Quotes About Lyrics

The Stones are great and always have been. Jagger's lyrics are just amazing. Right on the ball every time.

There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.

Coming from art school, I had a great sense of style - as did The Beatles and the Stones - and I enjoyed projecting that. Image, attitude, great music and great lyrics - that was the '60s.

'Simply the Best' has always been one of my favourite songs and a song that I've always thought was far deeper than what you imagine it to be at first listen. I found the lyrics to be really, oddly beautiful, considering you rarely stop and think about them.

If you listen to me, it's real stories. It's catchy and something you can relate to.

When I started listening to rap music, I loved the fact that there were stories being told in 16 bars.

Country music has the great stories.

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

Usually, when I'm rappin', I'm creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.

It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.

I am very into lyrics. I start with what the words are saying, what the storyline is saying, like a good script. It should really capture me, do something for me. If I don't get it, it's not going to move people, and if it's not going to move people, it's not going to happen.

Rappers were my storytellers.

I still very much appreciate the storytelling of the best rappers.

I just love storytelling. I write music to tell stories. So when I'm done writing a song, I take it and go, 'Okay. How can I interpret these lyrics differently?' I love taking lyrics that were so close to me at a certain point in my life and then revamping them. I always want to take things to the next level.

'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.

While writing a normal song, we just pen four lines and then we have a chorus and some lines again. But rap is about storytelling and requires extra effort to write.

I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a story with lots of details. But when you're a songwriter, you have to fit the words to the melody and you can't fit as much in. I'm just a big fan of storytelling.

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

I always did go against the singer-songwriter form. I think I've always had a lot of storytelling songs.

The narrative shouldn't stop for the song in a musical. The music has to continue the narrative of the storytelling.

The great thing about country songs is the storytelling.

The storytelling in country music is so powerful.

Nas' storytelling was just fire.

I've never been the straight rapper that is going to stand in a cipher and battle all day. I started off battle rapping, but to me, making songs became more important than freestyles... I've met many rappers who can freestyle but can't make a record.