Lyrics Quotes

• I loved to talk about music to Nicky ... His influence came from people like The Beatles and The Beach Boys, and he had these ideas about layering vocals, painting landscapes with music. Roma knew about Irish mythology, told stories, wrote poetry and had this special feeling for lyrics. My grounding came from the classics.

  

  Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
  • People
  • Music
  • Feeling

• I've definitely got a lot more cautious about my lyrics - I feel I want to be a positive force in the world, and I want to uplift people. That's something that comes with age.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • World
  • Force
  • Cautious

• I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.

  

  Yannis Philippakis
  • Band
  • Self
  • Down And

• A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics.

  

  Will Champion Coldplay
  • Lyrics
  • Melancholy

• I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Lyrics
  • I Think
  • Melodies

• Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.

  

  Yannis Philippakis
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Want

• 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

• I think music is an intuitive force. It's this beautiful wave that connects all of us and inspires us, and I think music has the ability - when you listen to a song, you're not immediately thinking about the lyrics or what's going on in the mind of the writer, you're feeling the song.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Music
  • Song
  • Ability

• 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

• Lyrics are always the last thing to get done.

  

  Jeff Hanneman Slayer
  • Done
  • Lyrics
  • Last Thing

• I grew up Catholic, so I have these defenses about listening to anything with too much religiosity; some of the lyrics didn't sit well in my mouth. One of my beefs is the patriarchal setup. Having the 'he, he, he, God, God, God, king, king, king' stuff was hard for me.

  

  Patty Griffin
  • Up
  • God
  • Listening

• I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.

  

  Avicii
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Words

• 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

• With his compulsively slamming lyrics and king-of-the-world delivery, DMX intuitively echoes the existentialism of the projects of the novelist Donald Goines.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • World
  • King
  • Existentialism

• It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Song
  • Lyrics

• I loved writing lyrics for rap when I was in junior high. I loved studying, but somehow I wanted to be a rapper who can write and rap.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Writing
  • Rap
  • 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

• As you can imagine, over the years I have been asked many times to discuss and explain my song "American Pie." I have never discussed the lyrics, but have admitted to the Holly reference in the opening stanzas. You will find many interpretations of my lyrics but none of them by me. You will find many “interpretations” of my lyrics but none of them by me. Isn’t this fun? Sorry to leave you all on your own like this but long ago I realized that songwriters should make their statements and move on, maintaining a dignified silence.

  

  Don McLean
  • Long
  • American
  • Fun

• The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Writing
  • Pretty
  • Hate

• I have never been able to separate - nor have I wanted to - my personal love and desire for truth, passion, and understanding from my lyrics.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Truth
  • Desire
  • Passion

• I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

  

  Bryan White
  • Up
  • Music
  • Country

• And just as you can find hip-hop lyrics beating up on all these groups, including young Black men themselves, the primary producers of the music, you can also find lyrics celebrating them.

  

  Bakari Kitwana
  • Up
  • Music
  • Men

• If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Voice
  • Forget
  • Kinda

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

  

  Lee DeWyze
  • People
  • Music
  • Lyrics

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