Lyrics Quotes
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I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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I didn't even write the lyrics down. I got in the booth, I put down a little guitar riff and the idea I had was it was going to be really simple, I just want it to be all about the lyrics and I just literally sang the lyrics.
Benji Madden
Good Charlotte
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I write everything. It's my favorite part of what I do. And lyrics are my favorite thing.
Kelsea Ballerini
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It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs. Take 'Rearviewmirror', we start off with the music and it kinds of propels the lyrics. It made me feel like I was in a car, leaving something, a bad situation. There's an emotion there. I remembered all the times I wanted to leave.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to.
Lindsay Lohan
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I've always had an ear for melodies, and they veer pop. My lyrics are more country - what I love is the storytelling and the structure, how tight the rhymes can be. But pop melodies have always been intrinsically linked to my writing style.
Maren Morris
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After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language.
Josh Homme
Queens of the Stone Age
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I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7. And for some reason I can't add lyrics to it.
Miley Cyrus
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After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are.
Frank Rich
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I don't think lyrics need to be deep - just write whatever comes out of you. You don't need to find intense meaning in everything.
Bethany Cosentino
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All my lyrics are about my love life or the lack thereof.
Joshua Ostrander
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The lyrics are a lot about those big questions: why are we here, how did we get here, what's the point, and what's next. When those questions come up with fans, I would absolutely share with them what has helped me and where I stand on what it is that I believe.
Tyler Joseph
Twenty One Pilots
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So much of rock lyrics is just a mirror of real feeling. It doesn't feel dangerous to me. They just feel like "rock lyrics."
Stephen Malkmus
Pavement
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I saw "Follies" again at thirty, and you know, I had this great appreciation for Stephen Sondheim's brilliance, his lyrics.
Charles Busch
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Just because I said lyrics are a sign of the inability to sing doesn't mean....A I believe that, or B I don't think they're cool. They are cool. Words are great. I sing along with my favorite songs, but when I am drumming and singing, the words become a note that for me. In the process of playing they have more emotional impact as notes then an actual word.
Brian Chippendale
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But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.
Jim Capaldi
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You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.
Petra Haden
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While the business of "collecting" lyrics and melodies happens all the time, when it's time to corral them all into something, I have to be in a good mood, ready and willing to work.
James Jackson Toth
