I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense. — Teddy Thompson Copy Share Image
When I sing a tune, the lyrics are important to me. Most of the standard lyrics I know well. And as soon… — Sarah Vaughan Copy Share Image
I let the music set the tone of the lyrics.I allowed myself to write more about relationships and emotions, in a girly… — Jose Gonzalez Copy Share Image
My band, Miles Long, is a jazz-funk spoken word band. There's jazz sensibilities, but I'm a bass player, so I'm very much… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I get my inspiration for my songs and the lyrics from experiences in my life, but I'm also very inspired by the… — Kim Petras Copy Share Image
When I think about the lyrics to 'The Wizard,' some people could probably feel that they're laughable. But they actually meant something… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
There's something about being onstage, singing my lyrics to somebody and them either listening and receiving them, or singing them back to… — Cassadee Pope Copy Share Image
When I published my first novel, 'Slammed,' I included lyrics at the beginning of each chapter from one of my favorite bands,… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
My heart is a weatherballoon caught in an updraft of a chinese tax percentage, the tax percentages are unequivocaaaaaaaaaal, Unequivocaaaaaaaaal. This is… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
So, some of the most difficult formal poems that I've written, say one sentence sonnets, I've been able to do those fairly… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
With 'Someone New', I was at my rawest, and I didn't want to cover it up. And same with 'You Should Know'… — Banks Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily feel 100 per cent comfortable standing up on stage in front of lots of people, but I don't think… — Dan Smith Copy Share Image
You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it...I always believed that I have something important to say… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
My songs used to be significantly more bizarre. I used to play a big electric piano and a loop pedal. I was… — Dan Smith Copy Share Image
Check my swag, I'm soO flyO I know you cannot test me cause imma swaggerly blind you; though you wanna test but… — Ama Boy Copy Share Image
A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
I missed being onstage behind the microphone. After a while, it was hard to hear another voice singing my lyrics. — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
The songs that are on my playlist find themselves there because I can identify with the lyrics, or they have some magical… — Hilary Knight Copy Share Image
Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realise that. — Billie Eilish Copy Share Image
I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I can get up and face the day just fine all by myself, get out and take one the world like nobody… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
I have a fondness for words. On that note, I don't consider my lyrics to be all that great. I like to… — Anoop Menon Copy Share Image
Like, Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD, just because of my age… — Young Thug Copy Share Image
I do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal. — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
“Trudy Bennett, I love you beyond any lyrics I could ever write, or any words I could ever say. I always have,… — Samantha Towle Copy Share Image
If I was your man (Baby you) Never worry 'bout (What I do) I'd be coming home (Back to you) (Every night,… — Mario Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time,… — Beck Copy Share Image
“If you listen to my words you'll understand how I really feel inside...I can't express my feelings to you, but I can… — Matthew Trevitz Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when you swim or sink so I jumped in the drink 'cause I couldn't make myself clear. Maybe… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I am good at composing but I try to write lyrics. I am too bad at that. I am still trying. You… — Harrdy Sandhu Copy Share Image
I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I… — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
Oasis allowed me to use lyrics from 'Wonderwall,' so I'm super gassed to re-version the track and get it to a new… — Bugzy Malone Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I think metal bands don't have too much to say in their lyrics, and never care about it. We just decided… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
When a good thing goes bad its not the ned of the world,its just the end of a world,that you had with… — Drake Copy Share Image
