Basketball Quote by Travis Morrison

I've always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it's great when you can do that -…

— Ian Anderson

The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work.…

— Tom Scholz

It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out.

— Sia

I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the phrasing and…

— Kelela

Sometimes I'll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I'll write the whole song, and that's really…

— Jonny Lang

Sometimes I just start humming something, find a melody I like a lot, and if it sticks around for a couple days, a few…

— Jack Johnson

You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.

— Kurt Elling

Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising.

— St. Lucia

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

— Anonymous

If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not…

— Kacey Musgraves

I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind…

— Washed Out

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.

— Matt Berninger