Astounding Quote by LP

Sometimes it's nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.

— Geddy Lee

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input…

— David Bowie

I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer.

— PJ Harvey

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

— James Merrow

What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.

— Ann Reed

So if somebody writes a song that appears to have some meaning then everybody thinks that it's a really heavy song.

— Elliott Smith

That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.

— RaeLynn

I love when a song is so specific that there's not much room for interpretation.

— Gracie Abrams

To me, the lyrics mean more then the music, and that's the way it should always be.

— Roger Miret

The thrill of writing songs for other people, when you get that right, that person's soul speaks to that song; you've done them a…

— LP

I love a beautiful, soaring, singable melody. But what really draws me to a song, at the end of the day, is the words.

— Lari White

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.

— Gene Clark