Pastoral Resources

My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.

Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way.

The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.

It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.

I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time.

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.

One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns.

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America.

Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more. People feel much more connected to the song because there's nothing in the way, and I actually enjoy doing that.

We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.

All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.