Able Quote by Merle Haggard

I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got a good…

— Johnny Cash

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…

— Paul Simon

Sometimes people come up and say, "You have this line in this song and it meant a lot to me." You don't always remember…

— Craig Finn

“If it’s your song, I don’t need lyrics to know what you’re saying.”

— Meredith Shayne

“There is a broken song that plays over in my head each time I hear someone say his name.”

— Elizabeth Heller

For every situation, there is a suitable line from a song.

— Anonymous

Theres always a certain line in a song that will always get stuck in your mind because it reminds you of a place, a…

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Songs about death and lost love and rambling down the line because sometimes down the line was the only place left.”

— William Gay

There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little…

— Feist

Did you ever notice that there is always that particular line in that certain song that always stands out in a certain way and…

— Anonymous

Sam [Phillips] wanted I Walk The Line up - you know, up-tempo. And I put paper in the strings of my guitar to get…

— Johnny Cash

Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.

— Stephen Malkmus