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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about. -- Brian Eno
Lyrics are for teenage girls, brah. -- Eric Anthony
Lyrics are weak, like clock radio speakers. -- GZA
Lyrics are always the last thing to get done. -- Jeff Hanneman
Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff. -- Cass McCombs
Lyrics belongs to us ina specific language, but music is universal. -- Abrar Ahmed chowdhury
Lyrics are tough for me and I never feel like they're quite done. -- Stacey King
Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away. -- Matt Berninger
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically. -- Brian Eno
If Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony. -- Nicholas Sparks
If you're single, then I'm single?" What's that supposed to be? Lyrics to a pop song? -- Sophie Kinsella
Lyrics are coming to you all the time. I get inspiration in the middle of the night. -- Rod Stewart
Lyrics have got to be simple and catchy. A hook is more important than an overall concept or story. -- Galcher Lustwerk
Lyrics are back, maybe. It seems like there was a bit of an attitude that lyrics are not important. -- Stephen Malkmus
Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished. -- Nate Ruess
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it. -- Stephen Sondheim
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Lyrics always fall short with the amount of energy thrown into the playing. Lyrics to some extent are just the product of a singer's insecurity with singing. -- Brian Chippendale
Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing. -- Alison Krauss
Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing -- Alison Krauss
Lyrics should not need to stand on their own; many of [Bob] Dylan's do, but in common with other great lyricists, he has written plenty that falters on the page but soars in song. -- David Bennun
Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme. -- Joanna Newsom
I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. -- Freddie Mercury
I want to touch people's lives with my music and my lyrics. -- Romeo Santos
Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page. -- Taylor Swift
As a lyricist, you love to hear other great lyrics or other great concepts. -- Alicia Keys
The Smiths hasn't been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance. -- Jeff Buckley
Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am. -- Joan Jett
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
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. -- Ken Hensley
While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps create a consistent mood for each book. -- Chuck Palahniuk
How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated? -- Robert Plant
I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily. -- John Mayer
I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes. -- Neil Peart
If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance. -- Bruce Springsteen
Most of 'All Hail West Texas' was written during orientation at a new job I had. I had basically worked this job before, I knew this stuff, so I was writing lyrics in the margins of all the Xeroxed material. -- John Darnielle
With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music - you can't do that in jazz. You can't do that with classical. -- Serj Tankian
I deliberate over the lyrics; I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me. -- Rod Stewart
I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out. -- Thom Yorke
I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to other people's songs that I heard on the radio and take whatever song and make it about fairies and angels - whatever little girls sing about. -- Bonnie McKee
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. -- Alan Vega
Appetite for Destruction' was the only thing written with lyrics and melody fitting the guitar parts at the same time. After that, I got a barrage of guitar songs that I was supposed to put words to, and I don't know if that was the best thing for Guns. -- Axl Rose
When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs. -- Alanis Morissette
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams... Motivation? The memory of the rush I get from a really good writing session - even on a bad day, I know I'll find that again if I keep going. -- Trudi Canavan
In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike. -- Maya Angelou
I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story. -- Vanilla Ice
When I realized I could write lyrics and let someone that I knew listen to them, but not know that the song was about them - say it was a girl. I could write this song about how I feel about this girl, I could play it to them. I just loved it, because all of the words would speak to them. I could see them slowly falling in love with me. -- King Krule
Every song with lyrics is lyrical. -- Vince Staples
Music is first, lyrics are secondary. -- Kurt Cobain
I'm not psychic, but my lyrics are. -- Courtney Love
Not follow me but follow the lyrics. -- Rakim
I privilege the music over the lyrics -- Duncan Sheik
I privilege the music over the lyrics. -- Duncan Sheik
But I always loved songs with great lyrics. -- Johnny Ramistella
My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions, -- Kurt Cobain
But I always loved songs with great lyrics. -- Johnny Ramistella
Did you write the words, or the lyrics? -- Bruce Forsyth
It's really important that my lyrics are truthful. -- Lianne La Havas
I like to write my lyrics on clay tablets. -- Randy Newman
I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics. -- Brody Dalle
My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive. -- Tyler, The Creator
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes. -- Brian Eno
My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards. -- Sarah McLachlan
Making music, creating lyrics comes very naturally to me. -- Junaid Jamshed
Every song deserves lyrics. Deserves a story to tell. -- Courtney C. Stevens
I'm used to getting sexy sometimes in the lyrics. -- John Legend
I don't write lyrics, the lyrics write Thom Yorke -- Thom Yorke
I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics. -- Win Butler
I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies. -- Michael Azerrad
I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano. -- Reggie Watts
I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics. -- King Krule
We had to google the lyrics to our own song -- Alex Gaskarth
A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really. -- Lenny Kravitz
If your life had lyrics, would they be any good? -- Douglas Coupland
I love lyrics. They help me to figure things out. -- Colleen Saidman
I kind of need to be ambulatory to write lyrics. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics. -- Courtney Love
And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics. -- Utada Hikaru
My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy. -- Gary Wright
A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on. -- Gordon Waller
Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets. -- Bernie Taupin
People pay attention to lyrics, and the race matter was delicate. -- Charley Pride
Here's the thing with lyrics: Words are just another musical instrument. -- Max Tundra
Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics, -- Charlie Chaplin
I'm not proud of the lyrics to 'Shake It Up.' -- Ric Ocasek
I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. -- Alice Cooper
Sex, death and war. And justice. There's no shortage of lyrics there. -- Lemmy Kilmister
Music is for making people happy, lyrics tell them who they are. -- Gustav Ejstes
A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics. -- Kailash Kher
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. -- Hans Christian Andersen
Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep. -- Utada Hikaru
It's a natural tendency of mine to not even listen to lyrics. -- Zach Condon
I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics. -- Ezra Koenig
I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays. -- Jerome Kern
People have no discrepancy for me or my lyrics or the song. -- Jadakiss
I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing. -- Chris Robinson
Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way. -- Kylie Minogue
Sometimes people mishear my lyrics and think a song's about something it isn't. -- Kate Bush
Maybe the key to finding the perfect song is simply rewriting the lyrics. -- Kandi Steiner
My lyrics are for strong, independent women who are both smart and fashionable. -- Shameik Moore
I can't' really sing a song unless I really connect with the lyrics. -- Molly Ringwald
If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other? -- Frank Zappa
I have way too many songs that have music but don't have lyrics. -- Jonny Lang
I've gotten to a point where I don't want lyrics to mean anything. -- Mary Timony
My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life. -- Taylor Momsen
We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics. -- Travis Barker
Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves. -- Barry Mann
You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it. -- Lou Reed
I'm not saying I'm God. But as far as lyrics, I'm God MC. -- Jay-Z
I felt a kinship with country music, because country has lyrics that tell stories -- Desmond Child
Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics. -- Colin Meloy
I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential. -- Yannis Philippakis
The problem isn't with rock lyrics, it's with the fabric of this society itself. -- Jodi Picoult
It's such a rush doing a concert and seeing people actually mouthing the lyrics. -- Carnie Wilson
When you are happy, you enjoy music, when you are sad, you understand lyrics -- Frank Ocean
Blending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging. -- Maynard James Keenan
Usually, writing lyrics for me is like bleeding drop by drop from the forehead. -- Matt Berninger
I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from. -- Quincy Jones
We take gingko to sharpen our memories. We could be memorizing song lyrics instead. -- Joan Oliver Goldsmith

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