Lyrics Quotes
698 Lyrics quotes by 496 unique authors
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I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
— Natalie Merchant
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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
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The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.
— Stephen Malkmus
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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
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Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.
— Bernie Taupin
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I want to touch people's lives with my music and my lyrics.
— Romeo Santos
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I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.
— Obie Trice
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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
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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
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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
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I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.
— Patti LaBelle
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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
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In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.
— Robert Lanza
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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
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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
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I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.
— Ian MacKaye
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Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.
— Neil Diamond
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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
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My way of communicating with God as a boy (and often even now) was through the lyrics of a song. . . . So I…
— Johnny Cash
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.
— Michael Azerrad
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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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