Quotes About Lyrics

The song: Our youth is wasted We will not waste it Remember my name 'Cause we made history Na na na na, na na

Rock music in its lyrics often talks ahead of the time about what's going on in the country.

Sweet home AlabamaWhere skies are so blueSweet home AlabamaLord, I'm coming home to you.

Music is what feelings sound like.

"The curse of hell frae me sall ye bear,Sic counsels ye give to me, O!"

Singing a song with lyrics requires the time-locked integration of varied fragments of recall: the melody that guides the singing, the memory of the words, the memories related to the motor execution.

The music of the poem lends meaning to the words, and the meaning of the words lends music to the poem.

It was an Édith Piaf album, Chansons Parisiennes.

When people hear sing-songy melodies, they think the lyrics will be nice, too. I guess there's a depressing or psychotic side to my personality that pops out in the lyrics.

If I hear a conversation and somebody says something intriguing, my first thought is, 'Is that a song?' I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say which of these things do I want to record.

There's a song called 'All We'd Ever Need,' which is actually the first song that the three of us wrote together on our first album, and when we wrote that song I didn't have any real experience to pull from.

No shade, and shout out to Lil Pump, but on a track like 'Gucci Gang,' he's not really saying much.

I didn't record 'Pumped Up Kicks' out of a sense of moral obligation.

The phrase 'pumped up kicks,' man, I was excited when I came up with that.

I'm a huge fan of sing-songy lyrics and loud guitars. Whatever punk band does that gets a gold star!

I think Mighty Moe really got me into a whole different style of MCing. There were a lot of people with simple lyrics and simple word play- he really pushed out the boat.

'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.

The inspiration behind 'Tardy for the Party' was first and foremost my daughter Brielle. She co-wrote the original lyrics when she was nine years old.

Before I even pick up a guitar, usually the words are done. So I'm not first and foremost a musician. I'm first and foremost a writer.

The formula to my music is that it has to have comedy in it. The vulgarness cannot be digested without a little comedy.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

I'm definitely a writer. I don't even know how to freestyle.

I don't freestyle much.

I don't got nobody writing my lyrics and that's why I freestyle.