Lyrics Quotes
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I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.
Cass McCombs
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A lot of times, I'll have a goal, I'll start writing, and I'll end up in some far off place, which is good. It's nice to have a focus, but letting the lyrics write themselves where they need to go is important.
James Hetfield
Metallica
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How much easier it would be if when you played them slowly in reverse the lyrics really did, as some hysterical parents feared, reveal satanic messages; if there were a backmasked secret order, however dark, instead of rage at emptiness.
Ben Lerner
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Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.
John Roger Stephens
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Sometimes, to be honest with you, our lyrics were written a day before the vocal had to be done.
Steve Porcaro
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I love lyrics. They help me to figure things out.
Colleen Saidman
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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
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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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It was a good chance for me to write lyrics that I was going to sing, I’ve always written lyrics for other people to sing. I thought. I’m going to write an album here, but i’m not going to write stuff that other people are gonna sing, because that would be pointless.
Nick Hodgson
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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
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One night, I remember being really sick in bed with chills and a fever when Ann came in all excited and said, 'I have these lyrics! Let me read them to you!' They were the lyrics to 'Crazy on You,' and in my fever haze I said, 'Yeah! Those are really good!'
Nancy Wilson
Heart
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I don't think writing open-ended lyrics is necessarily an important part of writing good pop songs.
Lewis Capaldi
