David Berman Quotes

To write a song and have it embraced by someone, even one person, I don't think that's something that everyone gets to experience.

Some people take pictures; I write songs.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

Once it's out there in the universe, it's serving its purpose, and I'm proud to have other folks hear the music that I was a part of making.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

I'd rather be a musician than a rock star.

Street artists want to add something to the environment. They consider the audience, whereas graffiti writers don't care about anyone except themselves, they do it purely for the kick.

When I write lyrics for Priest, I'm writing them for Priest. I'm not writing them for me.

As an artist, it feels good that we've created something that is connecting with the audience, which is what we always strive to do.

I'm just going to sing my music; I'm going to write my songs, and I think that people get to know me in that sense.

If you want to be an entertainer and just keep your audience happy, that's one thing. But to be an artist, I think, means ultimately primarily pleasing yourself, and in that respect, you constantly have this sense of confronting the expectations of your audience.

MCs are authors, and rock musicians who write lyrics are authors, to a degree.

I'm very proud of it. 'Hunchback' contains some of my favorite music I've ever written in my life.

The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in.

I don't play everything I write. I mean, everything I write is not that good. I bring out into the world the ones I think that are really worthy of an audience's attention.

First of all, I'm not a singer or rapper. I'm an artiste. Besides singing, I produce music, dance, write poetry, and sometimes I paint as well.

For me, it's important to ask what are you making, and what's the public's relationship to that. And I say public relationship because I don't really care so much about any sort of reception.

I've got a talent, and people enjoy my songs, people love my songs; why stop?

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.

I don't want to focus too much on trying to write a song for radio.

Language' is, I think, my favorite song that I've ever written.

Success isn't dependent on the market place, because I can't control that. It's about completing a good song.

I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am.

I wouldn't want to write a song in a pair of sneakers. I think it would be a horrible song.