The popular songs that were written in the 1920s and '30s, '40s and early '50s were written by veterans - mostly men… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
“But it's easier to say 'I love you', than 'Yours, sincerely' I suppose.” — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I have a card catalogue in my brain of every lyric of every sappy love song ever written. — Delilah Copy Share Image
“Show them what you’re made of Your endless nights deserve a loud ovation Shine bright and prove them wrong ‘Cause we can… — Stray Kids Copy Share Image
Lyric helps invoke the core person. And, without lyric, it is difficult to touch the core. Lyrical music is the music of… — Dayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
A lot of times when I'm performing a song, it tends to take me back to where I was psychologically as the… — Myles Kennedy Copy Share Image
I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up… — Jim Capaldi Copy Share Image
In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of. — Jimmy Carl Black Copy Share Image
Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the… — Burning Spear Copy Share Image
Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom… — Imogen Heap Copy Share Image
“So you take her to the pictures, trying to become a fixture. Inch by inch trying to reach her, all the way… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
I try and journal every day, and that's where a lot of my lyric comes from. — Jessie Baylin Copy Share Image
Hank Williams seemed, like, so total to me, so committed to the lyric. He would actually rip the ends of the words… — Dion DiMucci Copy Share Image
My introduction of Whitney was that if there's going to be one performer for the next generation who combined the beauty and… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone… — Bart Chilton Copy Share Image
I'm very careful about each lyric now. It can't just be a throwaway. And if it is, then we scrap it. — Lola Young Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll be driving and a lyric will come into my head, and I will have to pull over and record it… — Lil' Kim Copy Share Image
It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an… — Lorde Copy Share Image
Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling. — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
