Quotes About Lyrics

The wind blew the dust along the ground into his mouth as he sang.

MONDEGREEN. A term for misheard song lyrics, coined by American freelance writer Sylvia Wright (1920–1961) in 1954. It derived from her long-held belief that a song contained the line, "They had slain the Earl of Moray and Lady Mondegreen." In fact, the line ended with the words, "and laid him on the green.

Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

You beefed cause you heard that I was cursing in my raps, 86, still you wanna run and get the straps.

My guitar player calls the process of writing lyrics based on another story, "filling up the well" when you can get inspiration from other people's art without stealing, more being influenced by it.

Bring me a girl, they're always the best. You put 'em on stage, and you have 'em undress.

you write your best lyrics when you most vulnerable

Rap in its form is poetry, meaning the point of convergence is words.

I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you might not write savage lyrics.

Lyrics are back, maybe. It seems like there was a bit of an attitude that lyrics are not important.

Demelza cominciò a cantare giocosa e con voce profonda: «C'era una vecchia coppia, senza un soldo in tasca, Tweedle, tweedle, go twee.»

lo único que me inspiran sus canciones melosas son unas ganas locas de mearles la guitarra.

Her body stay on top of my Summers like Suzanne.

We the motha fas like M.I.L.F., my nga.

She blowing me like a van horn.

Pump to your chest, I aint talking CPR.

I still eat rappers. Mmm. Scrumptious.

I pop like lollis, you drop like eyelids.

Like memories in cold decay, Transmissions echoing away, Far from the world of you and I Where oceans bleed into the sky..

In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

It varies from song to song, but melody was always easy for me.

I listen to a variety of music. The only common point is strong lyrics; I'm more obsessed with lyrics than music. I need to hear a form of truth, and if it's a hard truth, even better.