Lyrics Quotes

• I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Real
  • Age
  • Want

• Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.

  

  Jeff Tweedy
  • Shadow
  • Lyrics

• For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Lost
  • English
  • Process

• I've tried to work really hard on never phoning in the lyrics.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Work
  • Never
  • Tried

• Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

  

  Bernie Taupin
  • Real
  • Poetry
  • Lyrics

• Cacie Dalager's voice is beautiful, and her lyrics break my heart.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Heart
  • Beautiful
  • Lyrics

• In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Lyrics
  • Fan
  • Pink Floyd

• I had only heard about Fall Out Boy a couple months before we contacted him. I heard 'Saturday' and 'Grand Theft Autumn' and thought the lyrics were smart and the singer was insanely talented.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Fall
  • Couple
  • Boy

• Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Inspire

• about Nothing Else Matters James always wanted to be perceived as this guy who is very confident and strong. And for him to write lyrics like that - showing a sensitive side - took a lot of balls.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
  • Guy
  • Strong
  • Lyrics

• I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Strange
  • Boss

• I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Music
  • High
  • Always

• My dad's Nigerian, and I remember going to Nigeria, and all of these kids and adults and everyone in-between knew who TuPac was. They had TuPac t-shirts, TuPac posters, TuPac cassettes... everyone knew TuPac, and sometimes that was the only English that they spoke, was TuPac lyrics.

  

  Annie Ilonzeh
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Dad

• A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Done
  • Song
  • English

• We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody.

  

  Bill Haley Bill Haley & His Comets
  • Lyrics

• A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to the lyrics.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Song
  • Lyrics
  • Yesterday

• I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • Lyrics

• I don't even know if I always entirely get what I'm trying to say right away with lyrics. I like a lot of things that are more subtext. I grew up mishearing lyrics my whole life, but somehow there's so much more, too, that's implied in vocal delivery and the music itself and the gestural quality of it.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Friends
  • Hate
  • Best

• For a movie, you have to make sure the lyrics are consistent with the rhythm that is given to you. But, at times, during the song's recording, you find out that your words are not appropriate for the track, and so you have to change them.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Movie
  • Song
  • Words

• I love the Ronettes, the 'do-run-run-run' pop stuff. I love the lyrics, having 'blue, blue blue' being repetitive.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Being
  • Stuff
  • Repetitive

• I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

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