Quotes About Lyrics

I write in a mathematical manner. For some of my songs, I rhyme every syllable. It's a science.

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.

I used to print out lyrics from Nas songs and write my own lyrics in the same syllable count but with different words and different rhymes.

Legs' wouldn't be 'Legs' unless it had that driving synth bass.

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.

Even at the time, I realised this couldn't be right, that this interpretation didn't fit with the rest of the lyrics. But that wasn't an issue with me. The song was about what I said, and I used to listen to it again and again, on my own, whenever I got the chance.

I can take about an hour on the tower of power, as long as I gets a little golden shower.

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs.

Well-written words are music.

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.

A lot of country music is sad.

My words are not that powerful. I started saying in 1985 I don't think we should have a music talking about ni**ers and b*tches and h*es. It had no impact. I've said it. I've repeated it. I still repeat it. To me, that's more damaging than a statue of Robert E. Lee.

They recalled the lyrics word for word. They had sung them before their meals and meetings, before each combat mission, during the drills, seeing comrades off to the hospital or cemetery.

he and Smokey would exchange pickup lines and laments and rhymes until they had possible stanzas for a new song. One came up with "You got a smile so bright / you know you coulda been a candle." The other responded with "I'm holding you so tight / You know you coulda been a handle." And eventually they had composed "The Way You Do the Things You Do.

But even a wonderful soloist needs a song. Even a pitch-perfect voice needs a message.

Poetry became his favorite genre; he memorized poetic lyrics and recited them often. For him, poetry organized and crystalized experience as no other type of language did.

After a moment I realized it was simply Fred Durst and the group Limp Bizkit—Shitload's favorite band. They're the ones who invented the musical technique of feeding a list of generic rap phrases to a goat, then reading its turds into a microphone over heavy metal guitar.

[H]e sang words without sense, but their tone went to his heart...

Ghosts sit in my mouth and sing.

Country music is about new love and it's about old love.

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