Quotes About Lyrics

I'm known for snatching purses, and bombing churches, I get more pussy by accident than most niggas get on purpose.

A Tec-9 is my utensil, Fillin' niggas with so much lead they could use they dick for a pencil.

And I do wish she wouldn't sing about poisoning just after we have eaten.

Songwriters are the salt of the Earth.

Life is beautiful and life is stupid. This is, in fact, widely regarded as a universal rule not less inviolable than the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Uncertainty Principle, and No Post on Sundays. As long as you keep that in mind, and never give more weight to one than the other, the history of the galaxy is a simple tune with lyrics flashed on-screen and a helpful, friendly bouncing disco ball of all-annihilating flames to help you follow along.

Ragtime plinking, glasses clinking, choruses getting sung with only half the lyrics right, giggles bubbling over like a tower of champagne. It's a party, shaking down the dawn.

I save my truths, my secrets, for the lyrics of our songs... nobody would ever spot them there, hiding in plain sight.

Show me a church's songs and I'll show you their theology.

I'm sexy and I mow it.

Advice on lyrics given me years ago by the conductor Mark Elder seems worth pondering: if it shouts well, he said, it will probably sing well.

There's definitely a Leos Carax universe that he has created in his films; we've done something similar with our music and lyrics. He's a pretty uncompromising filmmaker and we feel the same way.

When you hear my lyrics, you hear the shots that I throw at people. I throw shots because I always been the underdog. I got rejected so many times, and I say it in my lyrics constantly.

When you look at hip-hop, I want to do that: to spit fire and take our best from the ashes to build our kingdom; to recognize all the regional styles, conscious lyrics, the tracks, underground, mainstream, the way we treat each other. Lose the garbage and rebuild our scene.

The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.

The bottom line is fans just want to hear a good song. Some people will look underneath to see who wrote it, but they just want to hear a good song. And if they don't hear it, they're not going to buy it just because you wrote it.

Lyrics are so important, but they're really underrated.

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

I don't like lyrics to be overbearing. I like them to say something. But I'm not trying to change the world overnight. Something simple and understandable that people can relate their own everyday experiences to.

I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about.

I'm still undisciplined in the fact that I'm not writing anything down. I just get these lines and start piecing it together and then going back.

Most of the time, comparing printed song lyrics with poems is like comparing recipes with food: that's to say, patently unfair.

In 'Kid A' and 'Amnesiac,' Mr. Yorke's lyrics were often unfathomable, moaned and mumbled and forced beneath the surface of the music. In 'Hail to the Thief,' most but not all of the words can be decoded after a few listens.

There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.