Quotes About Lyrics

If you want to relate me to the newer cats, let's go. Let's go line for line and bar for bar. If it's all about spitting and metaphors and MCing and lyrics and entendres, I will eat 99 percent of you dudes up.

On 'Check Your Head' and 'Ill Communication,' most of the lyrics are much more, 'OK, you take that, and I'll say that' - they're split up.

I first sang 'Holding Back the Years' in my earliest band, Frantic Elevators. When the Elevators split and I started Simply Red, I returned to the song and wrote the 'I'll keep holding on' chorus.

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

Mercer was very clever. He knew the way Southerners spoke and put that into his lyrics. But in that whole era, you had the best. Harold Arlen was just fantastic. Cole Porter was better than anybody, and Gershwin was Gershwin, y'know. Johnny Mercer started Capitol Records, and he brought in Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Nat King Cole.

I feel like the albums I grew up listening to - for example, Eminem, Lauryn Hill, Christina Aguilera - they all spoke about real stuff that was happening in their life and everyone else's life.

I'm sorry, I see everything in life as a song, so every word spoken is lyrics. If you're going to get to know me, that is something you have to be okay with.

Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.

I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.

The opening strains of "Comfortably Numb.

Written words can also sing.

music does have an implicit message of its own; it makes its case very pointedly. If that were not the case, then classical music would not have succeeded to the extent that it did ... It makes me very angry ... when people concentrate only on the lyrics because that's to imply there is no message stated in the music itself, which wipes out hundreds of years of classical music. Ridiculous.

If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music

I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that.

My brother came home from college with a Mountain Goats cassette and I was like, 'What is this?' The lyrics were crazy to me. I'd never heard anything like it.

But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

I don't really plan what comes out of my mouth, and that's what makes most of my lyrics entertaining.

I like anything by 50 Cent and Snoop Dog. I love the way they mouth their way around words.

Sometimes the lyrics just fall out of my mouth.

I am moved by music, and certain things just make my day.

When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me.