Books Quote by Dominic Owen Mallary

My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions. They're split between very sincere opinions and feelings that I have, and sarcastic opinions and feelings…

— Kurt Cobain

“Music is my inspiration. When my brain and music come together they form something unpredictable. The songs are the talent that fuels my characters.…

— Christina Casino

One of the nice things about songwriting is you can be inspired by absolutely anything.

— Jens Lekman

Inspiration comes from everywhere. Obviously, my lyrics are what I most care about in the moment and what I feel like I need to…

— Sophie Hawley-Weld

I'm inspired by almost every artist I come across.

— Michelle Chamuel

People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

— Talib Kweli

I kind of got inspired by [William] Wordsworth and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess.

— Eliot Paulina Sumner

I was inspired by people like Joni Mitchell and Carole King and Stevie and "Storytellers." People that could really change the world with their…

— Emeli Sande

“To me, lyrics are harder to write when you have to invent the feelings behind them. That's when lyrics take a lot of thought,…

— Colleen Hoover

When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what…

— Marcus Mumford

“Here's how I used to think you made a book: a poet comes along, mouth half open, inspired, then suddenly the idiot bursts into…

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

When it comes to the lyrics, I write about my own perception of things and use characters for that.

— Yasmine Hamdan