Accomplish Quote by John K. Samson

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more…

— Iris DeMent

I don't like lyrics to be overbearing. I like them to say something. But I'm not trying to change the world overnight. Something simple…

— Paul Rodgers

The simpler songs are just done when the lyric has been stated; the more complex or band-oriented stuff can go in a million directions.

— Robin Pecknold

World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.

— Youssou N'Dour

I think my songs serve a purpose in a very therapeutic way to do with relationships, very different to do with my opinions on…

— Lapsley

I don't even know if I always entirely get what I'm trying to say right away with lyrics. I like a lot of things…

— Kim Gordon

It's funny: I look at songs, and I guess they each tell a story, and the different songs talk about different things. But they're…

— Dianne Reeves

Each album you make, each body of music, you just never know how the world's going to relate to it.

— Robert Trujillo

Every song has a different genesis, or feeling. Usually the lyrics, I don't really know what it's all about, I just kinda do it.…

— Stephen Malkmus

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw…

— Anonymous

The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.

— Bruce Springsteen

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

— Roger Miret