Comic Quote by Stephen Foster

When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as…

— Jonathan Lethem

I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from the ridiculous…

— Tom Lehrer

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

— Liz Phair

Lyrics of some songs are vulgar... I feel they are not good for the society.

— Kumar Sanu

Unfortunately, we are living in an era where plenty of songs with vulgar, objectionable lyrics are also becoming popular. It's a disturbing trend, and…

— Shreya Ghoshal

I grew up at the time of Social Realism in Poland, when everyone was supposed to be 'writing for the workers.' But I soon…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

It's not like changing one word with my lyrics is going to make them more intelligible or relatable. I was always very misunderstood and…

— Paul Banks

I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.

— Charles Lamb

Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the…

— Fanny Crosby

I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.

— David Bowie

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

— David Bowie

When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want…

— Anonymous