Song Quotes by Gord Downie

I feel like I'm playing the washboard more than the guitar.

— Gord Downie

We're a band. We're hired for parties. We have to know what to do.

— Gord Downie

Nobody ever asks me about my lyrics.

— Gord Downie

When someone gives you a piece of music, they are really giving you a piece of themselves.

— Gord Downie

I write lyrics. putting words and melodies to my songs. That's a real challenge, I take it on vigorously.

— Gord Downie

The Sadies have the ability to create soundscapes, and to put you in places.

— Gord Downie

When you write and make music, there's a tendency to save stuff... to be cagey, to be savvy.

— Gord Downie

When I'm in front of a crowd, I don't think 'Oh, there's some hard-core metalheads and some alternative fringe types, so we…

— Gord Downie

It's a gas, just phoning up some bands and saying: 'You don't know us but we love you and would you come…

— Gord Downie

Music brings people together. So my function in anything I do is to help bring people closer in.

— Gord Downie

I work a couple of hours a day with a guitar or pushing words around, so over time I have a lot…

— Gord Downie

We were interested in making a long career out of this, rather than being 'Canada's Newest Hitmakers.' It seems to work, and…

— Gord Downie

Rock 'n' roll is not unlike love. You find it oddly strangely comforting that no matter how old you get, when it…

— Gord Downie

Even 'The Inevitability of Death' is kind of a funny song more than anything. I mean, I thought it would be funny…

— Gord Downie

We were big Clash fans, you know, big Who fans and I think we would listen to this music and talk about…

— Gord Downie

If we weren't in this band, some of us wouldn't be playing at all. You have tiffs with someone when he has…

— Gord Downie