Quotes About Lyrics

I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.

How much do you know of La Mayonnaise?" she inquired. He shrugged. "Maybe up to the part that goes 'Aux armes, citoyens'—

In the buses all night she listened to transistor radios playing songs in the lower stretches of the Top 200, that would never become popular, whose melodies and lyrics would perish as if they had never been sung. A Mexican girl, trying to hear one of these through snarling static from the bus's motor, hummed along as if she would remember it always, tracing post horns and hearts with a fingernail, in the haze of her breath on the window.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

Y, aún con todo, la gente quiere llegar al otro, al corazón del otro, por eso existe la música: si no eres capaz de decirlo, cántalo.

And there is the offending line "Black girls just wanna get fucked all night" from "Some Girls." Well, we've been on the road with a lot of black chicks for many years, and there's quite a few that do. It could have been yellow girls or white girls.

It just came, tripping off the tongue, then and there. When you're writing this shit, you've got to put your face in front of the microphone, spit it out. Something will come.

The words he writes to his music, they're poetry.

He koude songes make and wel endyte.

I did not know then that words and music are more deadly than any spear.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

Rock n' roll is the music where you can get away with pretty much saying everything, and it's OK. You can say truths in really interesting and good ways and really express yourself through it.

Some of those early Kinks songs, we were barely in tune.

The art of sewing lyrics with the tune is very interesting as a music director.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.

As long as a tune has the power to move me, I'm a lifelong fan.

I don't know how to carry a tune.

Look, when a song becomes a hit, it happens because of its tune and melody, and not for the lyrics in the first place.

When I write, it is always the melody that comes first, and it just happens to be the case that the most beautiful tunes are sad, and the lyrics follow the mood of the melody.

A lot of our earlier material was freestyle tunes.

It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.

I've always been a fan of Drake's. I wouldn't say I listen to all of his music, but I would say that I pick tunes out of his that I love and then put them on repeat.

I love melodic tunes and I think Kannada listeners have an ear for romantic songs.

Music is nostalgia. We often connect to a song, to its lyrics, its tunes so much that it feels like we have known those songs all along.