Dj Quote by Kano

When I first started writing lyrics and stuff, I was writing it to garage, and obviously garage kind of progressed to grime.

— Lady Sovereign

Initially we were spitting lyrics over garage beats, in that eight-bar gap where there wasn't a vocal. But we were rebellious towards garage because…

— Kano

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an…

— Phil Harris

The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really…

— Jimmy Chamberlin

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

— Anonymous

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

On the first two albums, I essentially began with lyrics and placed the music underneath or around the words.

— Perfume Genius

I always thought it was important for my lyrics to come from a really honest place.

— Avey Tare

In my early years, I was much too ignorant and didn't realize how desperately important it all is, how really important the lyrics are.…

— Julie Andrews

There's a certain power in vague language, but I started to get more into the idea of really trying to have a discrete thought…

— David Longstreth

Sometimes you might get inspired by something, write about it, then later that lyrics sounds better on another beat. That's happened a few times.…

— Dizzee Rascal

Sometimes, to be honest with you, our lyrics were written a day before the vocal had to be done.

— Steve Porcaro