Different Quote by Paul Simon

Certain songs mean a lot to you, and they don't really resonate with anybody else, and the ones you don't necessarily love are the…

— Ryan Hurd

I think the difference between a good song and a great song is... honestly, I think the lyrics, because if you have a really…

— Bonnie McKee

No matter how many times people try to pick my lyrics apart, nobody will really understand what these songs truly mean to me because…

— Bert McCracken

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

— Roger Miret

A good song's a good song, and well known songs take on meaning in people's lives.

— Ty Segall

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

— Syd Barrett

Okay, a truly great song is a song that makes its own aesthetic intentions clear and then lives up to them and exceeds them…

— Stephin Merritt

Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them

— John Lennon

The songs that work best are broad lyrically and have one strong concept in the metaphor.

— Sia

Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But…

— Jarvis Cocker

The meaning of the words in my songs are very important to me. But what's most important to me is that the music works.

— Julia Holter

Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what the artist…

— Matt Corby