Lyrics Quotes · Page 15

Posting lyrics on your status hoping that one person will read them and take the hint...

— Anonymous

Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.

— Beth Gibbons

“If the music is amazing, you can get away with anything.”

— Brian Logan Dales

It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out.

— Sia

I would love to write a song that's exciting, bright, and has a fresh melody and lyrics.

— Jeongyeon

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

— Kirstin Maldonado

“I traced the cord back to the wall, no wonder it was never plugged in at all.”

— Blink 182

The most common time I write lyrics is the middle of the night.

— Alissa White-Gluz

When people hear sing-songy melodies, they think the lyrics will be nice, too. I guess there's a depressing or psychotic side to…

— Kim Shattuck

The craziest part of being on tour is being overseas and having crazed fans so far away from home. They don't speak…

— Tinashe

Our music may sound big emotionally, but that's more to do with the playing, the level of musicianship and the full-on energy.…

— Win Butler

There's the drums, the music, the melodies, the lyrics, the production, the artwork: there are so many elements to making an album,…

— Mike Portnoy

I'm so done with these hoes bro/ Done with the scum tryna get it for the low low/ Done bein broke empty…

— Tactics

I've read and heard that some of the most inspiring vocal interpreters adhere habitually to one rule: Always think the lyrics as…

— Brandi Carlile

I say funny stuff in my lyrics to make people laugh, but it's all in the seriousness of the music. I'm just…

— Rich Brian

There was a time when I was never really sure If I was ever gonna find that perfect girl But then came…

— Icarus Account

In music, there seems to be a myth that being authentic and genuine has to be confessional, and we think what Sparks…

— Russell Mael

You can go to places in Africa and Asia and find Marley graffiti. In the slums of Nairobi, you see his lyrics…

— Kevin Macdonald

I think, there are a couple of songs. I'm really proud of How far I'll Go. I literally locked myself up in…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

You don't need this prep but I'm going to give it to you anyway. I can tell, I don't know any of…

— Tegan Quin Live @ Cain's Ballroom 9 11 10

I think honest lyrics help somebody say, 'I was struggling with this, but if Jon goes through that, too, and if Jon's…

— Jon Bellion

I started to get turned on to a bunch of different bands when I was in middle school/high school. I was turned…

— John Petrucci

[Opetaia Foa'i] brought in the melody and the lyrics, but the lyrics were in Tokelauan, and so, we talked about what it…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I remember writing lyrics for 'Take Me to Church' for a long time before I even had a song in mind for.…

— Hozier

I want people to hear my lyrics and my melodies and say, 'That dude's in pain.'

— Ivan Moody

“In my imagination you're waiting lying on your side with your hands between your thighs.”

— Arctic Monkeys

I think it's quite hard to write songs about being happy; it's easier to pour your misery into your lyrics.

— Ellie Rowsell

I would love to collaborate with Chance the Rapper. I love his lyrics and his sound and everything.

— Daya

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.

— Ezra Koenig

In my opinion, lyrics are a paramount factor and will always be.

— Amaal Mallik

And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.

— Utada Hikaru

I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

— Dan Bejar

Sometimes when you listen to the lyrics of a song it feels like they were written just for you.

— James Merrow

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

— Jimi Hendrix

I always start with writing vocal melodies before writing lyrics.

— Sigrid

No matter how many song lyrics or quotes you write down; none of them can actually describe what your feeling.

— Anonymous

“All of my words, if not well put or well taken, are well meant.”

— Woody Guthrie

People don't stress enough that when they're writing lyrics, they are writing.

— Aesop Rock

Sometimes I like to write the lyrics while I'm on the road, because then you get even more melancholy.

— MO

When your happy you enjoy music but when your sad, you understand the lyrics

— Levita Charin