Quotes About Lyrics

'Dirt On My Boots' is a very different song. I heard the melody, and I heard the lyrics, and I heard the drive of that song. I totally related. It was kinda me when I was on my bulldozer working for my dad.

Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music.

To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

I've had people come up to me with the strangest interpretations of what my lyrics might mean, and I'm like, "You go! I never thought of that, but that works,"...I think that true art is a universal reflection, and true artists are just messengers of that reflection or, at best, skilled presentors.

I love music.

The women in the kitchen sang: Sarampión toca la puerta. Viruela dice: ¿Quién es? Y Escarlatina contesta: ¡Aquí estamos los tres! The cook would sometimes shout a little madly, "Sing it again!" And the women would sing again: Measles knocks at the door. Smallpox asks, Who's there? And Scarlet Fever replies: All three of us are here!

Drunk all the time, feeling fine on elderberry wine.

....the songs are universal enough that in ten years time they should still hold up quite well.

The first time I heard The Beatles, I cried. It was 'Let it Be'.

I've been a fan of hip-hop for a really long time, and I still am.

People tell me all the time that my songs help them express things to loved ones that they may not be able to say themselves.

Bob Dylan, Lyrics: 1962-2001

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

I was blessed with the talent. God gave me the gift to put words together and make popular songs.

See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!

I think there ought to be a little music here: hum, hum.

And now I think about it, Doctor, it would appear that I have a growth on one of my testicles sounds like a Morrissey lyric, one he rejected as being too gloomy—that and the fact that finding a plausible rhyme for testicles would have been beyond even his considerable lyrical gifts.)

Music blows lyrics up very quickly, and suddenly they become more than art. They become pompous and they become self-conscious ... I firmly believe that lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you not only have the music, but you've got costume, story, acting, orchestra. There's a lot to take in.

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

I rap for the trees...for the trees have no tongues.