Lyrics Quotes - page 3

I want to suggest a feeling. It's ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics. (Danielle Dax)
In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say. View quote
Giorgio Moroder
I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from. View quote
Gary Cherone
Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are. View quote
Gary Wright
Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented! View quote
Gavin Rossdale
I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang. View quote
Gavin Rossdale
I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs. View quote
Howie Mandel
Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them. View quote
Haley Reinhart
For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles. View quote
Jim Capaldi
I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy. View quote
Jo Stafford
But I always loved songs with great lyrics. (Johnny Ramistella)
'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for a pop song, pretty deep and dark. View quote
Jake Epstein
If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story. View quote
Kate Smith
From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile. View quote
Lara Pulver
I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me. View quote
Lee DeWyze
I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style. View quote
Marc Almond
I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about. View quote
Marcus Mumford
See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys. View quote
Mel Torme
I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last. View quote
Midge Ure
I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist. View quote
Mike Gordon
There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians. (Mike McCready)
I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we sang along to the lyrics. I was making $12 an hour. View quote
Monique Coleman
I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well. View quote
Namie Amuro
I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to perform. I've just initiated the project. That leads the project into creating an independent label outside of game music. View quote
Nobuo Uematsu
There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it. View quote
Nuno Bettencourt