Lyrics Quotes

698 Lyrics quotes by 496 unique authors

With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through… — Serj Tankian
I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when… — Eddie Vedder
I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex… — Florence Welch
It's such a rush doing a concert and seeing people actually mouthing the lyrics. — Carnie Wilson
I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if… — Thom Yorke
Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent… — Michael Eric Dyson
Folk music usually has an emphasis on the lyrics and melody. And those lyrics are usually relevant in some way. And it's populist in scope,… — Greg Graffin
maybe memories are like karaoke-where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at… — Douglas Coupland
The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with… — Rob Sheffield
Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song?… — Ellen DeGeneres
I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around. — Louise Bogan
What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare)… — Aldous Huxley
If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale. — Nicholas Sparks
There are beautiful sounds in rock. Very lazy, dreamlike noises. You can forget about the lyrics in most songs. Just dig the noise, and you've… — Andy Warhol
There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose. — Garth Stein
Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to. — Scott Westerfeld
He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections in the black… — Arthur Phillips
When she awoke there was a melody in her head she could not identify or recall ever hearing before. 'Perhaps I made it up,' she… — Toni Morrison
Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. — Hans Christian Andersen
We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Remind me again what's wrong with Dave Matthews?" "Basically everything, except technical proficiency," Walter said. "Right." "But maybe especially the banality of the lyrics. 'Gotta… — Jonathan Franzen
Even at the time, I realised this couldn't be right, that this interpretation didn't fit with the rest of the lyrics. But that wasn't an… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Other memories stick, no matter how much you wish they wouldn’t. They’re like a song you hate but can’t ever get completely out of your… — Sara Zarr
If you really want me to be safe, maybe it's time." "I'd just feel safer if you'd start sleeping in a coffin." Just then my… — Ellen Schreiber

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