Quotes About Lyrics

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

I feel that I speak the musical language.

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.

Whether lyrically or musically, it reaches in there and grabs your soul. That's the stuff I gravitate toward.

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

There's something to writing a hook and something to writing a memorable melody. That's what I liked about musicals. Then I realized I could write my own songs, and I didn't have to sing other people's.

People go to musicals because they want to hear some really good songs.

I like to compose, but only for myself. I write my own lyrics and compose the music around them.

What was special about Leonard Cohen's work was its calm mystery.

I hear music as narrative.

I love when I dive into lyrics that give me human complexity and intricate narrative.

Nashville is the business center. They forget that the bottom line of it all is still the song.

I wanted to get better at writing, so I knew I needed to move to Nashville.

My raps be crazy, and my hooks are nasty.

When she couldn't sleep and the nightmares were too close, she listened to them, sang the lyrics and let them carry the worst of her past away.

I think I'm dumb or maybe just happy think I'm just happy...

singing ballads whose words had never known paper but lived only on the rasping edge of their own voices.

Shut your mouth up before I buck lead and make a lot of blood shed/ Turn your tux red, I'm far from broke, got enough bread/ And mad hoes...ask Beavis I get nothin' butt head

I probably got your mommy strung, niggas hear me and take more notes than conny chung, my clan plans to get julieanni hung.

I'm feelin' like Billy Bathgate, My rap style is passed great, I love to fuck a bitch from the back and watch her ass shake.

Big L is that nigga you expect to catch rep on any cassette deck, I'm so ahead of my time my parents haven't met yet.

Ayo my crew be deliverin hot lead when gats I clench, rappers I jack and lynch, nobody could fuck with the way I be killing up shit in rap events.