Happened Quote by Lou Rawls Download Open image “A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.” — Lou Rawls ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happened Mean Song
I always try to write about something that's actually happened or it doesn't always have to have happened to me, but it has to have happened at some point. So every single lyric that you hear comes from some kind of story that I've come across in my life. I like to think that that maybe helps me mean it… — Joss Stone Copy Share
If my lyrics mean something special to someone... that's the most important thing to me. — Dia Frampton Copy Share Image
I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction. — Barry Mann Copy Share Image
I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying to say something, instead of it naturally coming out of me, like I was saying something that I already knew. Anyway, I can't remember what it was. And either I threw it all out or I threw 90… — Paul Simon Copy Share
If I just gave you a piece of paper with the lyrics written down on it, it would mean something to you. It would… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It… — Alison Krauss Copy Share Image
I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation. — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
There's no ifs and buts or maybes, you're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my loving. — Lou Rawls Copy Share Image
I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up… — Lou Rawls Copy Share Image
I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life. — Lou Rawls Copy Share Image
I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've… — Lou Rawls Copy Share Image
The preacher asked her and she said I do. The preacher asked me, and she said yes he does, too. — Lou Rawls Copy Share Image
Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music… — Lou Rawls Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able to hit with everybody yelling at him. He had to block all that out, block out everything but this ball that is coming in at a hundred miles an hour and he's got a split… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share
I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very flattering thing to admit. I don't know that I'd ever planned to be in this situation. I'm still just an idiot, really really stupid. It's not like I'm now a genius because this has happened. I just got… — Ty Burrell Copy Share
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
How come I end up where I started How come I end up where I belong... You used to be alright What happened? — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of… — David Lange Copy Share Image
Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
When somebody mentions that I did a play with George C. Scott, I'm like, it can't have happened. What was I doing on a… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
