Steve Porcaro (Steven Maxwell Porcaro) Quotes
Sometimes, to be honest with you, our lyrics were written a day before the vocal had to be done.Steve Porcaro
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
Victoria Justice -
People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
For a movie, you have to make sure the lyrics are consistent with the rhythm that is given to you. But, at times, during the song's recording, you find out that your words are not appropriate for the track, and so you have to change them.
Kapil Sibal -
'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.
Sir Isaac Brock KB -
My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
Bebe Rexha -
My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
Randy Newman
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
J. Cole -
Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.
Harold Prince -
I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
Natalie Merchant -
I do pinch myself, like when shows in non-English speaking countries are sold out, and people are singing my lyrics. I don't think I'll ever lose that; I'm always appreciative every day of the support I have as an artist, because I'm not a commercial artist.
Xavier Rudd -
I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.
Ian MacKaye -
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
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Lyrics are really important for me.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
Oscar Wilde -
I've found lyrics in songs that always center me.
Ed Kowalczyk -
I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'
Maya Angelou -
I consider myself a lyrics guy.
Mike Posner
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Crying is really bad for your vocal cords.
Adele -
I've been a 'Doctor Who' fan since I was a wee girl.
Neve McIntosh -
Most people write off their longing for friends and family as so many losses in their lives, when they should count the fact that their heart is able to long so hard and to love so much as among their greatest blessings.
Etty Hillesum -
Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life.
Chris Hemsworth -
It seemed so obvious that abusing the power of the page, and that was a phrase that was bandied about, 'the power of the page', that any abuse would be career suicide.
Bob Merrill -
Sometimes, to be honest with you, our lyrics were written a day before the vocal had to be done.
Steve Porcaro