Quotes About Lyrics

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively - and there were a lot of choices - writing songs was king.

I think my favorite thing is songwriting.

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe.

I think Bob Dylan showed us that songs can rise to the level of literature, and he proved it over and over again. That's why they keep trying to get him a Nobel Prize for literature: because there is no Nobel Prize for songwriting.

The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy. I wrote about everyday stuff.

I am really heavy into songwriting.

I always found very strong images for my songwriting in New York.

In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community.

I get a lot of my songwriting done while driving around Nashville - sometimes it comes to me that way.

My songwriting is personal in the hope that listeners will know that I relate to them.

I remember when I started writing lyrics, I was very grand. I tried to use a lot of symbols,because I thought that's how songwriting should be - with imagery and metaphor. I figured, after a while, maybe I should just write it as I would say in real life.

My favorite way to get into the songwriting process is to get into the studio, and then usually, they play a loop of four chords, or something, or guitar, and then I just start singing.

Songwriting is telling short stories. But instead of 15 to 20 pages, it's three to five minutes.

When it comes to the 1990s songs, we all can recall them by their beautiful poetry, melody and how soothing they were to the soul.

If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.

Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.

Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.

I feel like Black Milk has found his way of putting his life into his music. I feel like, lyrically, he is a beast; a lot of people sleep on Black Milk. Black Milk is a monster. He from church. He from the street. He get down how I get down. He's a soulful cat, and I love how he get down.

You have to find a sound that reflects what our souls feel like inside, how our bodies actually feel. That's why we made our own beats. We couldn't find a producer who could give us the feeling to match our lyrics.

You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It's all about the inflection.