Lyrics Quotes

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!

Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.

In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say.

That's something - you laugh about Eminem... It's funny, man, because I didn't like him when he first came out, ya know. It seemed like a big joke. But I think the guy's for real, and I like his lyrics!

I privilege the music over the lyrics.

I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.

We started very slow in America. It was small acoustic shows. We played places like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago and everywhere there has been a great reaction. It has been really lovely. They listen to the lyrics and the melody over there and the reaction has been fantastic.

It's such a rush doing a concert and seeing people actually mouthing the lyrics.

I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes.

Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

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.

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

I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to perform. I've just initiated the project. That leads the project into creating an independent label outside of game music.

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

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to.

For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.

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

But I don't like working on lyrics publicly in the studio - I prefer to take them away and work on them in my bedroom.

I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is targeted at them.

After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are.

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.

I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.