Quotes About Artistry

For me, whenever I choose a song to sing, it's about the lyric first.

I'm a real stickler for a great lyric, or what I think is a great lyric. It's almost impossible for me to sing a song I don't love. My thing is: If it's a great lyric, you can do anything with the song.

The original 'Don't Let It Get to You' started with a beat. The drums came first. All the musical and lyrical elements were written over those drums.

Howard Ashman was an amazing lyricist and an amazing artist.

I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist.

I think I'm a good lyricist.

Most times, lyrics are the last thing I listen to, being a musician.

MCs are authors, and rock musicians who write lyrics are authors, to a degree.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

The lyrics - everything I sing, I've written.

I'm really big into lyrics in my own songs, so I look up to Drake in that aspect.

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

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.

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

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.

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

I'm not a machine that just comes up with records and can give them away easily.

The reason 'Fireball' is my favorite album of that period is that without 'Fireball,' we would never have been able to make 'Machine Head.'

I'm not a hit machine.

I don't understand why people are going mad about the lyrics I write? Do they expect everyone to become Mirza Ghalib?