Beat Quote by Brendon Urie

The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.

— David Gilmour

If the lyrics have meaning to it and it gives me a certain emotion, I think that's the most beautiful part about music -…

— Sarah Barthel

I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.

— Neil Farber

As well as having a really strong message, sometimes an artist needs to couple their sentiment with something that's soulful and groovy to listen…

— Gregory Porter

I really like when the lyrics in the music have an interesting relationship between one another - where they contrast each other.

— Caroline Polachek

I think all the best songs do that: they offer some sort of hope and light in the darkness.

— Jens Lekman

Sometimes my lyrics are about things that are, well, not the brightest, but I have been working with this outlook for such a long…

— Karin Dreijer Andersson

Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment –…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

It's important to me to create archetypes of human experiences and make them so that the song has a sense of purpose when you…

— Weyes Blood

There are so many different things that lend themselves to what makes a song magical, that go beyond just the lyrics or the composition.…

— Michelle Zauner

A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

— Gordon Waller

There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just…

— Eyvind Kang