R.C. Bannon quotes

R.C. Bannon quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten”
-- R.C. Bannon

#Song Quotes #Songwriting Quotes

“What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.”

Source : Eleanor Brown (2011). “The Weird Sisters”, p.337, Penguin
“I dont really take anything from home except some U.S. magazines and books and definitely some U.S. music. There are just certain songs that remind me of home.”
“Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.”
“A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.”
“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.”
“Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.”
“It's not that I have resisted songwriting, it's just not something I felt I have had to do. I've just not woken up and thought, I must do this. But I have often heard music that I have instantly felt 'I have to sing that song'”
“Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.”
“I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.”

Source : "Singer-songwriter Amos Lee". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. February 1, 2011.
“Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.”

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