Lyrics Quotes

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

  

  Will Champion Coldplay
  • Lyrics
  • Melancholy

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

  

  Sia LSD
  • Mind
  • Lyrics

• I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • Poetry
  • Everyday
  • Songs

• 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 find lyrics can come at any time during the day, as can music.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Time
  • Music
  • Lyrics

• I don't have any favourite lyrics. Honestly, all of them I love 'em to death - it's the same with songs. I don't have just one favourite lyric, I love them all.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Death
  • I Love
  • Lyric

• I've tried every which way for writing lyrics - everything from using really bizarre imagery and metaphors, sort of obscuring the facts of what I'm singing about, all the way over to a song like 'Losing My Mind,' where you're just reading my thoughts as they're occurring.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Song

• Having a very serious thematic element in the lyrics and then juxtaposing with something really triumphant and just a big beat to dance to is a nice contrast to having a dark message.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Nice
  • Dark
  • Serious

• Legions of young hip-hop fans are as against this as hip-hop's most fierce critics. There is a huge underground movement within hip-hop circles that against these representation. You can hear this message on tons of lyrics and rap songs produced by independent emcees. But they are fighting against a well-oiled and well-financed machine.

  

  Bakari Kitwana
  • Song
  • Fighting
  • Independent

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The Smiths hasn't been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Lyrics

• I listen to your demo tape and act like I don't like it, six months later you hear your lyrics on my shit.

  

  Eminem
  • Lyrics

• The writing process remained the same pretty much that we have always done. It’s very collaborative and everyone brings their bag of ideas into the room – we all play guitar, we all write lyrics.

  

  Neil Sanderson Three Days Grace
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Collaborative

• The crafting of lyrics is really a task, and when it comes to street culture, I don't feel like anyone else articulates it better than me.

  

  Terrence LeVarr Thornton
  • Culture
  • Lyrics

• 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

• No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.

  

  Eric Reed Boucher
  • Music
  • Style
  • Lyrics

• When I first started writing lyrics and stuff, I was writing it to garage, and obviously garage kind of progressed to grime.

  

  Louise Harman
  • Writing
  • Lyrics

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

  

  Sia LSD
  • Song
  • Lyrics

• To go on the road and see people sing my own lyrics back to me is just fantastic.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • People
  • Road
  • Lyrics

• When a song came on the radio that I wanted to learn, my mother would quickly write down the lyrics for me. Soon after, I would be singing it.

  

  Kiran Ahluwalia
  • Mother
  • Song
  • Singing

• Lyrical content is very important to me. I'm always trying to make sure the lyrics and music complement each other perfectly.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Lyrics
  • Content
  • Music Complement

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