Quotes About Lyrics

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music.

Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

If you go into the eastern bloc countries we are huge, and in Russia. Maybe there is something about the depressing nature of our music and lyrics that some people find an affinity with.

My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn't come across - the music was pretty.

Who among us has not sought peace in a song?

You're the girl from the song- the girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

Birds, birds, birds, I'm a Pet Shop Boy

I'm trap in marriage with gangsta rhyme and my street life.

I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs.

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.

I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins; he's better than Richard Wilbur; he's better than me.

Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.

The poetry of country music will survive.

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.

Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.