Quotes About Lyrics

Essentially I'm a melody person in a rhythm age, and that's what Broadway is really about, the songs.

Within Klaxons, I never wrote the lyrics. I always wrote the melody and music with the other guys.

I think you can do a lot with lyrics and melody.

I was a B.I.G. fan. I like all of his stuff. I don't really have a favorite song. They all are good, and each brings different memories to me. And you can still listen to it to this day and it means something.

I have a terrible memory in general, but one thing I've always been able to remember is my songs.

Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.

Freddie Mercury made a lot of sense to me even though I didn't understand the lyrics.

I love cover songs, but I always mess up the words!

I've always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it's great when you can do that - be succinct and get the message across in a simple, clear idea.

If you're really listening there are alot of hidden messages in my songs.

Our sound is really hard metal but looks cute, and in some parts of the song the lyrics are really cute.

Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.

Waka Flocka Flame, some of his lyrics are, like, common sentences. But just the way he is, and the way he delivers it, makes it this crazy metal hip-hop.

Unfortunately, I think metal bands don't have too much to say in their lyrics, and never care about it. We just decided not to be like that.

Metallica is my favorite band.

I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know. I think people miss that.

My fans have always loved my metaphors.

Hip-hop is not all '2 Chainz' - although '2 Chainz' is awesome. How he does that with metaphors, I don't know.

I find songs today very fake. I can't write according to the meter, but I can write from my heart.

Just give me a mic, and I'll rock it.

It's really hard to find a lot of things that rhyme with Michael Diamond.

I think it's hilarious that you would give an endorsement deal to someone who you've heard their lyrics a million times and you thought it was cool. And then they said something a little messed up and you take the endorsement deal away.

I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.

There are still artists that do a great job with a song, and they care about the lyrics, and it's not just mindless drivel.