Behinds Quote by Wes Borland

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

I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.

— King Tuff

Sometimes you might get inspired by something, write about it, then later that lyrics sounds better on another beat. That's happened a few times.…

— Dizzee Rascal

I don't think my lyrics go so well when I try to sound poetic. Some people do that really well. If I did that…

— Chaz Bundick

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can. I tell the songwriter's story. When…

— Sharon Jones

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

“To me, lyrics are harder to write when you have to invent the feelings behind them. That's when lyrics take a lot of thought,…

— Colleen Hoover

People don't stress enough that when they're writing lyrics, they are writing.

— Aesop Rock

There's lots of bands where somebody will write lyrics and somebody else will sing them. It works for a lot of people, but that…

— Frank Iero

Sometimes when you sing someone else's song over and over again or songs that have been given to you, you're afraid to go out…

— Dinah Jane

Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my…

— Imogen Heap

Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches,…

— Ian Anderson