Quotes About Lyrics

I usually write to the beat. Really, the beat can make the song itself.

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

Stony Skunk, when they were with our company, had a song which I personally like called 'Red Light District.'

You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.

Lyrics are important, but it's hard, because English isn't my first language - although it feels like it is these days! I grew up with amazing melodies, so getting that right on a song has always been the key thing for me, but there's no reason why a great melody doesn't deserve great lyrics.

I've got songs that'll make a gangster cry.

Sometimes I'm sad and mostly I like sad songs.

Sad songs are what move people.

I've always said there aren't great composers- there are great songs.

I make no apologies for being a huge fan of radio songs.

A lot of songs I'm kind of singing and rapping.

Some of my favorite songs are slow songs, like Guns N' Roses' 'November Rain.'

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.

On 'Love Letters', I focused exclusively on songs with lyrics, creating a collection of songs that directly address heartbreak and its ensuing emotions in a way that instrumental music can only hint at.

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There's something hypnotic or meditative, and it mirrors the way that I am putting the sentence together, going back over the same phrases again and again.

Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.

Songs are all poetry, and they don't make any sense.

I am an incurable romantic. I am even in love with the idea of being in love, and hence, I write a lot of love songs.

Bob Marley was one of my favourite artists. He sang politically conscious lyrics, yet he sang love songs, too.

When I was performing the songs on 'Kiss Land,' it was a great singalong. But there were moments where I realized some parts were catchier than the others. There's maybe two choruses on all of 'Kiss Land.'

Some of my songs are turnt up, but that's just 'cause I have to make 'em like that so the clubs can play them.

All my songs are clean, and I am very careful about the lyrics, too.

I got a lot of experience for my age. Some artists might take a line or two from a bunch of songs and snip it together and make something, but everything I say I do.