Quotes About Lyrics

I don't want to go to university. I don't like unity and I hate verses. I just love the choruses of songs.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.

A song is a lot of things. But, first of all, a song is the voice of its time. Setting words to music gives them weight, makes then somehow easier to say, and it helps them to be remembered.

I write in the weirdest places. I wrote 'Girl on the Coast' in my car with the kids in the back and Eric driving. I just wrote the whole thing on my phone. I just typed out the lyrics.

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

I don't think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.

I love writing Christmas music. It's some of the easiest songs to write... You draw from your own memories - it's kind of a wellspring of inspiration, in a way. With other songs, you know, you spend six months just trying to figure out what to write about.

I grew up learning Russian and translating English songs when I became a teenager, we got to listen to West Germany radio stations, and learning lyrics with picture book. These are my first experiences with the English language.

Rap or hip-hop music emerged in the West because of the atrocities against the Blacks. Their lyrics had a certain style of rebellion and it was quite personal.

The way I rap is very west coast.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

If you ask me, I'd say what the world now considers K-Pop began with SM Entertainment. SM was the very first company to take musical influences from Western culture and incorporate Korean culture into that by rearranging and writing lyrics with our style.

I don't spend afternoons practicing my guitar to get better. I do read, though, to get inspiration for my lyrics.

I am good at composing but I try to write lyrics. I am too bad at that. I am still trying. You become good after practicing and I am doing that.

I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to do was write a song in praise of Chicago, and that's what I did.

I'm writing a musical. I am. I was able to buy the rights to 'The Preacher's Wife,' which starred Whitney Houston... I'm writing a whole new score and all the lyrics for it.

My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.

I have always preferred paper and ink to a computer screen and I still write most of my lyrics by hand.

The thing I admired most about Scott was his fearlessness. Of course his voice, lyrics, and stage presence have always had an effect on me as they have most STP fans. But it was his fearlessness that I admired the most.

We all write the lyrics together, but Frank really shines on 'em pretty good.

My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.