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Song Quotes by Luke Hemmings

31 Song quotes by Luke Hemmings

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When Luke Hemmings puts pen to paper, the words pulse with the same energy that drives his melodies. This set gathers his most resonant thoughts on song, offering a glimpse into why the craft matters to him and to anyone who’s ever felt a chord strike a nerve.

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My dad loves Pearl Jam so I had to like them as well.

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Those American '90s bands shaped us.

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The Swedish style of songwriting is so mathematical.

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Lie to Me' is a great song.

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The thing is, all the lyrics come from us.

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We're never going to write an 'American Idiot' song.

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We want to be an important band to people for the right reasons. It's always been a goal.

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What makes us so different from anything else is we're a rock band with a boy band fanbase.

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I reckon people's attitude to us is a challenge that motivates you to show them what this band can do.

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For a band to make it to four albums is no small feat in itself.

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You know what, if you play 'She Looks So Perfect' backwards... you just listen to it.

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Good Charlotte is the reason I started playing guitar.

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There are a lot of people in the industry and stuff who said no we don't want to sign a guitar band,…

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I had the Foo Fighters' 'Live at Hyde Park' DVD, and my dad had the AC/DC box set, and I used to…

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Like Good Charlotte, Green Day had a huge influence on me. Just the way they play live and the energy they bring…

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If there's a problem we can talk to anyone in the band. There's other people around us. Everyone in the band are…

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As a band, when we started, that was all we were good at. It wasn't 'we've got to be a guitar band';…

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When you start a band like we did - we started with pretty pop-punk roots - the whole plan is to get…

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I think for a band like us, we're all really close friends. We grew up and went to school together. We're not…

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The band, and myself, really pride ourselves on being passionate and writing our songs and showing the world we're in music for…

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When we first started as a band we knew we could all sing and we took harmonies from Mayday Parade which doesn't…

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I grew up with a lot of Australian rock music. My dad loves AC/DC and INXS was a big one. My mom…

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I love being in the band and I love being the fourth member of 5SOS, but someone I've seen do something separate…

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The first album was written over the course of a couple of year while we were supporting One Direction on tour. It…

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Sometimes you're writing a song and you have an image whilst writing a song. I don't think you ever base a songwriting…

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A lot of bands have to change what they sound like, but we are exactly the band that we want to be:…

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Bands really are big for a lot of the same reasons, like in the Seventies and Eighties up into the 2000s where…

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The only way to be original in your songwriting is to write about your own experiences, and I think that's what we…

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Teeth' came about after a month or two long blur of writing and pushing ourselves to go a step further than 'Youngblood.'…

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The New Broken Scene' isn't this big sad thing where everyone is sad. It is a positive thing to me, that's why…

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I had the Slash 'How to Play Guitar' DVD. I just wanted to be the best guitarist, like, ever. My brother played…

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I think as a teen who was thrust into the public eye pretty quickly, I got overwhelmed easily and felt constant pressure to be…

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You know what, if you play 'She Looks So Perfect' backwards... you just listen to it.

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I think at the start of writing it was less intense topics, and then once I broke the seal I was more comfortable writing…

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The Swedish style of songwriting is so mathematical.

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The first gig we ever played was at a pub in Sydney called the Annandale Hotel to approximately 12 people.

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I'd want to play the Sydney Opera House.

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I just see us as songwriters.

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We have this determination to keep going and keep pushing ourselves creatively.

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We're not trying to be anything that we're not.

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AC/DC being such a huge Aussie band is definitely something I carry with me, and it still means a lot with us being from…

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Michael Hutchence is an incredible frontman and a huge influence on me. I really love 'Mystify' and 'New Sensation.'

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I love being in the band, I love being that person and it's such a beautiful and ridiculous adventure but that has an effect…

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Usually if I'm going on a date, I know that the person is good.

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I dress in clothing that makes me happy, I make the music I want, I wear glitter and make-up, I express myself better, I…

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The first album was written over the course of a couple of year while we were supporting One Direction on tour. It was us…

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