Driven Quote by Conor Oberst

I am used to making people upset and uncomfortable with my lyrical content when it comes to music.

— JPEGMAFIA

I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.

— Mandy Patinkin

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.

— Anais Nin

I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.

— Maynard James Keenan

When I make my socially conscious songs, I go hard with the lyrical content; I go hard with the imagery.

— Raheem DeVaughn

I don't hate any sort of music but I just think that the lyricism needs to be in the forefront.

— Joell Ortiz

Music is about your feelings.

— Alex Scally

I'd rather not get into what I'm talking about lyrically. I think it's impossible not to demystify a song when saying what it's about.…

— Trent Reznor

When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.

— Talib Kweli

I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.

— Jessie J

The music, I think, is just as important as the lyrics; it portrays the emotion of the song. I play the kind of music…

— Courtney Barnett

Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to the defiant,…

— Nick Cave