Quotes About Lyrics

I was raised listening to, like, Jay and Big and Pac, Cassidy, Ludacris, even some of Drake's stuff.

I was raised on pop music.

I've always freestyle-d and did random songs.

Gary Allan has long been one of country's most reliably velvet-voiced beautiful losers.

I'm a big Bob Dylan fan. I'm also a blues geek.

Rammstein's music demands German lyrics.

For people who write songs, it's a gift you're given. You become good at the craft, but you're given the gift.

We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.

As a boy, I was known for reciting whole songs after one listen. I've always had a good memory for lyrics. It's weird because I don't have a good memory for other things. I remember lyrics easier than the shopping list.

You get the beats. You write to them. You go in the studio and lay it down. Hopefully, a song comes out sounding good. If it comes out sounding good, you put it to the side with the rest of the other good ones, and you try to decide which ones you're gonna use on the album.

A good song gathers the years in. It's why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it's been written.

A good song is a good song.

I love songs, and I love to tell stories, and so a lot of times, if you really want a good story, you got to flip the radio dial over to country.

I want to be romantic, and songs are a good way to do that.

I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.

Earl Sweatshirt is very wise.

'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' and 'Wish You Were Here' are standout tracks. 'Comfortably Numb' is another one. 'High Hopes' from 'The Division Bell' is one of my favorite all-time Pink Floyd tracks. 'The Great Gig in the Sky,' 'Echoes,' there's lot of them.

I'm definitely not a nerd... but maybe I'm a bit of a nerd when it comes to music and lyrics and things like that. Other than that, I'm definitley not a nerd. I wish I was, though.

The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.

I think a good guitar solo sounds so much better within the context of a good song.

A recreation is not the same as a remix. A recreation has a new element added to it. There are new lyrics added to it. A new composition is introduced within the existing one and I feel that's tougher to do.

I just wanted to make good music that people related to me and said 'Yo that guy makes good music. When he gives us an effort, it's good music behind it. It's great lyrics, it's witty punchlines, it's great metaphors.'

I like Kendrick as an artist. He's witty and he's smart when he's spitting in his lyrics. And he's crafty.