I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm… — Yuna Copy Share Image
When I write, it's like choosing which shoes I'm going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal -… — Bad Bunny Copy Share Image
The music is the same if you go all the way back to the first albums I made or the middle or… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
When you're young and haven't experienced love yet, Taylor's lyrics are so wonderfully heart-breaking and dramatic, so much fun. — Griff Copy Share Image
Lil Wayne was a big inspiration. Started listening to him like 6 years old. His lyrics are crazy, his wordplay and how… — NLE Choppa Copy Share Image
I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I usually get my lyrics when I let my mind wander, when you're not really awake, but not yet fully asleep. I… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
Sometimes you might get inspired by something, write about it, then later that lyrics sounds better on another beat. That's happened a… — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
With lyrics for me, it's usually musically-based. It's not really poetry- or writer-based. It's rock-based. It doesn't mean that I'm aping rock… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Listening to music and lyrics and watching movies, I think, uses a lot of the same muscles we use in reading and… — Tracy K. Smith 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 started listening to The-Dream a lot. That's when I really got into writing songs. I like the way he put lyrics… — Bryson Tiller 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
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
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
A song is composed of music and lyrics: 50 percent is the producer, 50 percent is the artist. So, I'm responsible for… — Gza Copy Share Image
With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album. — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Writing songs and lyrics is not that different from doing the 'Times' crossword every morning. They both give you a good mental… — Leslie Bricusse Copy Share Image
James Brown really taught me a lot - his lyrics and his performance and whatever he does when he's onstage. I'll always… — Charles Bradley Copy Share Image
All musicians should write poetry or at least read it if they want to improve their game. Except for people who believe… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I started writing lyrics to clash with other people in the playground. Now I've developed my own voice and my own style.… — Kano Copy Share Image
Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my… — Andrew VanWyngarden Copy Share Image
'Mama I'm Coming Home' is one song that I think is incredible. One of his best songs ever written. Lemmy wrote the… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
“Frankly, I don't feel the fire anymore from the youth. I miss my era when motherfuckers were fighting for shit, spitting fire… — Ice-T Copy Share Image
The truth is what I plan to find And I am getting closer every single day But from this world Im drifting… — Andrew Neil Maternick Copy Share Image
A lot of my philosophies came from sheet music. 'Some Day My Prince Will Come,' or 'Blue Skies Smiling at Me' -… — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
“Don't care what people say Just follow your own way Don't give up and use the chance To return to innocence. That's… — Enigma 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
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
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
I love a great melody and wonderful lyrics that speak from the heart, and my music has that and speaks about it;… — Kaskade Copy Share Image
But I wanted the karaoke-style lyrics in our music videos for two reasons: first, cause nobody has lyric booklets anymore, and when… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
“Life is the bad with all the good. The deadly sharks with the beautiful sea stars. The gigantic waves with the sand… — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
I always wrote everything - I wrote all the lyrics, I wrote all the melodies, everything; it's just somebody else sung it.… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
Why do I keep running from the truth? All I ever think about is you, You got me hypnotized, So mesmerized, And… — David Archuleta Copy Share Image
The great thing was that both K-Ci and JoJo told me to not make an R&B track that was reminiscent of radio… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
“I'd like to hold you in the mountains, like to kiss you by the sea. Take you far, far from here to… — Courtney C. Stevens Copy Share Image
“Sweet Grace amazes me The way that she can see Beyond the man I am To the man that I could be… — Jason Gray Copy Share Image
“Being older, I began to understand the lyrics. At the beginning, it sounds like a guy is trying to get his girlfriend… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
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