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
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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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
I got involved, for the most part, in the actual song construction, lyrics even. I didn't want to write the lyrics, but… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
It's the way I make music, I will take two ideas and smash them together and if they sit well together for… — Thighpaulsandra Copy Share Image
I am a big Brian Eno fan - the first few Brian Eno records are just absolute gibberish and he came up… — Jay Watson Copy Share Image
At first, I was using my sister Susan's lyrics, as I could not write myself, only the music. And then one day,… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
I am very into lyrics. I start with what the words are saying, what the storyline is saying, like a good script.… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
One night, I remember being really sick in bed with chills and a fever when Ann came in all excited and said,… — Nancy Wilson 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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 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
“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
Composers now just don't have the depth of inspiration for melody. Most of the lyrics of the pop songs you hear today… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
If your girlfriend has Taylor Swift lyrics as her status you're either doing something very right, or very wrong. — Farahjayne809 Copy Share Image
I am just very unapologetically myself. I don't think I know how to not be honest. I have to tell the whole… — Carly Pearce Copy Share Image
I feel like there's a lot of albums that are like 'woo! we're young, let's have fun' and there's a lot of… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
“The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
'Endless Love' is such a perfect love song for a wedding or for a Valentine, because that is the committed kind of… — Delilah Copy Share Image
“Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
I sing. I used to think singing is going to be the route, and I still sing to this day. I still… — Kylie Bunbury Copy Share Image
I have dyslexia, and I never did learn to read music, and I even had a problem in reading because everything was… — Andrae Crouch Copy Share Image
When there are no lyrics, people can picture what they want. It's a reflection of where they are in their lives. Music… — Hiromi Uehara Copy Share Image
“God, I want to dream again, take me where I've never been! I want to go there, this time I'm not scared!… — Fireflight Copy Share Image
