Quotes About Lyrics

Nuts they go, macadamia they go so ballistic, whoa.

Come in quella canzone incredibile dei Cure dove lei è bellissima e il povero la guarda ammirato e lei si sente offesa e Robert Smith dice: «Ecco perché ti odio».

I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.

How much easier it would be if when you played them slowly in reverse the lyrics really did, as some hysterical parents feared, reveal satanic messages; if there were a backmasked secret order, however dark, instead of rage at emptiness.

With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music - you can't do that in jazz. You can't do that with classical.

It is titled 'Song of Joy.' The lyrics are inspiring and I hope it appeals to people. The track will help them reflect on the goodness that is inside them.

I always felt that rap didn't cause crime; it just reflected it.

I was making the music and writing the songs which reflected the emerging consciousness of my generation.

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

I had deeper, more reflective songs on the first album.

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.

I'd always tended to regard song lyrics as sort of a bastard medium because they're subjugated under the music. If you were to regard them as poetry, it would be bad, embarrassing, confessional poetry - a lot of the lyrics I love.

I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.

I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot more brash, a lot more bold, a lot more loquacious. There are a lot more words that go into a hip-hop song than go into a regular song.

Gavin DeGraw - his first record is the reason that I wanted to start writing music. The way that he says something that everybody says on a regular basis but he says it differently. It makes you kind of perk up and listen.

I write in the booth and memorize in rehearsals.

I personally believe that I was... a previous life or something... a previous reincarnation, a bard of some sort, because most of the things I write about are descriptions of places I've never been to.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

Country music tell stories. That's something that I can relate to.

I want to put out music that everyday people can relate to.

I didn't write those songs, but I can relate to every one of them... I have.

Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.

Melodic songs that people can relate to has always been our thing.

Too many times you come across lyrics that sound like you've heard them before or you can't really relate to them. And I think that I write songs that sound fresh and sensual in kind of a layered, lush way. But I also think that they are real, and that's why I wanted to call the record 'Inside Out.'