Lyrics Quotes

698 Lyrics quotes by 496 unique authors

I was a geek who thought I was cool. I didn't hang out with a particular clique, but with different people from different cliques. I… — Chester Bennington
All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe light love, lost… — Lorrie Moore
There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult. — Alex Turner
After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what… — Frank Rich
I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do - all I can say… — Barry White
But I don't like working on lyrics publicly in the studio - I prefer to take them away and work on them in my bedroom. — Sophie Ellis Bextor
My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying… — Sean Paul
There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's something you feel… — Roy Haynes
When I write, it is always the melody that comes first, and it just happens to be the case that the most beautiful tunes are… — Francoise Hardy
Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their… — Unknown Author
I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I… — Gavin Rossdale
Songs, and songwriting keeps me inspired, moving forward. I tend to scribble down notes, lyrics or just random thoughts on pieces of paper, backs of… — John Waite
I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the… — Jay McShann
Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of… — Carol Muske-Dukes
For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles. — Jim Capaldi
A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics. — Will Champion
For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings… — Utada Hikaru
The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their… — Utada Hikaru
The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody. — Utada Hikaru
A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on. — Gordon Waller
An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go over in our… — Boyd K. Packer
Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves. — Barry Mann
I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead — John Frusciante
To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was… — Bruce McCulloch
I think it need realness, you should speak on thing that you know about, that you being from, that you experienced or that you been… — Obie Trice

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