Song Quote by James Hetfield

Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something.…

— Nate Ruess

Lyrics are back, maybe. It seems like there was a bit of an attitude that lyrics are not important.

— Stephen Malkmus

People don't really care about lyrics anymore. It's kinda really sad, like they'll listen to something musically and has a really cool beat down…

— Roger Miret

On the whole, it bums me out that lyrics seem to be written as afterthoughts nowadays. Not sure why this is, but hopefully things…

— Wooden Wand

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

— David Gilmour

I sometimes never really realize what lyrics are saying.

— Grace Chatto

I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know. I think people miss that.

— Dawn Richard

It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning

— Elliott Smith

To me, the lyrics mean more then the music, and that's the way it should always be.

— Roger Miret

No matter how many times people try to pick my lyrics apart, nobody will really understand what these songs truly mean to me because…

— Bert McCracken

So if somebody writes a song that appears to have some meaning then everybody thinks that it's a really heavy song.

— Elliott Smith

Basically, no one else gives me any opinions on lyrics. I don't ask for them. If they did, I would listen.

— Stephen Malkmus