Quotes About Lyrics

Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.

Lyrics are coming to you all the time. I get inspiration in the middle of the night.

I've always been a MC that wrote socially and politically aware songs, although I listen to all types of hip-hop. This time around I got tracks that make me say "Tupac Shakur would be proud."

If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.

I find myself improvising a lot. But, sometimes I'll come us with a chorus or just one line and it will sort of hang out for a long time before it get's flushed out into a real living song.

Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?

My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's "I Remember Sky." It's probably the saddest song of all time I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.

I love playing in Japan! It's always like being in the ancient past and the future at the same time. And the fans sing along to every word.

Había una canción en todos los corazones; y si el corazón era joven, la canción asomaba a los labios.

Todos tenían frases de canciones pop que tenían algo que ver con el futuro

Then they all began to sing. The tune was "Happy Birthday," but the lyrics had changed. "Something happened . . . TO YOU! Something happened . . . TO YOU! Something happened, dear Jamie, something happened TO YOU!" That was when I began to scream.

Music on the radio. When I went in, the big bands were just getting up a good head of steam. Now every song sounds like it's about fucking.

One reason why love songs are better than love itself is that you can replay them.

If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.

I could eat alphabet soup and shit better lyrics.

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Phillip is a repository of random snatches of film dialogue and song lyrics. To make room for all of it in his brain, he apparently cleared out all the areas where things like reason and common sense are stored.

You have to question the originality of your life when it can be captured perfectly in the lyrics of a rock song.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Damn. How much damage can you do with a pen?

When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to but I didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is 10 times sicker than I am.

But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail.

You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em But you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em