Lyrics Quotes · Page 12

I don't have trouble being brutally honest with my lyrics.

— Griff

Sometimes it feels like the lyrics to a song you're listening to, were written just for you

— Melchor Lim

I want to make an album with just great beats and big vocals and just amazing lyrics.

— Tessanne Chin

Run baby run, don't ever look back. they'll tear us apart if you give them the chance

— We The Kings

And the company you keep, well they plan your crucifixion as we speak.

— The Killers

Lyrics are no more important than the music. There's no point in forcing them on people.

— Elizabeth Fraser

When someone ask you to listen to a song, it's because the lyrics means everything they're trying to say.

— Anonymous

“We don't want to give people straight answers. We'd rather they question things for themselves.”

— Deborah Curtis

I can't do one thing at a time. If I'm writing song lyrics, I've got to be doing the ironing or cooking…

— Ian Gillan

I can't be bothered to learn Final Draft. I'm not a technical person. Like, when I sing, I just want to sing…

— Sia

I don't have a set working style. Some lyrics come really slow, others come in 10 minutes while I'm watching basketball. They're…

— Travis Morrison

The way we write our solo songs is that we take the emotions that we feel and put them in the lyrics.…

— Kim Tae-hyung

[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea…

— Billy Bob Thornton

With lyrics, I go into a place where I try to hear what the song is about. I have to learn. The…

— Lacey Sturm

I think the simple message of that song is what attracted me to 'Every Day.' It's one of those simple yet profound…

— Jay DeMarcus

It took me a little while to get sorrow under the belt enough to understand country music's lyrics and strengths.

— Shooter Jennings

“I'm also a book nerd so aside from my life and my opinions, you could say my lyrics are inspired in some…

— Dominic Owen Mallary

“I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, mothers that drowned their own children, Cadillacs…

— Bob Dylan

“I believe the stars are the headlights of angels driving from heaven to save us to save us...Won't you look at the…

— David Berman

My dad's Nigerian, and I remember going to Nigeria, and all of these kids and adults and everyone in-between knew who TuPac…

— Annie Ilonzeh

“You can dance. You can make me laugh. You've got x-ray eyes. You know how to sing. You're a diplomat. You've got…

— Laurie Anderson

“Being older, I began to understand the lyrics. At the beginning, it sounds like a guy is trying to get his girlfriend…

— Suzanne Collins

I first came across Langhorne Slim when I saw him play live, and he's an incredibly infectious performer. The way he works…

— Johnny Flynn

I think, then, there's the sort of, like, political dimension to lyrics. One of the problems that I've had with my output…

— J. Robbins

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

— Natalie Merchant

People have no discrepancy for me or my lyrics or the song.

— Jadakiss

All of our lyrics are really personal, and we get a lot of personal letters.

— Benji Madden

“Read the lyrics to N. Young's Harvest Moon and you'll know.”

— Anonymous

I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.

— Nick Cave

MCs are authors, and rock musicians who write lyrics are authors, to a degree.

— Aesop Rock

I also want to sing the lyrics penned by poets like Srijato.

— Jeet Gannguli

We perform better when the lyrics mean something to us when we sing them.

— Perrie Edwards

Within Klaxons, I never wrote the lyrics. I always wrote the melody and music with the other guys.

— James Righton

I'm glad that the lyrics reach people and make them understand that we're all the same, really.

— Phil Collins

Sometimes people mishear my lyrics and think a song's about something it isn't.

— Kate Bush

I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

— Jack Kerouac

You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.

— Kurt Elling

When I ask you to listen to a song, it's because the lyrics mean everything I'm trying to say to you.

— Anonymous

I first write melodies that will make people shiver, and then, I add the lyrics.

— Nicky Jam

I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.

— Sam Hunt