Able Quote by Justin Vernon

You have to be careful when it comes to copyrights, whether just sounding like or feeling like something is enough to say you violated…

— John Legend

I've learned by experience that, if I get too clever with lyrics, or if I'm not totally embodying my own wants and needs in…

— Lou Barlow

It's so funny because if you tweet your lyrics and then you hear it in a song next week, you're like, 'Hey I had…

— Ester Dean

Of course, no lyrics are ever unintentional, but I think bands like Wolf Parade and the Arcade Fire have a tendency to touch on…

— Dan Bejar

I don't think my lyrics go so well when I try to sound poetic. Some people do that really well. If I did that…

— Chaz Bundick

Ironically, when I was playing in my first band, I would deliberately not write down any lyrics. I have a really good memory and…

— Craig Finn

There's this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in music: "It's…

— Alan Palomo

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

Lyrics are really, really hard, I think, or at least they're really hard for me. Some people can channel lyrics faster. I find them…

— Jack Garratt

I've tried to work really hard on never phoning in the lyrics.

— Sam Hunt

I think as someone who releases music to the world, not knowing how they're gonna take it, I think there's really not much I…

— Benson Boone

I'd like to do a song that I wrote today about our government's increasing infringement on our right to privacy, but the lyrics mysteriously…

— Dan Piraro