#old songs

You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#around #chords #convincing #energy #forget

Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material. ↗

— Merle Haggard

#attention #doin #drunk #get #just

Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs. ↗

— Frankie Avalon

#dvd #grease #hear #i #i do

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs. ↗

— Beau Bridges

#been #family #felt #friends #good

I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.' ↗

— Buck Owens

#experiment #fun #got #i #i think

I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment. ↗

— John Fogerty

#equipment #gotten #i #lot #now

Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#congregation #emotions #experience #fervor #heard

One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers. ↗

— Andrew Fletcher

#best #careers #feel #making #music

We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more. ↗

— Fred Frith

#been #business #gravity #me #more

I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go. ↗

— Charles Stuart Calverley

#deem #go #how #i #low