Lyrics Quotes
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Every song has a different genesis, or feeling. Usually the lyrics, I don't really know what it's all about, I just kinda do it. I mean, there's a combination of, like you're saying, that kind of lyrics about commitment or vaguely relationship lyrics mixed with jokey 90s Beck-style non-sequiturs and stuff.
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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.
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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.
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Usually the lyrics go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.
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Sometimes, to be honest with you, our lyrics were written a day before the vocal had to be done.
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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.
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You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.
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I'd never even sung in the shower, I'm too mortified. But once I got over the initial fear it was kind of enjoyable. Sondheim's melodies and lyrics are a real pleasure to tromp around in, it's really beautiful stuff.
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My forte is playing along and singing along to music I love. I mean, who knows, maybe I could develop that knack or develop that ability to write, and I do actually co-write with people and friends, which is fun, too, because then I don't have to worry about writing lyrics, because for me writing lyrics is impossible.
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It's hard to talk about childhood trauma. It's hard to talk about depression. It's hard to talk about anxiety. And we thought - I wonder if we just open up our subconscious and the things that we think about and hide from people every day and just let them come out in some of these lyrics.
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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.
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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.
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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!'
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I love lyrics. They help me to figure things out.
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The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.
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The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and that's how I hear it.
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I don't think writing open-ended lyrics is necessarily an important part of writing good pop songs.
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Lyrics always fall short with the amount of energy thrown into the playing. Lyrics to some extent are just the product of a singer's insecurity with singing.
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With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.
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The lyrics were my sarcastic way of realizing you can't be the king of the hill all the time.
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I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.
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The lyrics stand today 1980. They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what you're going to do after you've knocked it all down. I mean, can't we use some of it? What's the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people.
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All of our lyrics are really personal, and we get a lot of personal letters.
