Quotes About Lyrics

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

I was essentially trained by Oscar Hammerstein to think of songs as one-act plays, to move a song from point A to point B dramatically.

The songs that are on my playlist find themselves there because I can identify with the lyrics, or they have some magical transformative power in the beat.

I think when you translate songs, you lose the real essence and the meaning.

I wouldn't exclude writing another song in German, but I don't want to translate songs anymore. We used to sit down and literally translate every song word for word - it was very technical, and the songs would lose so much along the way.

Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing

If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.

The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice.

The male-female relationship, as a subject for song," Albini wrote, "is thoroughly bankrupt.

Literally every one of MacKaye's lyrics was addressed to some unidentified second person.

Like the music itself, the lyrics were very concise and unambiguous

record collection, with all those lifetimes and desires rhymed and distilled into two or three minutes of a song.

For me, music always leads. Lyrics are only about how they sing. It is wonderful if they read well, too. In the very best scenario, sometimes a lyric will pop out with a melody, simultaneously. That's a lovely thing, but you can't rely on that.

Country music is what is sincere; that's the main thing.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

If you're gonna sing, sing 'em something they can understand.

Listening to Nat Cole prompted me to sing sentimental songs with distinct diction.

To go on the road and see people sing my own lyrics back to me is just fantastic.

I sing in the morning.

If you want people to know what your message is, just sing it.

I like the music that I sing, cos I, like, feel it more.

'Paani ravi da' is a very difficult song to sing.

When you sing for a film, you are not in control, because somebody else is directing it; somebody is doing the lyrics.

I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.