Lyrics Quotes

• I don't really have a favorite genre. I could listen to a rock song, a metal song, jazz, pop music, whatever. For me, whatever style it is, it always depends on the chord progression, the lyrics, and the melody used.

  

  Lodewijk Fluttert
  • Music
  • Song
  • Style

• The lyrics to the single 'Survivor' are Destiny's Child's story, because we've been through a lot, ... We went through our drama with the members ... Any complications we've had in our 10-year period of time have made us closer and tighter and better.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Time
  • Children
  • Single

• I've found lyrics in songs that always center me.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Lyrics

• You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.

  

  Jeff Tweedy
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Energy

• The first time I heard 'White Man in Hammersmith Palais,' I loved the vulnerability in the music and the lyrics.

  

  Brian Fallon
  • Time
  • Music
  • Vulnerability

• 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
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Trying
  • Words
  • Simple

• 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
  • Love
  • Age
  • Death

• 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.

  

  Cheryl James
  • Children
  • Career
  • Singing

• What I look for in a voice is for it to be unique. I don't really care if a singer sings well. Really, it's about emotion, or being able to sing the lyrics and actually mean it. A lot of singers sing good notes but forget about what words they use.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Good
  • Words
  • Unique

• If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Life
  • Empty
  • Rage

• 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
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

  

  Knut Hamsun
  • Poetry
  • Lyrics

• Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Music
  • Power
  • Song

• I think honest lyrics help somebody say, 'I was struggling with this, but if Jon goes through that, too, and if Jon's telling me that his life isn't as good as it seems on his Instagram,' that helps somebody in their day to day.

  

  Jon Bellion
  • Life
  • Good
  • Help

• I don't have a favourite romantic scene, but I enjoy romantic movies like 'Ghost' and 'Music and Lyrics.'

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Music
  • Movies
  • Romantic

• I remember when I was very young, I read an article by Fats Domino which has really influenced me. He said, 'You should never sing the lyrics out very clearly.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Remember
  • I Remember
  • Article

• I think the simple message of that song is what attracted me to 'Every Day.' It's one of those simple yet profound lyrics.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Song
  • Lyrics
  • Message

• 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.

  

  Burning Spear
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Problem
  • Stand
  • Behind

• Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song, and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Nature

• I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

  

  Lindsay Lohan
  • Lyrics

• The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work. I'll sit back and listen to it, and I'll just concentrate on what kind of feeling it gives me. My goal writing the lyrics is to not disrupt that feeling.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • Great
  • Music
  • Why

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