Quotes About Lyrics

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.

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

I can't think of very many people who work as hard at the craft of songcraft as Gord Downie does. It was life or death. Every syllable was important.

I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way - bummed out and under pressure. I often don't do my homework. But I'll always walk that extra mile.

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

When we were trying to come up with a concept for our music video for 'The Stage' we basically run through a lot of different ideas, and ultimately, I sat and studied the lyrics that Matt had written - and they really resonated with me.

Songs are often character studies.

There was a recording studio in my school, and I knew this kid who had a key, so I'd write lyrics in school while I was in class, and then, in a 10-minute break, I recorded the song 'Hurt' in one go at the school studio.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics and sing it for you after a couple of plays.

I've been studying people - a homeless guy in Scotland, a blind accordion player in London - and they've inspired the lyrics I've been writing.

I've really been studying lyrics, printing out lyrics to songs I love and reading them like a letter.

Kenny Chesney's music cuts. He gets into those massive ballads like 'There Goes My Life' and 'The Good Stuff' and things like that that just crush you, and delivers them so well. Some of that you can't really put your finger on; it's just magic.

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.

That's what we grew up with - the good songs, the good lyrics, the good big-band stuff. I miss that era.

Some of the stuff that I say on 'License to Ill,' I say some real dumb stuff.

It took me a long time to stumble upon a sound, and I figured out I wanted to kinda sing rapper's lyrics.

I like The Erised for the harmony of their addictive beats mix, and I like Allie X for her distinct style and incredible lyrics - they are pure art.

My style is simple. It is out and out melody.

I wanted to write a song about war and that classic 'We want you' recruitment style from the point of view of the recruiter.

Elton John himself never seems pretentious but Bernie Taupin's lyrics often do - sometimes pretentious in a clever sort of way, but pretentious nonetheless. There is a conflict between Elton's and Bernie's personal styles, no doubt about it.

Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

And I'm the biggest country fan there is, but I'm always a little cautious of a slower song or just a song with subject matter.

'Sit Here and Cry' was one of the first songs I wrote with that overdramatic sarcastic dry sense of humor, which is why the energy of the song doesn't necessarily reflect the subject matter.