Joey Santiago Quotes

My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.

All the best songs have an element of sadness.

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

I miss the game - I miss it a lot.

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

Love was like rain: it turned into ice, or it disappeared. Now you saw it, now you couldn't find it no matter how hard you might search. Love evaporated; obsession was realer; it hurt, like a pin in your bottom, a stone in your shoe. It didn't go away in the blink of an eye. A morning phone call filled with regret. A letter that said, Dear you, good-bye from me. Obsession tasted like something familiar. Something you'd known your whole life. It settled and lurked; it stayed with you.

Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.

I miss us, too. I always have, and probably always will

I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.

I used to suffer from a lot of regret while touring. Regret at having to leave certain places, people and situations, or just a beautiful day.

I hadn't been practicing or playing or anything. But that had been a vital part of my life.

Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.

People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.

It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.

To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance.

I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it.

I think some of the best songs are written in love and then out of love. That's the best time to put something together.