Quotes About Lyrics

I always take notes on my phone of lyric ideas.

2021, I am noticing, I am doing a lot of romantic songs which are going to be nice and special.

With his compulsively slamming lyrics and king-of-the-world delivery, DMX intuitively echoes the existentialism of the projects of the novelist Donald Goines.

To put it in a nutshell, I'm known for basically killin' the rhymes, you know what I'm sayin,' goin' for it.

Oasis allowed me to use lyrics from 'Wonderwall,' so I'm super gassed to re-version the track and get it to a new audience, as it's a classic.

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.

I love so many songs from the '80s, but I'm obliged to the big ones.

I always laugh at these rock n'rollers where you can't understand them. Mind you, it's not because they're inaudible or indistinguishable; it's because they're too obscure.

I was a very observant child. Almost anything could become a song to me.

If you observe, all classic love songs have a tinge of melancholy that comes naturally with the composition.

I have this guitar on which I occasionally kill time making up rock n' roll lyrics.

When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience.

Nulla è eterno, Balbulus. E che cosa c'è di meglio, per le parole, che essere cantate in giro? Sì, certo, ogni volta mutano, hanno una melodia diversa. Ma non è questo il bello?

We'd buy brochures of Dylan lyrics and stay up late interpreting them. Dylan's words struck chords of creative thinking.

Happiness is a sad song.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

That's the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song

Country music is three chords and the truth.

her eyes downcast all the while/ and singing to herself

To learn a belief without belief is to sing a song without the tune.

Good mornin', blues, blues how do you do?Good mornin', blues, blues how do you do?I'm doin' all right, good mornin', how are you?

The only thing that made the music different was that we were taking lyrics to places they had never been before. The thing that makes art interesting is when an artist has incredible pain or incredible rage. The New York bands were much more into their pain, while the English bands were much more into their rage. The Sex Pistols' songs were written out of anger, wheras Johnny was writing songs because he was brokenhearted over Sable...

But lyrics are not proof; photographs are.

I've always thought there was this underlying thing in Paul's "Get Back." When we were in the studio recording it, every time he sang the line "Get back to where you once belonged," he'd look at Yoko.