Quotes About Lyrics

I love a lot of Irish folk music and Irish folk songs.

'Jaago Zara' was never going to be irrelevant. It had great lyrics, and was a great song even back in the day.

Charli XCX is able to write these really catchy, sexy, irreverent, fun hooks.

People misinterpret my lyrics sometimes too, but I mean, it is what it is.

From the first album, we've had songs like 'The Jack' that are blues based. We also did it in 'Ride On,' where we went into the blues.

With James Brown, I just learn the lyrics and then get out there and get funky with it and let my spirit free. But doing Charles Bradley, it's a lot of true, intimate words coming out of me that show me the picture inside myself.

I like jamming to rap.

In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.

And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.

One thing that brings everyone together are the lyrics. Even if the people singing don't know the Japanese words, they still sing along.

Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.

I used to listen to Jay Z a lot.

I like Jay-Z for his lyrics, his flow; he's always forward thinking.

I may not be as lyrically adept as Jay-Z and Morrissey, but at least I can sing what I feel.

I stopped writing lyrics down on paper after me and Jay-Z did 'Money In the Bank.' They're something I just hold in my mind.

Jim Morrison wrote the words for 'Hello, I Love You' when we were still in a band called Rick & the Ravens.

I know every Skynyrd and about all Johnny Cash songs.

Redrum' - that joint hard. It's one of my best.

I'd write ya spicy songs to slither out of your throat like barracudas.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Every word after that had been unintelligible, dissolved in amplification. Blackburn rather enjoyed that. He thought that any band that believed its lyrics were crucial was kidding itself. Kids out on Saturday night wanted to drink, dance, yell "Wooooooo!" and have sex with somebody. They didn't want to hear a bad poet bare the angst in his tortured and immature soul. They could go to college for that shit.

There probably are very few perfect tracks—tracks that never grow old and never cease to cause wonder. From the '70s and '80s, the following songs immediately spring to my mind as candidates: "The Battle of Evermore," "Spirit of Eden," "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed," "Close to the Edge," "In Your Eyes," "Thick as a Brick," "Cinema Show," "Echoes," and "The Killing Moon.

No será que hay sentimientos tan fuertes que, sencillamente, no pueden expresarse con palabras, sino que hay que cantarlos?

I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.