Helping Quote by Joshua Homme Download Open image “After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language.” — Joshua Homme ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Helping Language Mess Song Writing
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I really don't like writing lyrics. It's totally a mandatory thing. It's like homework. — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the phrasing and… — Kelela Copy Share Image
I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there. — King Tuff Copy Share Image
The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody. — Utada Hikaru Copy Share Image
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising. — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I feel like my lyrics meander a little bit, and our songs are so big I need to write more words than are… — M. Shadows Copy Share Image
I like to write in fairly everyday language - I've always tried to write lyrics that, if people would speak the words, it wouldn't… — Tim Rice Copy Share Image
People don't stress enough that when they're writing lyrics, they are writing. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
It's weird to try to write lyrics for somebody else. They can't really get behind what you're saying or what you want them to… — Wes Borland Copy Share Image
It's fun to toy around with press stuff a little bit, because in many ways it's not a real world. — Joshua Homme Copy Share Image
I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make… — Joshua Homme Copy Share Image
The music as a whole is selfish, but the musicians aren't," "The song may go on forever but it's not about competition within the… — Joshua Homme Copy Share Image
Banks are kinda cool, you put some money in there. It should be kinda vaguely sexy, but it's not. — Joshua Homme Copy Share Image
I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down. — Joshua Homme Copy Share Image
The Queens Of The Stone Age have teamed up with multimedia wizard brain Liam Lynch to make the video for 'Burn The Witch' ,… — Joshua Homme Copy Share Image
I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with. — Joshua Homme Copy Share Image
I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark… — Joshua Homme Copy Share Image
I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker. — Joshua Homme Copy Share Image
I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“We will all, at some point in our lives, fall. Every single one of us. We shouldn't spend our time trying to avoid falling.… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency rather than… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can't succeed without your help. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
