Quotes About Lyrics

There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . .

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

The history of a people are found in its songs.

I grew up with all kinds of music, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Would you hear my voice come through the music Would you hold it near as it were your own?

My music is basically all about witty punchlines and lyric progression that is aimed to make you laugh or say "Woah."

Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice.

No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about music, about the band.

Singing songs that make you slit your wrists

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do - all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

Music without a message is just sound

I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.

It takes more talent to write music, but it takes more courage to write lyrics.

I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" is pretty clever.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music.

The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.

The things I see every day inspire my sound and lyrics, like certain people and situations that stick out in my mind. There are also certain musicians I love whose music and styles inspire me.

Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.