Art Quote by Kate Bush

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

— David Gilmour

When there are no lyrics, people can picture what they want. It's a reflection of where they are in their lives. Music becomes a…

— Hiromi Uehara

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

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

I'm particularly attuned to lyrics, and very often a bad set of lyrics will ruin a song for me, while my friends will be…

— Bruce Cockburn

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

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

— Brian Eno

I would agree with that. But when I write lyrics, personally I don't care if the person who is listening to it understands what…

— David W. Marsden

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 guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

— Kate Bush

When it comes to the lyrics, I write about my own perception of things and use characters for that.

— Yasmine Hamdan

Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.

— Jeff Tweedy