Quotes About Lyrics

I often find myself writing little ditties I can imagine becoming rap songs. Not the actual rapping part, just the chorus.

When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.

Well, I've been rapping for a long time.

I was rapping because there were so many things that I wanted to say. There weren't enough words for me to articulate all of the things that I wanted to say in a three minute song.

I'm without a doubt a producer first. The lyrics happen towards the tail-end of the process, mainly because they're more stream-of-consciousness. It's very rare that I'm going to tell a really concrete story.

I love to play around and have fun with my lyrics, but sometimes the messages are raw, and I also like to get emotional with them.

I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.

I've never seen myself as a pop singer. I grew up listening to gospel, soul and rock. My approach to pop is that, when I was doing my album, I wanted to have raw, genuine lyrics, but wanted it to be easy to process.

When hip-hop was new and raw, it was all about being an MC. You wanted to be respected as a lyricist. But as the years passed and hip-hop became big business, hip-hop became like country, rock and pop. And so you now have people who write the songs for rappers.

Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.

Music doesn't have to have lyrics; it doesn't have to be a particular type of music - it has the ability to bring out really strong and hopefully good emotional reactions in people.

I'm very passionate about music and was excited to see that the majority of readers loved the inclusion of lyrics.

When I met Zaeden, I bonded well with him he had an instrumental piece ready so we worked on it, composed, and added lyrics. Then we came up up with this EDM-Bollywood fusion.

When you listen to music, you can tell if it's a real love song or not.

My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

I'm obsessed with Lorde. Oh my gosh. I'm always listening to Lorde. Her music is so powerful.

I was the lead singer in a lot of the bands I was in. You have to be comfortable. You gotta get up there and sell the song. You have to get up there and sell the lyric. You gotta be able to feel it.

Performing 60,000 people, that's easy. The energy's already there. They're already doing most of the work. All you gotta do is not forget the words - and feed them energy, too.

Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something.

I think people just want to be popular. So they're going to write lyrics that are going to get your attention. You know, sometimes, they're a little graphic, and I don't think that's so necessary.

I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.

Shaft' is a great country song.

Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.