Stella Mozgawa quotes

I've tended to write lyrics alone. The emotion of the melody comes first. But what stimulates us are usually these dreamy minor chords. We all feel we're an emotional band as far as writing, but the specific emotions tend to be of a melancholic, or of an almost sinister-yet-beautiful nature. I never think of our songs as being about boy-girl relationships or ultra-female. The music comes from a universal place.
-- Stella Mozgawa

#Song #Writing #Emotional

If anything I think we connect to what our parents were listening to when they were our age. I'm listening to a lot of classical and electronic music, like Aphex Twin, non-vocal music.
-- Stella Mozgawa

#Thinking #Parent #Listening

As a band, we're all trying to be naked, if you will. As naked as we can be.
-- Stella Mozgawa

#Trying

I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

I can write better than anyone who can write faster,

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

[Propaganda] must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect... The art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attention and thence to the heart of the broad masses.