Being true Quote by Alison Krauss

When I write a song, I get the melody right first, and then hopefully I can back it up with a lyric that has…

— Craig David

I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the phrasing and…

— Kelela

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

— Barry Mann

My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.

— Craig Finn

Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the two.

— Lee Ranaldo

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have…

— Boris Pasternak

In a song, you have to have a lyric that gives us new ideas on how to live, a lyric that makes us feel,…

— Jennifer Warnes

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the…

— James Taylor

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

— Vanessa Paradis

If I'm writing the music, and I don't feel like its really connecting inside, then I'll know there's no reason to really put a…

— Beth Hart

I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.

— Freddie Mercury

I turn the music louder so I won't hear my thoughts but its stupid because the lyric remind me of what I'm trying to…

— Crystal