Quotes About Lyrics

Who was it had said when you fall in love all the popular songs suddenly seemed to mean something.

Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.

What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life.

I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like that.

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

Meanwhile, everybody's looking through songbooks, trying to decide what songs to put in.

Logan's voice switched from a growl to a scream to a seductive whisper from one song to the next.

Even the second time around, the lyrics and melody reached through my ears, bypassed my brain, and went straight to my heart, where they wriggled around, causing a hundred different pains.

Like Oscar Hammerstein, LaChiusa knows that characters express themselves in their own wording as well as their own music.

I remember being struck that, as with the Old Possum poems, Eliot had written "Billy McCaw" with a defined verse and chorus almost as if he were writing lyrics. Here Eliot betrays that he was American. I don't believe any British poet wrote at the time like this. Years later Valerie told me that Eliot invariably had a hit tune of the time in his head when he wrote what she called his "off-duty" poems.

He didn't sing the words, he inebriated them.

Doré mi sol así las olas y la espuma que en tu cuerpo canta, canta -más por tus senos que por tu garganta- do re mi sol la si la sol la si la.

You know what, if you play 'She Looks So Perfect' backwards... you just listen to it.

A good song is a good song whatever your age.

With 'Wagon Wheel,' I loved the visual it painted, and it's a song I can truly say I look forward to performing every night.

I don't sing in the shower, but my go to song to sing in the car: 'Clouds to the left to me. Jokers to the right. Here I am.' 'Stuck in the Middle With You' by Stealers Wheel.

Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.

Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you don't feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel you're making art.

I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.