Lyrics Quotes

698 Lyrics quotes by 496 unique authors

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics. — Natalie Merchant
If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics. — Stephen Malkmus
The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative. — Stephen Malkmus
Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing. — Cat Power
Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets. — Bernie Taupin
I want to touch people's lives with my music and my lyrics. — Romeo Santos
I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics. — Obie Trice
But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya… — Alan Vega
That's something - you laugh about Eminem... It's funny, man, because I didn't like him when he first came out, ya know. It seemed like… — Alan Vega
As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you… — K D Lang
I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry. — Patti LaBelle
When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling. — Ray LaMontagne
In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics. — Robert Lanza
People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements.… — Don McLean
In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say. — Giorgio Moroder
I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that. — Ian MacKaye
Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics. — Neil Diamond
See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys. — Mel Torme
My way of communicating with God as a boy (and often even now) was through the lyrics of a song. . . . So I… — Johnny Cash
I'd much rather talk about guitar playing. I hate it when people ask me about my lyrics. I always feel like telling them to just… — James Hetfield
I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct… — Greil Marcus
I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of… — Ronnie Milsap
There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in… — Cheryl James
I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies. — Michael Azerrad
I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always… — Natasha Bedingfield

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