Important Quote by Woody Guthrie

I don't know what any of my tunes are about, they're just out there. I'm not good with words. I just say the first…

— Liam Gallagher

Don't be afraid to write bad songs and then start over and re-evaluate. Songs are like plants, in that you grow them. Some grow…

— Corey Harris

You don't play around with a good song. You try to just say it right in the proper place, and if you get the…

— Glen Campbell

Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to…

— T-Pain

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary that has…

— Jonathan Demme

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realise that.

— Billie Eilish

I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.

— Charles Stuart Calverley

This is where the guys who copy me are planted: I do not use auto-tune, I sing. That's my advice!

— Young Thug

The meaning of the words in my songs are very important to me. But what's most important to me is that the music works.

— Julia Holter

Listen closely to the songs I play, because the lyrics speak the words I fail to say.

— Anonymous

You're dealing in magic-it's this intangible thing that has to happen. And to seek it out too much might not be a good idea.…

— Tom Petty

I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.

— Charles Stuart Calverley