Lyrics Quotes

• I wanted to be a poet. I fell in love with poetry around eight years old, but not through literature. Instead, it came through hip-hop lyrics and my obsession with reading liner notes. Queen Latifah's 'Black Reign' is the album that stands out the most.

  

  Jason Reynolds
  • Black
  • Reading
  • Poetry

• 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

• When you go through tragedy, you can either let that destroy you and you become bitter and never let it go, or you can let it make you stronger and let it make you grow. And that's what I did. My lyrics are coming from a place that I want people to relate to and feel that they're not alone.

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • People
  • Tragedy
  • Destroy

• I also began hearing the lyrics. A friend suggested I talk to a producer.

  

  Ben Savage
  • Friend
  • Lyrics
  • Producer

• 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

• 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

• 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

• On my songs, they always start on the Voyager and I start with a simple loop and build it up from there. I usually give the whole thing to Erin finished, often with lyrics and she makes the vocal melody work with the song.

  

  Roger O'Donnell The Cure
  • Songs
  • Lyrics
  • Melody

• 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

• If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Life
  • Good
  • Lyrics

• 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
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Lyrics

• 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
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Words

• I love having those lyrics that at first make you think it's about one thing, but it's really about something so much more.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • Lyrics

• I would write down the lyrics to 'C.R.E.A.M.' in Korean - not translating it, but phonetically writing out each word. I didn't know what they were saying, so I would just write everything down as I heard it. I would recite it and imitate it like that. That's how I started to write my own raps.

  

  G-Dragon
  • Writing
  • Lyrics

• I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Lyrics

• Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
  • Soul
  • Song
  • Lyrics

• If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive.

  

  Tyler, The Creator
  • People
  • Lyrics

• I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

  

  Emmylou Harris
  • Music
  • House
  • Lyrics

• I love Pink and Nelly Furtado - the honesty and truth in their lyrics. I also love Kendrick Lamar and Chance the Rapper.

  

  Dua Lipa
  • Truth
  • Honesty
  • Pink

• 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
  • Lyrics
  • Production
  • Harmonies

• I've never written lyrics. I get up in front of a microphone, and I just sing what comes to the top of my head.

  

  Arthur Ashin
  • Up
  • Lyrics

• 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 remember the first show I had there were about 3 people, at least there was somebody. The next one was about 30. Then a couple years later there were 300 people and before I knew it there were 3,000... Then one day, I opened my eyes and there were 300,000 singing all my lyrics.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Remember
  • Eyes

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