Language Quote by Greyson Chance

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

— Oscar Isaac

I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing…

— PJ Harvey

I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.

— Dave Matthews

I privilege the music over the lyrics

— Duncan Sheik

I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes…

— PJ Harvey

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

— Roy Harper

I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.

— Van Morrison

When you've written a song, sometimes it's really hard to wrap your brain around what somebody else is doing, or maybe the way that…

— Gerard Way

I'm particularly attuned to lyrics, and very often a bad set of lyrics will ruin a song for me, while my friends will be…

— Bruce Cockburn

It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to…

— Taylor Swift

When I'm listening to a song, it's the lyrics and the stories they tell that matter most to me.

— Sara Evans

I love songs but am inhibited to have my characters burst out to express themselves through songs. I use the route of using old…

— Sriram Raghavan