I started writing lyrics out of desperation. I was broke and wondering where my next job, my next meal was coming from,… — Sheldon Harnick Copy Share Image
In India we are creating mainstream hip hop music, than what real rap music is. The lyrics aren't that personal, since most… — Badshah Copy Share Image
A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to… — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
“A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
I would want to know if they are Christian. When I read somebody's lyrics and they connect with my faith, are they… — Lacey Sturm Copy Share Image
“The lyrics and the rhythms of the stars and galaxies are in the 114 chakras in your body. You just need to… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Being able to play all over the world to different audiences and have them sing my lyrics back to me, even if… — Tash Sultana Copy Share Image
Typically, when I am creating individual songs, I like to listen to beats, feel the vibe and create off of that. I… — Koffee Copy Share Image
I've always felt like my music would stand for itself and I would stand for myself. So I've kept my music a… — Kenna Copy Share Image
Sometimes my lyrics are about things that are, well, not the brightest, but I have been working with this outlook for such… — Karin Dreijer Andersson Copy Share Image
In hip-hop, sometimes that pace is so fast that you miss things. I don't mean literally miss lyrics; I just think there's… — Barry Jenkins Copy Share Image
For me, music always leads. Lyrics are only about how they sing. It is wonderful if they read well, too. In the… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
It's so funny because if you tweet your lyrics and then you hear it in a song next week, you're like, 'Hey… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
First we start with the lyrics. Most of the lyrics are done by Stefan Kaufmann and me. When we have enough lyrics… — Udo Dirkschneider Copy Share Image
Everything I do, I do it because it's me. At the end of the day, I only know how to be me.… — Bow Wow Copy Share Image
I won't be the kind of artist speaking in riddles all the time - it will be lyrics that make sense the… — Rex Orange County Copy Share Image
The great thing about Metallica's music and the lyrics, it's always going to be hopefully a motivating experience. — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
I'm proud of the younger Roland. Very proud of some of the lyrics. They stand up today. I'm cool with it, though… — Roland Orzabal Copy Share Image
I am always getting ideas for song lyrics and keep a notebook handy. Nowadays, I take a laptop with me everywhere, because… — Kou Shibasaki Copy Share Image
With Bernstein, because we wound up always working music first, it was where I really feel I learned how to write lyrics… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
A hard time if your motion is still let me move some things around because the lyrics is illl Abstract..you know my… — Q-tip 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
“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
