Quotes About Lyrics

I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.

The battle thing is very important in hip-hop, but at the same time, I want to sit down and have a beer and listen to Rakim.

I heard her singing.

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.

A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.

I wrote and recorded a song that I highly doubt I will release. The lyrics are somewhat risque. I may have to create an alter ego, and she can be the 'singer.'

When I wrote for Eazy, I wrote for the character. Everybody knew Eazy loved girls, so I would make him funny, even though it was somewhat misogynistic.

It doesn't matter where I'm at - if I'm somewhere sitting still for more than an hour, rhymes start popping in my head... It's just kinda instilled in me.

Usually, I'll just be walking from my house to somewhere else, and melodies and words will start coming up, and I'll have to run home to write it all down.

I think I enjoy Sondheim so much because of the lyrics. The lyrics, the cornucopia of options.

Even though we try not to be nostalgic about drawing from old music, I'm always inspired by things like old Cole Porter songs or the words in the Gershwin songs or even Stephen Sondheim, where there's a real craft to them but it isn't only that you're hearing the words it's that it links so well with the music.

A good song never gets old.

I always like a good song: puts me in a good mood.

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

I just like a good, sad song. The sadder, the better. It moves me.

You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.

To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.

'My Name Is' by Eminem was a song that changed my life.

A song is a burden that you carry happily.

Listening to the radio makes you hate every song.

A song's lyrics can't be held culprit for the overall change in society.

Seven' is this kind of nostalgic, emotional folk song.

You have to learn how to act a pop song. You have to find the balance of the pop from the pop song and the lyrical significance of the scene you are in.

The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.