Brain Quote by Porter Robinson

Because of things like 'The X Factor' and 'Autotune', the real art of communicating a song is not treasured any more. But singing other…

— Katie Melua

My lyrics are quite train of thought, and they are all over the place, but they evoke something.

— St. Lucia

When there are no lyrics, people can picture what they want. It's a reflection of where they are in their lives. Music becomes a…

— Hiromi Uehara

The music that we listen to these days, everything is right there in your face. There's no real mystery. It's not poetic. I want…

— Ro James

Obviously, lyrics go into music and I do think about them and I do be having bars in my music but they're just super…

— Ice Spice

Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely…

— Dan Bejar

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an…

— Phil Harris

There's a certain power in vague language, but I started to get more into the idea of really trying to have a discrete thought…

— David Longstreth

As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to…

— Tom Wopat

Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25…

— Geddy Lee

I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable…

— Greil Marcus

I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing it.

— Kim Gordon