Quotes About Lyrics

I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.

Without Louie Louie a symphony is not quite so grand.

In the mountains our throats become free. It's a wonder we don't break into song.

When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've flipped it.

My favorite Taylor Swift song is between 'Blank Space' and 'Wildest Dreams.'

I love Hank Williams, he's the original emo kid. Some of his lyrics remind me of, like, Promise Ring lyrics.

The hits always wind up being the songs with big, high choruses. They're the ones too high to sing every night - not that you'll ever, ever hear me complain about having to try.

When you listen to early Leonard Cohen records or Joni Mitchell records, you feel like a window is being opened into someone's life.

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

People are always surprised to find this out, but the songs that we write, such as 'Winner of a Losing Game' and things like that, tend to be more country than the other stuff that we cut from outside writers.

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else.

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.

I realized probably when I was, like, 20 years old that the hardest thing to do is to write a pop song - not, like, a candy-pop, throwaway pop song.

The first line of the song is always the hardest thing to write. And then after that, the song should - unless it sucks - it should write itself.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

Country songs are theatrical songs, they tell stories, and wear the hearts on their sleeves and they have great melodies.

I've got my interests and my life experiences as I'm putting lyrics together. And if you start looking at patterns, you start thinking, 'Well, what am I really singing about here?' A lot of it seems to be a battle for some freedom against oppressive forces. That seems to be a theme in a lot of the albums I've done.

Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and singing, the chorus and all that, it just starts flowing. Then it's done in about an hour! I write a lot of songs.