Quotes About Lyrics

Here's a little song I wrote. You might want to sing it note for note. Don't worry, be happy.

I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

Early on I was a fan of Grandmaster Caz of the Cold Crush Brothers. I liked the way that he used a bunch of words to rhyme together in one line. And I picked up sarcasm by watching the older cats at the barbershop. They were just out there talking and saying slick lines to one another. I also got inspiration from Smokey Robinson.

I've always loved melody and pop hooks, slightly left of centre but I have always tried to balance it with songs that have lyrics you can sing along to.

I first came across Langhorne Slim when I saw him play live, and he's an incredibly infectious performer. The way he works the crowd is mind-blowing. You can listen to his music without really listening to his lyrics, but it pays off if you do.

Whenever I write lyrics and an Americanism slips in, I always cut it straight out. I can't use the word 'babe,' for instance. It makes me cringe.

I don't believe songs that try to say everything in a simple slogan.

We come up with slogans on the road and then we start putting them on the songs.

We started very slow in America. It was small acoustic shows. We played places like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago and everywhere there has been a great reaction. It has been really lovely. They listen to the lyrics and the melody over there and the reaction has been fantastic.

Times are such that poetry has been slowly drifting away from our songs and the language of conversation is used a lot more as lyrics. I believe such attempts create mundane songs, and they hardly stand the test of time.

I love Miranda Lambert; I think she's wonderful. I love the song 'Love Letters' and 'Famous in a Small Town.'

Nahmir got smash hits.

I like Patti Smith's lyrics, and sometimes think I could be influenced by them. But she has a kind of cool that's beyond me.

My song 'Smooth Operator,' I think that's a real simple, easy, sing-a-long kind of song. It's not too complicated.

I grew up on listening to, like, Mantronix and BDP and EPMD and Kool G Rap and Ultramag and Public Enemy and Fat Boys and Run DMC and a lot of those early records, those Rubin-era records. Those were always snare- and stab-heavy records.

When I found out that my mom was sneaking listening to my music, I decided to make sure that my music is very clean.

I love all things Queen - their songs are epic storytelling.

I really love things with melody.

It just seemed like there were loads of bands in England writing about walking down the street and falling in love.

The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love.

While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.

What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.

I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.