Quotes About Lyrics

Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else.

Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.

When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I was happy staying in that mode. It was more chordal based and more lyric driven. I enjoyed not making riff-based songs built around a guitar idea.

She sang along to Kenny Rogers

I choose to steal what you choose to show And you know I will not apologize— You're mine for the taking. I'm making a career of evil… Blue Öyster Cult, "Career of Evil" Lyrics by Patti Smith

The sky was yellow and the sun was blue...

humming a few bars of vintage Springsteen.

According to Lacey I had the lyrics all wrong. I sang like it sounded to me, because those words sounded right: I loved you I'm not going back I killed you I'm not going back.

This was where she belonged with Nur, right here, here in his songs. Here within the lyrics they were intimate, caught in the rythm of his words, proppelled by the substance of his dreams. These songs would be their story and these lyrics their home.

The problem isn't with rock lyrics, it's with the fabric of this society itself.

Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts; and Caderousse began to sing the two last lines of a song very popular at the time, —

MYTH #2: ROMANTIC LOVE IS THE ONLY REAL LOVE Look at the lyrics of popular songs, or read some classical poetry: the phrases we choose to describe romantic love don't really sound all that pleasant. Crazy in love, love hurts, obsession, heartbreak Ã¢â'¬Â¦ these are all descriptions of mental or physical illness.

Kush rolled, glass full, I prefer the better things.

Soap opera rappers, all these niggas sound like All My Children.

There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.

I want to say my life inspires my lyrics, but I also try to abstract them as much as possible because I don't want to refer to my life explicitly. I'm definitely really embarrassed by my lyrics.

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?

I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by my obedience, not my ability to confine my lyrics to this box or that.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

We take gingko to sharpen our memories. We could be memorizing song lyrics instead.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

Yeah, once the song is written, it just complexifies the profile of it to have the music and the words at odds. It comes naturally to me. A lot of my music is like that.

I think the simple message of that song is what attracted me to 'Every Day.' It's one of those simple yet profound lyrics.

I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to perform. I've just initiated the project. That leads the project into creating an independent label outside of game music.