Quotes About Lyrics

My songs always speak of love, that's the way I like them.

I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

But the more you thing about it, I think the best songwriter is the one who makes you feel like you are in the best place in the world when you are listening to his or her songs. The one who makes you understand yourself a little better when your ears hear their words. At that moment, that songwriter is the best. That's the beauty of a song.

abe said where d'you want this killin done / God said out on highway 61

I've got to know that I'm singing something with truth to it. My songs are different than anybody else's songs. Other artists can get by on their voices and their style, but my songs speak volumes, and all I have to to is lay them down correctly, lyrically, and they'll do what they need to do.

Sometimes people ask songwriters what a song means, not realizing if they had more words to explain it they would've used them in the song.

her skirt it swayed as the guitar played her mouth it was watery and yet ...

bob dylan new orleans

Well, the devil's in the alley, mule's in the stall Say anything you wanna, I have heard it all. -Bob Dylan

After Lou heard my Guthrie song, he asked me if I ever wrote any songs about baseball players.

Then there's the trap of easy rhymes.

The chilling precision that these old-timers used in coming up with their songs was no small thing.

She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique...

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

Jann Arden singing in the background. The strange, voyeuristic lyrics of "Living Under June" touched off thoughts of her own

Strings and blades are your domain, Mercurio. We'll prevail on your for a song.

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I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.

What I love is when I play gigs, it's just me and a guitar - very simple, very direct and intimate, and you hear every lyric, and you hear every detail.

Listening to my records, you feel one way about it when you hear it, but reading my words - that makes us a little bit more intimate.

I listen to the Avett Brothers all the time. I find their music interesting and introspective.

Mainstream pop is a bit more introspective and emotional now, like how Adele's 'Someone Like You' is everyone's favorite song, and it's so heartbreaking.

My favorite song is 'No Air,' a duet I did with Chris Brown. I don't want to sound weird or anything, but I listen to it a lot - it's always on my iPod!

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.