Lyrics Quotes
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Springsteen's 'Thunder Road' and Carole King's 'It's Too Late' are examples of why I am a singer/songwriter. I practice these songs every day. The melodies are timeless in the rock world, the lyrics are words that I need to say, and they need to be heard again.
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And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.
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I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story.
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The first time I heard 'White Man in Hammersmith Palais,' I loved the vulnerability in the music and the lyrics.
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Catchy lyrics are being given more importance.
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That's what we grew up with - the good songs, the good lyrics, the good big-band stuff. I miss that era.
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.
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There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.
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I like bringing my poet brain and sensibility to lyrics I write.
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Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.
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I don't have a favourite romantic scene, but I enjoy romantic movies like 'Ghost' and 'Music and Lyrics.'
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My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.
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I want to suggest a feeling. It's ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics.
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Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.
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Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean.
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I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too.
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I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.
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I do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal.
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The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
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My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.
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Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
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Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
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I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.
