Quotes About Lyrics

Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.

I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.

I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and really honest in her lyrics.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

Country singers put a lot of soul into their songs, and I enjoy that.

My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'

We singers have a different level of responsibility from other musicians. We have words that we must convey; we have meanings that we must convey through these lyrics.

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

One of the greatest gifts we have is our own mistakes and somebody singing about them.

There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.

I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings.

I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.

We all love to sing along with our favorite songs. We sing in the car, in the shower, and at the karaoke bar. The problem is that half the time we don't know what we're singing. We're making up lyrics as we go along and hoping no one will notice.

I missed being onstage behind the microphone. After a while, it was hard to hear another voice singing my lyrics.

I love singing romantic numbers.

I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.

When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't rely on the singing voice.

I live country songs every single day of my life, so thank goodness I decided that was my passion!

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

If a girl sings a sexy song, I actually become even more attracted to them.

I said if a woman sings an aggressive guy's lyric, it can't miss.

What I look for in a voice is for it to be unique. I don't really care if a singer sings well. Really, it's about emotion, or being able to sing the lyrics and actually mean it. A lot of singers sing good notes but forget about what words they use.

One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics.

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.