Lyrics Quotes
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Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.
Nate Ruess
Fun.
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It took me a long time to stumble upon a sound, and I figured out I wanted to kinda sing rapper's lyrics.
Mike Posner
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You have the ability to write melodies and to put lyrics that mean something: to speak about life and what people are going through in their every day ups and downs, the good times and the bad times. Country music has always talked about life, I think; that's what I've always loved about it.
Jimi Westbrook
Little Big Town
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I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story.
Vanilla Ice
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I do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal.
Lindsey Buckingham
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I know my lyrics might be weird to some, but they're not like that to me because I know where they come from - I know the secret.
Alex Turner
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We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.
Art Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel
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Too many times you come across lyrics that sound like you've heard them before or you can't really relate to them. And I think that I write songs that sound fresh and sensual in kind of a layered, lush way. But I also think that they are real, and that's why I wanted to call the record 'Inside Out.'
Emmy Rossum
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We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.
Dave Haywood
Lady Antebellum
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Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.
Beth Gibbons
Portishead
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I think people just want to be popular. So they're going to write lyrics that are going to get your attention. You know, sometimes, they're a little graphic, and I don't think that's so necessary.
Natalie Cole
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Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.
Babyface
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As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.
K. D. Lang
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Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
Gary Wright
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Maybe Kurt Cobain meant it to mention suicide in his lyrics; maybe he didn't. We're never going to know. When Andy Wood died, there were tons of lyrics that he wrote that sort of alluded to, well, it's possible that it's going to happen. It's not likely I'm going to kill myself, but those lyrics are still there.
Chris Cornell
Soundgarden
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I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.
Jamila Woods
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
Barbara Walters
