I remember when I was very young, I read an article by Fats Domino which has really influenced me. He said, 'You… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
My brother came home from college with a Mountain Goats cassette and I was like, 'What is this?' The lyrics were crazy… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
'Chandelier' took, like, four minutes to write the chords, then, like, 12-15 minutes to write the lyrics. Probably 10 or 15 minutes… — Sia Copy Share Image
I put out a lot of ideas in the lyrics and the way I do my things. There's a lot of ideas… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
What I really like to do with my music is these concept stories, and I always like to have some life philosophies… — King Diamond Copy Share Image
“You held me down, but I got up Hey! Alrighty brushing off the dust You hear my voice You hear that sound… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
Just talking about the schedule and logistics of a tour is fine, but if the interview gets into lyrics and the music… — Michael Penn Copy Share Image
I've always loved melody and pop hooks, slightly left of centre but I have always tried to balance it with songs that… — James Righton Copy Share Image
“Elliott was disarmingly bright, according to everyone who knew him, an avid reader of Dostoevsky, Kafka, Beckett, Stendhal, Freud, the Buddha, all… — William Todd Schultz Copy Share Image
The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
I'm not a 'real rapper'; I just like to talk about what I've been through. When I was younger, I just said… — Metta World Peace Copy Share Image
“She once said her songs were "mostly about myths, spirits, that kind of thing. Not fairies, stronger than that." Not fairies. Stronger… — Graeme Thomson Copy Share Image
I think it's hilarious that you would give an endorsement deal to someone who you've heard their lyrics a million times and… — Lamorne Morris Copy Share Image
I write my own lyrics completely on my own. Sometimes I have people helping me with concepts or like choruses and stuff… — Big Sean Copy Share Image
When I sit down and try to write lyrics first - I've definitely done that in the past - but most of… — Ty Segall Copy Share Image
I had a general burnout: I got extremely tired; I couldn't do anything anymore. I canceled tours; I cancelled everything in my… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
I just remember certain things really well. I know my schedule, my husband's schedule and my parents' schedule. I also have a… — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
I sing 'All Apologies' with my own lyrics. People want to sing along, but then, oops, they realize it's a different story. — Nina Hagen Copy Share Image
“Your lyrics lack subtlety! You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!” — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
I want to bring that old soul back, the meaningful lyrics and all of that. And I can't think of a better… — La'Porsha Renae Copy Share Image
I like Patti Smith's lyrics, and sometimes think I could be influenced by them. But she has a kind of cool that's… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Trying to write my first song ever, working on the lyrics right now Dedicated to all the girls who've ever self harmed.… — Blue Eyes Copy Share Image
I realised the thing I was best at in music was toplining - coming up with melodies, lyrics, hooks, arrangements, structure; the… — CMAT Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid, when I pick up my guitar it's been hard for me to write some sort of bubblegum… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
Rhythm is a dancer, I need a companion Girl I guess that must be you Body like the summer, fucking like no… — Lyrics Copy Share Image
I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the… — Kelela Copy Share Image
I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not… — Avicii Copy Share Image
Say they want real? So I'm a give em chills/ Somethin so real, somethin they could feel/ Say they want real? Say… — Tactics Copy Share Image
Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
“I bought the Heartbreak Hotel, on my own with no investors. Closed it down and opened the Fuck You, Get Over It… — Scroobius Pip Copy Share Image
You can be very efficient with lyrics, and you can get the heart fluttering or soaring or make someone cry with a… — Kylie Minogue Copy Share Image
If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around,… — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
“You ask me why I don't speak Not a word at will But write so much worth well over a mill' Well… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I love Pink and Nelly Furtado - the honesty and truth in their lyrics. I also love Kendrick Lamar and Chance the… — Dua Lipa Copy Share Image
I really hate when I do a great song with great lyrics but my voice just don't fit because of the type… — Rico Nasty Copy Share Image
I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love… — Arca Copy Share Image
I always had a passion for writing, but I always visualized other artist singing my lyrics, I never visualized myself. — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
“The guitar poured out its soul, its history, its dreams, its pain, its victories, its secrets. The guitar’s strings purred with blues… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
