Ideas Quote by Ben Gibbard

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an…

— Amy Winehouse

It's hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like building something…

— Thomas Mars

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

— Beck

A lot of the songs I write are like songs that I've never been able to find on any record, but that I've always…

— Ryan Adams

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

New life situations equal out to new kinds of songs.

— Machine Gun Kelly

I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

— Coleman Hawkins

The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.

— Miles Davis

Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional period is…

— Lester Bangs

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

— Leon Bridges

I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better production, but I like songs that sound…

— Alexa Ray Joel

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.

— Anonymous