About Quote by Trent Reznor

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

A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.

— Thurston Moore

I was literally told for 'The Show Goes On' that I shouldn't rap too deep. I shouldn't be too lyrical. It just needs to…

— Lupe Fiasco

People relate to songs so differently. No matter what it's about in reality, people create their own meaning behind it and connect with it…

— Sharon Van Etten

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going…

— Vince Gill

It's one thing to be saying what you're saying in music because it's art coupled with a lot of different things. Whether you're trying…

— B-Real

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

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.

— Conor Oberst

Because the beauty of songs, I think, is if you do it right a lot of people can relate to it in their own…

— Amanda Shires

It's very strange when people get so focused on what a song means, what actual events inspired a song. That gets people really excited…

— Conor Oberst

I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.

— Lauren Mayberry

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe