Colin Meloy Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's songwriting, not the elaborate guitar solos. I'm a song person. Once it starts to break out of that structure and become loopy, it's uninteresting to me.

  Colin Meloy

  Song, Guitar, Stuff

  "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.

• I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it.

  Colin Meloy

  Song, Thinking, Should

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it. It has just as much power in creating a kind of perpendicular sentiment in the music, creating a nice friction that also plays up some of the tension in the song.

  Colin Meloy

  Song, Nice, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

• When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew that nobody was listening at the time and that it wouldn't hurt to challenge myself and get weirder and see if I could alienate more people

  Colin Meloy

  Song, Hurt, Writing

• It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs.

  Colin Meloy

  Song, Nice, Relief

  "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.

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