great rock song.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Heart, Rocks

• I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Thinking, Guy

• I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Writing, People

• In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Thinking, Trying

  "Millencamp Talks About Writing Musical With Stephen King" by Archive-Eric-Schumacher-Rasmussen, www.mtv.com. August 20, 2001.

• This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Writing, Rocks

• I just think if the song's good, sing it. I don't care who's doing it. I don't care if it's a country act. I don't care if it's a rock act. If the song's good, sing it.

  John Mellencamp

  Country, Song, Thinking

• A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Taken, Woody

• Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Couple, Two

• I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into any conversation.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Information, Canvas

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Years, Voice

• I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Writing, Worry

  "Mellencamp Talks About Writing Musical With Stephen King" by Eric Schumacher Rasmussen, www.mtv.com. August 20, 2001.

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