Pastoral Resources

I like songs that go to different places and then come back.

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

You know what they should call this war - Son of Bush vs. Son of a Bitch.

We sing a little song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and it's really - we're thanking the Lord and the Earth for the food that we eat, and it really brings you together in a profound kind of way.

Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.

And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation.

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

I'm a rompin', stompin', piano playing son of a bitch. A mean son of a bitch.

All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.

We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them.

In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on one song, we'd switch on the next song; I'd play piano... we'd play mandolin.

I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.