Quotes About Lyrics

My music has always been strong in melodic content.

People respond to something melodic.

Much as I adore the melodies, I choose a song for what it has to say.

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

I think country has the biggest melodies ever.

I'm always writing; my phone is full of ideas - melodies and lyrics and stuff.

I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning.

I've got so many melodies in my head.

Not playing guitar on 'World On Fire' gave me additional time to fine-tune lyrics and melodies, which improved the songs in the end. I'm very happy with how it turned out.

You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.

I think if you go to 'Strength of the World,' a song like that, the chorus isn't that great, but you go into the bridge and other things and the catchier parts and the better melodies we were really focused on.

There's the drums, the music, the melodies, the lyrics, the production, the artwork: there are so many elements to making an album, and the drumming is just a very small fraction of what I focus on.

I love amazing lyrics paired with amazing melodies.

I try to use a lot of rap elements but my main thing is melodies.

I write lyrics. putting words and melodies to my songs. That's a real challenge, I take it on vigorously.

People always talk about the lyrics of Leonard Cohen, but I like his melodies. They are very defined and original.

I just love catchy melodies.

I like good melodies and a great song.

Jim had melodies as well as words. He didn't know how to play a chord on any instrument, but he had melodies in his head. To remember the lyrics he would think of melodies and then they would stay in his head. He had melodies and lyrics in his head, and he would sing them a cappella, and we would eke out the arrangements.

I was always going out to joints in Jersey that played country music. I was always around it. I liked the lyrics, the simple melodies, the soulful-ness.

As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.

In 'Kill Rock n' Roll,' the choruses came about at the moment I was listening to a lot of the Supremes, and if you listen to that part, you can hear a melody and a harmony there that's not too far away from what the Supremes would probably be doing, but there's heavy guitars in the back.

That's pretty much how every song of mine works - I start with gibberish and melody and phrasing. I speak it naturally first. And then I think about lyrics that fit into that.

I would love to write a song that's exciting, bright, and has a fresh melody and lyrics.