Lyrics Quotes
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Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world.
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I approach song writing three different ways. One way is where I write the initial melody and lyrics first and then take it in to the producer to collaborate. Another way is where the producer sends me his initial musical track ideas and then I write the lyrics and melody over his track. The third way is where we just jam out in the studio and see what we come up with.
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I've been singing about love a long time now, because my kind of love carries a different flavor. My lyrics are not so outrageous as some. You have to think about a lot of different things. You get more mature with what you do - more experience, more capable, you know, the older you get.
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I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.
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I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.
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Sometimes I do a Dylan song and it seems to fit me so right that I figure maybe I wrote it. Dylan didn’t always do it for me as a singer, not in the early days, but then I started listening to the lyrics. That sold me.
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There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics.
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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.
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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.
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I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.
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I find most modern country virtually unlistenable. I can't relate to the music or the lyrics.
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I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.
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Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
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I've read and heard that some of the most inspiring vocal interpreters adhere habitually to one rule: Always think the lyrics as you're singing them, so that the sentiment is always appropriate and heartfelt.
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I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make the songs relatable in a way; I want to keep melodies pretty simple and the lyrics open-ended so that people could maybe relate them to their own life in different ways. Something for everybody to have a piece of.
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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.
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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.
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I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
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I think the simple message of that song is what attracted me to 'Every Day.' It's one of those simple yet profound lyrics.
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I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.
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My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.
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It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.
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Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.
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I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.
