Will Sheff Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• I think that anything is a form of folk music. That's just me being glib, but the thing I like the best about humans, and there are not many other things besides this, is that humans make culture. If you're an artist, a big part of folk is noticing what other people are doing and incorporating it and changing it - the way that songs warp and change over time.

  Will Sheff

  Song, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.spin.com

• Culture dictated from above is the enemy of folk music. Whether it's stuffy classical music or pre-engineered pop where somebody's paid tons of money to make sure that everyone hears this song a certain number of times a day - that feels like the opposite of folk music.

  Will Sheff

  Song, Opposites, Numbers

  Source: www.spin.com

• I was always one of these people who is irrationally moved by stupid pop songs.

  Will Sheff

  Song, Stupid, People

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. May 1, 2007.

• If I'm working on a set of songs, and thinking about putting them together in a collection, I start to think about what they have in common. Either on purpose or without meaning to, I shape them all in the same kind of way, because I'd rather the album feel like a galaxy of things that all have to do with each other. I do that with sonic elements, too - it's a matter of each record having its own specific identity.

  Will Sheff

  Song, Thinking, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

• It's a really common trap to want your life to live up to some standard that you believe in, and then you start to really examine those standards and realize they come not from experiences you've had, but things you've seen in movies, or feelings you've felt listening to pop songs, or ideas you've received from reading books. And not just happy things, but a lot of the time, sad things. It gets kind of depressing, when you see how movies and songs make these promises to us.

  Will Sheff

  Song, Depressing, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Everybody has had the experience of something they love - whether it's a pop song or a painting or a movie - feeling so perfect to them that it's almost like it came from another planet. It has nothing to do with ordinary life, which is very plain. And there's something depressing about that in a way, because you feel like you're this small little human, and you feel like it has nothing to do with you.

  Will Sheff

  Depressing, Song, Perfect

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I was never a kid who dreamt of being a performer. I started singing the songs because nobody knew who I was or cared at all. If I wasn't going to sing them, nobody was going to sing them, so I had to step in and fill that role myself.

  Will Sheff

  Song, Kids, Singing

  Source: www.avclub.com

• If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals or the production or the vibe. There was performance and then there was the song, and that was all that you had.

  Will Sheff

  Song, Guitar, Acoustics

  Source: www.spin.com

• When you're a songwriter, people wonder about your personal life and the meanings behind the songs, and that can feel pretty invasive, so you become protective about your inner world.

  Will Sheff

  Song, People, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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