Quotes About Music

I've found lyrics in songs that always center me.

Sometimes, I feel like my lyrics meander a little bit, and our songs are so big I need to write more words than are necessary.

I'm more honest in my lyrics than I am in anything else. It's where I feel the most safe to express myself.

Being able to play all over the world to different audiences and have them sing my lyrics back to me, even if they can't speak the same language, is crazy.

I have a thing about inane lyrics - the world doesn't need them.

Songs, especially lyrics, have always been really important to me.

All of our lyrics are really personal, and we get a lot of personal letters.

'Used To' is one of my favorite records because of its confident, 'in-your-face' lyrics.

Cacie Dalager's voice is beautiful, and her lyrics break my heart.

I like to write lyrics when I feel it, and because of that, I like to keep a log of lyrics all the time.

I get my inspiration for my songs and the lyrics from experiences in my life, but I'm also very inspired by the Beatles and Cyndi Lauper, as I really like their music.

What I really like to do with my music is these concept stories, and I always like to have some life philosophies in the lyrics.

I sometimes never really realize what lyrics are saying.

All musicians should write poetry or at least read it if they want to improve their game. Except for people who believe lyrics don't matter.

When you write really good lyrics - and sometimes I did! - they are just a joy to sing.

If you write your own lyrics now, and those are the main focus in the EP... people tend to approach it as Americana, which is wild. That's what leads people to it. But it's just whatever people want; as long as they like the music.

I've always loved lyrics, so I used to listen to Sara Bareilles - more folky, singer-songwritery people.

I only like songs with strong lyrics.

In some ways, the more that I write songs, the more I feel that telling a story is the most important thing; just being able to close your eyes when you hear some lyrics and go somewhere.

Sometimes you might get inspired by something, write about it, then later that lyrics sounds better on another beat. That's happened a few times. Like 'Dance Wiv Me' - those lyrics didn't start on that beat.

The music is the same if you go all the way back to the first albums I made or the middle or whatever. The thing that's different is the lyrics.

If I don't write a song, I only record it when it's played for me for the first time and I connect to it, am empowered by it, and have a deep connection to the lyrics.

Probably as young as 10 I would take songs and just change the lyrics.

So what comes naturally to me is writing lyrics and writing songs and telling stories.