Half Quote by Alan Jackson

The lyrics tend to fascinate people, but for me, when I listen to a record I don't always latch on to the lyrics. I…

— Elizabeth Fraser

I wish you'd listen closer to the songs I play. 'Cause the lyrics speak the words I fail to say.

— Anonymous

I wish you'd listen closer to the songs I play because the lyrics speak the words I fail to say.

— Sushan

I wish you'd listen closer to the songs I play. Because the lyrics are the words I fail to say.

— Tumblr

I grew up in the '90s and remember the lyrics back then were so abstract and open to interpretation. That always drove me crazy.

— Jens Lekman

It's a natural tendency of mine to not even listen to lyrics.

— Zach Condon

No matter how many times people try to pick my lyrics apart, nobody will really understand what these songs truly mean to me because…

— Bert McCracken

I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.

— Babatunde Adebimpe

I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most…

— Alan Jackson

For the first 12 years of recording I would finish the album, then on the day it came out I'd never hear the songs again.

— David Berman

A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.

— Lenny Kravitz

Few things anger me more than having a song stuck in my head that I don't know the lyrics to.

— Anonymous