Attention Quote by Taylor Swift

When I'm listening to a song, it's the lyrics and the stories they tell that matter most to me.

— Sara Evans

Sometimes people mishear my lyrics and think a song's about something it isn't.

— Kate Bush

I always try to leave songs open for people to interpret in their own ways.

— Ryan Bingham

I find it not just strange but almost ridiculous that people could take a song like the one I was doing and interpret it…

— Gil Scott-Heron

I would agree with that. But when I write lyrics, personally I don't care if the person who is listening to it understands what…

— David W. Marsden

I'm particularly attuned to lyrics, and very often a bad set of lyrics will ruin a song for me, while my friends will be…

— Bruce Cockburn

I also feel like it's the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean. Sometimes people…

— Zooey Deschanel

Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it.

— King Krule

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

— James Merrow

Once you really get into a song, other than just listening to it, it forces you to go 'oh, they did this. I never…

— Greg Laswell

If someone ever asks you to listen to a song, pay attention to the lyrics..Because its everything they want to say.

— Anonymous

I'd gotten to a point where I would write a lyric and then delete it because I was worried about how it sounded. Pretty…

— Thomston