Colorful Quote by Chris Cornell

I have a certain amount of creative energy, and it used to go painting. Now most of it goes to music. I like to…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

In some ways, writing music is an art because so much of it is instinctive and sort of below consciousness, and lyric writing is…

— Stephen Schwartz

People say, "You should write lyrics" and I say I'm quite happy not to, because I like being part of that process where you…

— Elton John

Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first…

— Bjork

I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.

— King Krule

My lyrical content is all about entertainment.

— Badshah

When I start a song, I have an image and a story. In many ways, it's more like painting than making music.

— Goldie

Making music, creating lyrics comes very naturally to me.

— Junaid Jamshed

I really love being an artist, but I make my money from songwriting.

— MNEK

I write lyrics. putting words and melodies to my songs. That's a real challenge, I take it on vigorously.

— Gord Downie

I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.

— Cass McCombs

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.

— Tom Araya