Quotes About Lyrics

I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.

For a while, I was working on transcribing rap lyrics and then converting them into rhythmic patterns on the piano. And so in my mind, when I was taking a solo, I would be saying the lyrics and trying to play actual notes to their rhythms. Now, the influence just comes in and out in my playing.

The way we write our solo songs is that we take the emotions that we feel and put them in the lyrics. And we try to put them in the songs.

I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.

My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive.

It's amazing what some people read into songs.

There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.

Some things have never changed in India. Melody, for one. The sound has changed, the rhythm has changed, and lyrics have become more contemporary.

Whether my lyrics are about love or something else, I always make sure I'm connecting with my fans, and to see their support is definitely a motivation.

Love songs or poetry?Ambrose: Love songs–you get the best of both, poetry set to music.And you can't dance to poetry.

Maybe the key to finding the perfect song is simply rewriting the lyrics.

I'd love to have a Christmas classic under my belt. It's hard to write a Christmas song.

Everybody has their favorite sad songs. That's part of what I love so much about country music. Country music is never afraid to go with a sad song.

I was raised on songs of poetry like Simon and Garfunkel and Cat Stevens and Neil Young, etc. I love those old songs probably the most because they hit me so deep down in my core.

If I had the choice, I would sing only love songs.

'Endless Love' is such a perfect love song for a wedding or for a Valentine, because that is the committed kind of endless love. All the lyrics are perfect.

Al-most-blue...con due pause in mezzo, due respiri sospesi da cui si capisce, si sente che sta tenendo gli occhi chiusi. Per questo mi piace Almost blue. Perchè è una canzone che si canta ad occhi chiusi.

We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music

A letra da canção é o que julgamos entender, mas o que nos faz acreditar nela é sempre a música.

La letra de la canción es lo que creemos entender, pero lo que nos hace creerla o no es la música.

We think we understand a songs lyrics, but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music.

Songs speak to me," she whispered. "They always have. They get down into my heart and strike emotions so deep that I wonder where they come from.

In my early years, I was much too ignorant and didn't realize how desperately important it all is, how really important the lyrics are. And for me as a singer, I am a lady who takes the lyrics first.

My songs have a layer of melancholy.