Evaluation Quote by Kurt Cobain

Critics always get the lyrics wrong in reviews, which is amusing - especially when they use them against you.

— Kurt Vile

People don't stress enough that when they're writing lyrics, they are writing.

— Aesop Rock

It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to…

— Taylor Swift

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

“To me, lyrics are harder to write when you have to invent the feelings behind them. That's when lyrics take a lot of thought,…

— Colleen Hoover

Sometimes people mishear my lyrics and think a song's about something it isn't.

— Kate Bush

I actually hate lyrics, and I hate it when they're quoted in reviews. I don't think they matter that much; it's the sounds of…

— Greg Gutfeld

There is an actor's responsibility in presenting the emotional content of the lyrics to an audience. But whether you do that in a straightforward…

— Kurt Elling

Sometimes when you listen to the lyrics of a song it feels like they were written just for you.

— James Merrow

I used to get these reviews in American newspapers saying that they didn't understand what my lyrics were about. I saw that as a…

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

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

When I sit down and try to write lyrics first - I've definitely done that in the past - but most of the time,…

— Ty Segall