Lyrics Quotes
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People misinterpret my lyrics sometimes too, but I mean, it is what it is.
Roddy Ricch
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If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?
Douglas Coupland
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When I write, it is always the melody that comes first, and it just happens to be the case that the most beautiful tunes are sad, and the lyrics follow the mood of the melody.
Francoise Hardy
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See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.
Mel Torme
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It's been really cool to me to watch someone like Sam Hunt, whose lyrics and roots are in country but you can hear that he listens to Drake and Justin Timberlake - and that's OK. It allows songwriters to be more honest because it's like, 'This is who I'm listening to.'
Kelsea Ballerini
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
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I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.
Yannis Philippakis
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I always had a passion for writing, but I always visualized other artist singing my lyrics, I never visualized myself.
Anthony Santos
Aventura
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Sometimes my lyrics may describe a situation that happened to a friend. Other times, I create a story from the ground up.
Bridgit Mendler
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I started writing songs before I could talk - at three or four. It was in me, and I had to get it out. It was all freestyle, which is how I write anyway. I don't write the words down; I scat and come up with the melody, then the lyrics.
Bibi Bourelly
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In 'Kid A' and 'Amnesiac,' Mr. Yorke's lyrics were often unfathomable, moaned and mumbled and forced beneath the surface of the music. In 'Hail to the Thief,' most but not all of the words can be decoded after a few listens.
David Means
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'Dirt On My Boots' is a very different song. I heard the melody, and I heard the lyrics, and I heard the drive of that song. I totally related. It was kinda me when I was on my bulldozer working for my dad.
Jon Pardi
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I grew up in the '90s and remember the lyrics back then were so abstract and open to interpretation. That always drove me crazy.
Jens Lekman
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On 'Check Your Head' and 'Ill Communication,' most of the lyrics are much more, 'OK, you take that, and I'll say that' - they're split up.
Mike D
The Beastie Boys
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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
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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
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I wanted people to connect with the lyrics, even if it's in some weird way, because they're all personal.
George Clarke
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
Jerry Garcia
Grateful Dead
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I really enjoy writing lyrics, I enjoy harmonies and I enjoy hearing the organic side of production because I have to do so much non- organic for a living for other artists, it's just a break for me, for my ears and it confuses people that think my music is supposed to sound like the stuff I do for my day job, but that's just people that don't know me.
Butch Walker
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Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.
Cass McCombs
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I'm really big into lyrics in my own songs, so I look up to Drake in that aspect.
Jake Paul
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My production got better, songs, lyrics, everything; the sound, the quality, everything.
Ty Dolla Sign
