For me, lyrics are the most important thing in a song. And if they don't have meaning, I would never sing them… — Atif Aslam Copy Share Image
Having a very serious thematic element in the lyrics and then juxtaposing with something really triumphant and just a big beat to… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
A good song has to have a great melody, and the lyrics have to touch my heart. Now, if it's just a… — Reba McEntire Copy Share Image
Music is for making people happy, lyrics tell them who they are. Everybody is free to interpret the music, as they want.… — Gustav Ejstes Copy Share Image
I'm writing a musical. I am. I was able to buy the rights to 'The Preacher's Wife,' which starred Whitney Houston... I'm… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
“In starlit nights I saw you, So cruelly you kissed me. Your lips a magic world, Your sky all hung with jewels.… — Echo and the Bunnymen Copy Share Image
You do know about us in the type of music and the lyrics and their sensibility. Through that you do know something… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
I want to say my life inspires my lyrics, but I also try to abstract them as much as possible because I… — Grimes Copy Share Image
People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about being in a band is that you depend on each other for ideas, so it's not… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
Ventilation, thoughts on a page/ what's the indication? I'm lost in a rage/ Caught in the hate, grippin mics til my grave… — Tactics Copy Share Image
I don't really listen to the radio anymore, but some of the more contemporary people I like are Stereolab, Spiritualize, Yo La… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
As far as the lyrics go, I think I was negotiating a moment in my life where I didn't feel happy. I… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
“Cut off from the land that bore us, Betrayed by the land we find, Where the brightest have gone before us, And… — Capt. Bartholomew Dowling Copy Share Image
I like the jarring thing, both in the music and the lyrics. That's why a lot of times our songs have a… — Ron Mael Copy Share Image
You and I ain't in the same league/ I keep on goin while you deal with fatigue/ A lil mix of underground… — Tactics Copy Share Image
On 'Love Letters', I focused exclusively on songs with lyrics, creating a collection of songs that directly address heartbreak and its ensuing… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think Sia is a pretty good reference for me because her way of 'singing and the way she composes the melodies… — Saara Aalto Copy Share Image
Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Baby I just ran out of band-aids. I dont even know where to start...cause you can bandage the damage, you never really… — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
Ultimately, Cole Porter's music might say more about his life than any biography could. His songs, with their witty lyrics and debonair… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
No matter how many quotes, song lyrics, or however much you write your heart out; Sometimes words just can't describe how you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My most revered hero is Robert Johnson. His lyrics are so consistent with rap: the danger, the boldness, the creativity. — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the… — Mike Gordon Copy Share Image
While I'm grateful for the freedom to express one's self, I've learned there are limits to what language is appropriate and I'm… — Psy Copy Share Image
“While you’re singing something romantic, I can’t get the lyrics to ‘Love and Marriage’ out of my head, and that tune always… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
The lyrics to me are a result of the emotional and creative climate present while making the record as well as personally… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
“They live, we sleep, we starve, they eat. You must comply with their deceit, don't trust the wolves to guard the sheep.… — Trevor D. Richardson Copy Share Image
“Unhappiness where's when I was young, And we didn't give a damn, 'Cause we were raised, To see life as fun and… — Dolores O'Riordan Copy Share Image
I change lyrics to the songs all the time, too. I don't know if it matters in a lot of ways because… — Matt Corby Copy Share Image
The lyrics tend to fascinate people, but for me, when I listen to a record I don't always latch on to the… — Elizabeth Fraser Copy Share Image
When you hear my lyrics, you hear the shots that I throw at people. I throw shots because I always been the… — Cardi B Copy Share Image
With his compulsively slamming lyrics and king-of-the-world delivery, DMX intuitively echoes the existentialism of the projects of the novelist Donald Goines. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
'Despacito' started with a melody hook that I had with my guitar only. The beat for this track came after I wrote… — Luis Fonsi Copy Share Image
I'm overboard, &'nd I need your love. Pull me up, I can't swim on my own. It's too much, Feels like I'm… — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to sit there and study lyrics the whole time, driving back from work when they just got their check after… — O. T. Genasis Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I write the lyrics based on what is going on in my life - I'm not going to write about the old… — Oliver Sykes Copy Share Image
Cut the crap. Just don't try to be anything that you aren't, have ambition but when it comes to lyrics especially just… — Max Bemis Copy Share Image
