Quotes About Lyrics

You've got to be a really straight man to write a song like 'It's Raining Men.'

There is an actor's responsibility in presenting the emotional content of the lyrics to an audience. But whether you do that in a straightforward fashion or an ironic fashion or a blase fashion is all about opportunities, and singers are missing opportunities as artists if they don't pay attention to the lyric.

I never really had any trouble selling my music to country audiences. They appreciate honest lyrics and straightforward melodies, and that's what I do.

Even the new president, Jimmy Carter, invoked Bob Dylan lyrics during his inauguration speech in early 1977.

leyendo liras deliras

Wehehehehell, if it isn't Ollie-Ollie-oxidant-free..." You can take…all the tea in China…put it in a big brown…bag for me. He's as sweet as tupelo honey; he's an angel of the first degree. Men with insight…men in granite…knights in armor bent on…chivalry. He's as sweet as…tupelo honey; just like honey, baby…from the bee." => For those who read and liked "When Irish eyes are sparkling" Can i have a musician here?

Coffee is pretty big in my life. It shows up in my lyrics a bunch, the same way the ocean does. It's a constant force.

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

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.

I've seen people who like a certain song write on their Instagram what they think the lyrics are - which they aren't. I'm like, 'Oh, that's interesting - you can create your own adventure with some of these songs.' Which is really cool.

Oh my God, when I auditioned for 'Hamilton,' I kept messing up the words to 'Say No To This.'

The song 'Assassins Of Youth'... 'Assassins of youths' is what they used to call drugs in the old days when they first started the anti-drug campaign. And it's kind of an anti-drug record.

I still like the stuff from the old days: Marvin Gaye, Donnie Hathaway.

I deliberate over the lyrics; I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me.

James Brown really taught me a lot - his lyrics and his performance and whatever he does when he's onstage. I'll always call him a legend, and I'll always respect what he did.

The most amazing thing is being onstage and watching the audience sing every song lyric for lyric.

Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song.

What's an opening night without forgetting some lyrics?

One of the problems with musicals and opera is you can't ever hear all the words.

In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of.

sounding now/old songs/deep water/no-Great Voices/no-Shark/old songs/new songs

All my early lyrics were about confidence.

Love is a song that never ends.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.