Song Difficulty Quotes

Maybe it is true what they say, that playing these Chuck Berry songs is easy. But try singing them. The words come out hard, like bullets.

I do like performing 'I'll Take Your Man,' because that was a hard song.

'Crash' is the hardest song I've ever sang in my whole life. It's the lowest in my vocal register and the highest in my register, all within 15 seconds.

I can't think of a recent baseball song except John Fogerty's Centerfield. It's very difficult to write a baseball song that pleases fans and non-fans alike.

The thing about the national anthem is that it's actually a pretty difficult song to sing for anybody.

'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot of my songs aren't that doable.

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.

I always tell people that it's so much harder to make a happy song than a sad one.

I don't think anyone does Rush songs except for Rush.

Oh, I'll tell you about 'Anyone Can Whistle' - the lesson I learned with doing that record is that the simplest songs are the hardest to do.

The challenges change depending on the song. There are some songs where the lyrics are really a challenge and then there are other songs where the lyrics are there and the music is a challenge. And then you've got rock songs where the challenge is the tightness of the arrangement with the band. The music and the lyrics are there, but it's a challenge to get the arrangement correct. So I wouldn't be able to point to one thing. What the challenge is changes all of the time.

For listeners, the song 'Kehne ko jashn-e-baharaa hai' looks a very easy number. In fact, it was a challenge to sing the song as I had to really suppress my voice and make it appear like a casual track.

'The Last Five Years' is this quintessential piece, and every song is an actor's song, and every song is incredibly difficult and incredibly powerful and incredibly amazing. It was one of those things in college where, like, you gauged how good you were by how well you were able to pull off a song from 'The Last Five Years.'

Some songs are dead easy, and others can be quite challenging. Other times, you just have to put it in the bin.

I don't have many easy songs.

It's actually harder to write a fun song.