Lyrics Quotes

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. (Hans Christian Andersen)
Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process. View quote
Geddy Lee
We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation. View quote
Art Garfunkel
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to. View quote
Maurice Gibb
I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody. View quote
Ken Hensley
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. View quote
Stephen Sondheim
I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny. View quote
Jonathan Davis
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat. View quote
Alan Vega
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting. (David Antin)
He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I think that's the key and that's the magic, it's making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they're on the dance floor. View quote
Deborah Cox
It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful. View quote
Michael Bolton
If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics. View quote
Stephen Malkmus
The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative. View quote
Stephen Malkmus
A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really. View quote
Lenny Kravitz
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Both poetry and lyrics and all visual arts draw their power from their ability to express abstractions of reality. ...that is a feature of the musical brain. View quote
Daniel Levitin
My problem was that I felt ashamed of feeling sad or angry. Now, I don't hide my vulnerability in my lyrics. There's no way I was going to get raped and not get something out of it. I learned about power and hope and forgiveness. I like who I am now and I wouldn't be who I am if that hadn't happened. View quote
Fiona Apple
For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across. View quote
Joe Strummer
I am delighted at Des's support in these elections. And thank him for his rewrite of the lyrics of Send in the Clowns which we are planning to sing at our South East conference. (Nigel Farage)
I write all my own songs and they are just simple melodies with a lot of lyrics. They usually have to do with current events and what is going on in the news. You can call them topical songs, songs about the news, and then developing into more philosophical songs later. View quote
Phil Ochs
I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to. View quote
Lindsay Lohan
No matter how many times people try to pick my lyrics apart ... nobody will really understand what these songs truly mean to me because I would rather not get into it. View quote
Bert McCracken
Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly? View quote
Kurt Cobain