Quotes About Lyrics

The music is the same if you go all the way back to the first albums I made or the middle or whatever. The thing that's different is the lyrics.

If I don't write a song, I only record it when it's played for me for the first time and I connect to it, am empowered by it, and have a deep connection to the lyrics.

Probably as young as 10 I would take songs and just change the lyrics.

So what comes naturally to me is writing lyrics and writing songs and telling stories.

I don't understand why people are going mad about the lyrics I write? Do they expect everyone to become Mirza Ghalib?

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

Not a lot of people know I wrote the lyrics for the Arsenal club song, 'Good Old Arsenal'. We had a competition on ITV for it, and none of the entries were any good, so I approached their manager, Bertie Mee, and asked him if he would let me have a stab. He did, and within a few weeks they were singing it at Wembley on the way to the 1971 double.

Is that how the song goes. It's the chorus!

We'd appraise each other, in the provisional way that lovers do, by attaching great depth and significance to the provisional. How, after all, do you know anyone? You take in certain physical and emotional characteristics that you've aestheticized, ignoring the facts. You listen to what a lover has to say, taking in the erotic music of their sound, their timbre, while dismissing the lyrics.

I'm a song writer, professional dreamer...

The shortest national anthem in the world is the Japanese one, which only consists of four lines. The Greek anthem on the other hand features an incredible 158 verses.

Barry Manilow didn't write the song he sings called I Write the Songs.

I ain't a street busker, I'm a microphone hustler, manipulating lyrics I'm a lyrical shuffler.

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Kanonische Veränderungen über das Weihnachtslied

They were William Blake's words, set to song

She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand like a lizard on the window-pane.

I am the eggman They are the eggmen! I am the walrus!

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow.