Musical Rendition Quotes

I'm really not a songwriter, so if I hear a song, I feel it and like it, I'll do it. But I'll make it the way I want to hear it.

If you thought Stairway to Heaven was a long song, dear god you should listen to it played on a lute.

My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they change in that way. But it's more the nature of the words and what they're saying that determines whether it's a poem or a song.

[A]s soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something gets lost and it's like a moment where, in that moment you forget how it was and it's this new way. And then when you make a record, even those ideas that you had, then those get all turned and changed. So in the end, I think, it just becomes it's own thing and really I think a song could be recorded a million different ways and so what my records are, it just happened like that, but it's not like, this is how I planned it from the very beginning because I have no idea, I can't remember.

Sing!" Grandpa Smedry yelled, his voice echoing down a hallway to the right."Sing!" If he breaks into song I think I might have to strangle myself... I thought, cringing.

The idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely exciting.

I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.

No one wants to hear me crooning a ballad.

The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it.

I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.

The thing about covers is that the first thing you're going to notice is the vocals, because it's not the same person.

I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first.

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

Colin Blunstone did a cover of one of my songs, and the reason I liked it was he changed it completely from my version.

When we were writing the 'Stage' album, we realized we'd never really done proper covers, where we were taking songs and making them our own and kind of playing around with them. I came up with the idea of doing a cover of 'Wish You Were Here,' but we didn't really want it on the record.

I worked out the keyboard parts on the progressive rock classic 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' and somehow managed to play it all on acoustic guitar.