Matthew Zapruder Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• Mimesis has longevity on its side. But Oasis wrote two of the greatest pop songs of all time, each with lyrics that mean less and less the more you think about them. So I'm going to have to go with the Gallagher brothers.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Song, Brother, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

• Music and songs have always been a constant part of my life, and still are. My brother Michael, who is a songwriter and composer, is the one who most fully inherited the musical legacy of our family, but I got some part of it - mostly the feel.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Song, Brother, Musical

  Source: therumpus.net

• I was thinking a little bit about this very thing - poetry and music - the other day when I was listening to Lucinda Williams. The way she sings is very emotive, and there is a kind of drag to her articulation: she sings behind the beat, sort of like she's being pulled along by the song a little, or is in resistance to it.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Song, Thinking, Listening

  Source: therumpus.net

• It's a kind of de-familiarization in relation to the song: if she were to sing absolutely straight, right on the beat, because of the richness and intensity of her instrument - her voice - I think it could actually feel a little inhuman, too good somehow, separate from our concerns.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Song, Thinking, Voice

  Source: therumpus.net

• Not that I play guitar anywhere near as well as she sings, but I think I have always had a tendency to play solos the same way, in emotional relation to the structure of the song. I choose simple lines, and only play what seems emotionally relevant, and often express that emotion in time, that is in play or resistance to the set time of the song.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Song, Simple, Emotional

  Source: therumpus.net

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