Lyrics Quotes

• All my favorite artists were pretty serious in the sense that their music was something I could sink my teeth into, from Peter Gabriel to U2 to these artists that made me want to read the lyrics and dig into it.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Serious

• I listen to everything and find parts about a song in the lyrics/melody/chords/production that I like and can be inspired by when I write my next song.

  

  Astrid S
  • Song
  • Inspired
  • Lyrics

• Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.

  

  Anne Stevenson
  • American
  • Lyrics

• I'm very passionate about music and was excited to see that the majority of readers loved the inclusion of lyrics.

  

  Colleen Hoover
  • Music
  • Lyrics

• I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

  

  Lee DeWyze
  • People
  • Music
  • Lyrics

• I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you might not write savage lyrics.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Attitude

• I've always loved to sing with somewhat vague lyrics so people can have their own interpretation and find their own meaning with it. I've become a bit more comfortable speaking about personal matters within the lyrics, but at the same time, there is an element where I'm not always sure how far I want to take it. There are certain topics that I'm discussing that I haven't explicitly explained to my bandmates. That's just for me to know, and I'm not going to talk about it anywhere.

  

  Ed Droste
  • Interpretation
  • Discussing
  • Bandmates

• I'm really big into lyrics in my own songs, so I look up to Drake in that aspect.

  

  Jake Paul
  • Up
  • Lyrics

• It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Thinking
  • Period
  • Used

• Barney told me he’d written ‘Liar’ about our manager. I was really shocked when I saw the lyrics. Poor Rob.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Lyrics
  • Liar
  • Manager

• A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.

  

  Matt Berninger The National
  • Why
  • Lyrics

• "The River" [song] is also, yes, very metaphorical. Rivers are cleansing. As long as human beings have been on the Earth we've used rivers to cleanse ourselves. And, for me, the lyrics "something in the river," I think is - well, the river is a metaphor for where I was at the time.

  

  Ladyhawke
  • Time
  • Long
  • Song

• I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect.

  

  Nellie McKay
  • Good
  • Music
  • Writing

• We singers have a different level of responsibility from other musicians. We have words that we must convey; we have meanings that we must convey through these lyrics.

  

  Jessye Norman
  • Different
  • Words
  • Responsibility

• I write in the weirdest places. I wrote 'Girl on the Coast' in my car with the kids in the back and Eric driving. I just wrote the whole thing on my phone. I just typed out the lyrics.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Kids
  • Girl
  • Car

• 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for a pop song, pretty deep and dark.

  

  Jake Epstein
  • Pretty
  • Song
  • Words

• The lyrics just come out, and I don't know where from. I'm an incredible failure in relationships. I think there's a romantic ideal that I'm aspiring for. I don't know. The lyrics are always about unsuccessful relationships. They're not all about the love between a man and a woman. It's about friendship and family. Deep down there's a lot of talk about general existence.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Family

• Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing.

  

  Alison Krauss
  • Truth
  • Beautiful
  • Lyrics

• I missed being onstage behind the microphone. After a while, it was hard to hear another voice singing my lyrics.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Singing
  • Lyrics

• I know the songs that Sly wrote still have the meaning for those that are living today that weren't even around when we started playing before, in the beginning. His lyrics, to me, if you listen to them, they can form a lifestyle that will leave you a happier person, a better person on this planet. It's just lyrics to live by.

  

  Cynthia Robinson
  • Live
  • Today
  • Beginning

• I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Mind
  • Lyrics

• I first came across Langhorne Slim when I saw him play live, and he's an incredibly infectious performer. The way he works the crowd is mind-blowing. You can listen to his music without really listening to his lyrics, but it pays off if you do.

  

  Johnny Flynn
  • Music
  • Live
  • Mind

• I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• Our success just flies in the face of critics or people who would rather that we just failed... because we didn't fit into the style of the times or our lyrics were too upfront or too earnest or whatever.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • People
  • Success
  • Style

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