Mac DeMarco Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• I mean, Lady Gaga is trying to be a freak or whatever but that quality of being very meaningly and heartfelt, but also having a sense of humor about it, bands don't do that anymore. Lady Gaga's songs are cheesy. The Beatles weren't cheesy. That's the hardest thing with music: to not be cheesy, but also be meaningful. That's the goal, I think.

  Mac DeMarco

  Meaningful, Song, Thinking

  Source: www.self-titledmag.com

• Once a song comes out, these songs aren't mine. They're everybody's. So there you go.

  Mac DeMarco

  Song, Mines

  Source: www.self-titledmag.com

• We went on tour with Phoenix. I don't really know anything about Phoenix I'd heard a couple songs. And I thought, I don't really know if I want to go on this, it's kind of weird, kind of a pain in the ass for us. But everyone was like YOU HAVE TO DO IT, it's going to be so good for your career. And I mean I don't know if it was good for our career but the guys in the band were super huge sweethearts.

  Mac DeMarco

  Song, Couple, Pain

  Source: www.quipmag.com

• [Chamber of Reflection off of Salad Days]I think it's probably that one. There's no guitar on that song, I've never recorded a song with absolutely no guitar, which is interesting. The idea behind it, well it's a Free Mason reference because before they become Free Mason's they had to go into this room called the Chamber of Reflection where they think about the life they brought with them, the life they've lived up until this point and all their wrong and right doings. And that's basically what I did with this album.

  Mac DeMarco

  Song, Reflection, Thinking

  Source: www.quipmag.com

• I had a band called the Sound Of Love and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played in some other indie bands who were trying to make it big; those sucked. Then I started Makeout Videotape and that was that.

  Mac DeMarco

  Girl, Song, School

  "Mac DeMarco: 'I live like a scumbag, but it's cheap'". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2014.

• Going on tour, you don't have a lot of time to mull things over. You're just kind of, "Another beer, another show, another song."

  Mac DeMarco

  Song, Beer, Over You

  Source: www.mtv.com

• I do get labeled as a guitar band, but the only reason is that's the instrument I know how to play. The guitar is serving the song I'm writing. But I'm learning how to play keyboard better now so that'll start serving the song as well; it'll be another flavor. I'm not going to switch it up with big, fat drum machine beats and real swoopy synths, but yeah...

  Mac DeMarco

  Song, Real, Writing

  Source: www.self-titledmag.com

• The time came around where the label was like, "Well, if you want something to come out in early 2017, it's going to have to be done by, like, so-and-so." So I plucked some of the old songs and wrote some new ones. Everybody keeps asking me, "Is this your L.A. record?" I was doing songs in a bedroom in New York, I was doing it in a bedroom in L.A. The only difference is when I look out the window, there's palm trees instead of snow.

  Mac DeMarco

  Song, Snow, Tree

  Source: www.mtv.com

• The songs that I'm able to write are the songs I'm able to write, whatever they may be. The path I've cut for myself is pop music - love-y pop music. That's what I enjoy doing. And I don't think I'm going to get sick of it anytime soon.

  Mac DeMarco

  Song, Writing, Cutting

  Source: www.self-titledmag.com

• If I feel like I'm going too far in one direction, I just can it. It's a weird thing. Some of my songs might be cheesy; I try and keep it light. It's hard to explain.

  Mac DeMarco

  Song, One Direction, Light

  Source: www.self-titledmag.com

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