Robin Pecknold Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• I only write maybe one or two songs every couple of years that I think are good enough to play alone without other stuff happening.

  Robin Pecknold

  Song, Couple, Writing

• A label is like a bank with all these really important relationships, and maybe an aesthetic or a point of view. But if you only want to release two songs, you don't need the guy who can talk to all the retailers, because they're not going to stock two songs.

  Robin Pecknold

  Song, Guy, Important

• I've thought about doing a subscription service, where people pre-pay and then we send them 12"s as they're finished, with one song on each side. That would be really fun. But we'll need a significant time off from touring to be able to fulfill that.

  Robin Pecknold

  Song, Fun, People

• As far as the music being inspired by Seattle, I think it's in some of the songs. Seattle is a really beautiful place in the right light, it's perched on a pretty unique geographic setting.

  Robin Pecknold

  Beautiful, Song, Unique

• The simpler songs are just done when the lyric has been stated; the more complex or band-oriented stuff can go in a million directions.

  Robin Pecknold

  Song, Done

• The only thing I think about is doing something where I'm the only person making all the decisions - I think that would be fun to do, just to get it out of my system. And honestly, I kind of got it out of my system when I recorded three songs and put them online. That was enough of a solo experience for me; it scratched that itch.

  Robin Pecknold

  Song, Fun, Thinking

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