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I privilege the music over the lyrics. -- Duncan Sheik
My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards. -- Sarah McLachlan
Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff. -- Cass McCombs
My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy. -- Gary Wright
I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. -- Alice Cooper
I want to touch people's lives with my music and my lyrics. -- Romeo Santos
I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays. -- Jerome Kern
A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics. -- Kailash Kher
We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics. -- Travis Barker
I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me. -- Lee DeWyze
I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry. -- Patti LaBelle
I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone. -- Sebastian Bach
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically. -- Brian Eno
Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are. -- Gary Wright
I find most modern country virtually unlistenable. I can't relate to the music or the lyrics. -- Jenny Lewis
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about. -- Brian Eno
I've always been a fan of country music. It's America's music - I love the songs, love the lyrics. -- Charles Koppelman
Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem. -- Emmanuel Jal
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. -- Maurice Gibb
I listen to a variety of music. The only common point is strong lyrics; I'm more obsessed with lyrics than music. I need to hear a form of truth, and if it's a hard truth, even better. -- Lou Doillon
Music is first, lyrics are secondary. -- Kurt Cobain
I privilege the music over the lyrics -- Duncan Sheik
Making music, creating lyrics comes very naturally to me. -- Junaid Jamshed
Lyrics belongs to us ina specific language, but music is universal. -- Abrar Ahmed chowdhury
Music is for making people happy, lyrics tell them who they are. -- Gustav Ejstes
Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I have way too many songs that have music but don't have lyrics. -- Jonny Lang
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
When you are happy, you enjoy music, when you are sad, you understand lyrics -- Frank Ocean
It takes more talent to write music, but it takes more courage to write lyrics. -- Johnny Mercer
Sometimes we focus on the lyrics too much and forget to dance to the music. -- Alexa Anderson
When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics. -- Frank Ocean
When you're happy, you enjoy the music but when you're sad, you undestand the lyrics. -- Frank Ocean
When you're happy, you enjoy the music. But when you're sad, you understand the lyrics. -- Frank Ocean
I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music. -- Rokia Traore
I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad. -- Dan Bejar
To me, the lyrics mean more then the music, and that's the way it should always be. -- Roger Miret
Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience. -- Mark Hoppus
As a songwriter, I don't rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits. -- Ben Harper
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important. -- Brian Eno
sometimes music isn't just a bunch of sounds and lyrics, sometimes it's more than that: a time machine... -- Alina Radoi
I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics. -- Obie Trice
We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco. -- Jello Biafra
For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across. -- Joe Strummer
Im not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to. -- Fetty Wap
I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to. -- Fetty Wap
I probably listen to more instrumental music than music with lyrics, but at the same time I do love both. -- Flume
Lyrical content is very important to me. I'm always trying to make sure the lyrics and music complement each other perfectly. -- Matt Smith
If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story. -- Kate Smith
I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too. -- Neil Farber
There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music. -- Phil Collins
I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else. -- Sarah McLachlan
We all decided that from the start, me and Richey can't write music but we can write lyrics and look pretty tarty. -- Nicky Wire
Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has. -- Lou Reed
Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too. -- Stephen Malkmus
I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else -- Sarah McLachlan
Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do. -- Stephen Sondheim
I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away. -- Chris Cornell
I feel there is always room for good music. I want to reach people's soul with my lyrics through whatever vessel God chooses. -- Ne-Yo
You stand for nothing. You respect nobody. The music you dance to is devoid of beauty, its lyrics empty of humor or cleverness. -- David Klass
Surf is that music which is entirely about evoking something. There's never any vocals, so it's not about the lyrics, it's about the reverb. -- Stephin Merritt
Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other. -- Ahmet Ertegun
I can't read music and I'm crap at learning lyrics. Especially since the accident I have memory problems. I can't remember words, names, places. -- Marc Almond
To all companies please stop using Xmas songs and inserting your own lyrics. Write your own music. I am boycotting you until you stop. -- Bill Engvall
I can't write - out of all the things it takes to make music, lyrics are the thing I'm by far the shittiest at. -- Jay Watson
I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later. -- Elton John
Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics. -- Mika
I know that my fans will probably learn a lot about me by listening to my music, if they really listen to the lyrics. -- Ariana Grande
I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics. -- Eddie Van Halen
Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write. -- Yannis Philippakis
I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the music to it. -- Margaret Cho
I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing songs. -- Stephen Sondheim
If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale. -- Nicholas Sparks
A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones..." and that's it. -- Alex Scally
If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to them with music. -- Roddy Woomble
In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music. -- James Fenton
I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on. -- Etgar Keret
I let the music set the tone of the lyrics.I allowed myself to write more about relationships and emotions, in a girly way almost. -- Jose Gonzalez
I really like worship music. It settles my soul. Gets me back on track. The lyrics are almost like a prayer, so it's my go-to. -- Jodi Benson
I've always felt that dark lyrics with dark music is pretty useless. Maybe that's a strong statement - not useless, but for me, it's just boring. -- Andrew Bird
The music and lyrics of Rodgers & Hammerstein connect seamlessly. Singing those beautiful songs was a joyous experience for me, and one that I will never forget. -- Julie Andrews
Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics. -- Aloe Blacc
I usually have a song in my head. I'm thinking music, I'm thinking lyrics. Music helps me get to those moments. The moments between the moments. -- Charlie Sheen
Music is also one of the great heart openers. Sometimes, you hear the lyrics of a song and you dance, laugh, smile, or perhaps even cry. -- Michael Franti
I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first. -- Emmylou Harris
I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it. -- Joni Mitchell
No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about music, about the band. -- Pete Doherty
When I write lyrics, it's only when I'm angry or hurt or sad. So lyrically it's never really easy going. And the music is always really intense. -- Henry Rollins
Now who is the king of these lewd, ludicrous, lucrative lyrics; who could inherit the title, to put the youth in hysterics; using his music as spirit -- Eminem
I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" is pretty clever. -- Alice Cooper
There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer. -- Yanni
Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos. -- Jason Robert Brown
Work It Harder Make It BetterDo It Faster, Makes Us strongerMore Than Ever Hour AfterOur Work Is Never Over-Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, lyrics and music by Daft Punk -- Daft Punk
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. -- Stephen Sondheim
There's not much longevity in music today. It's so easy to go in, put some pretentious lyrics on, with people saying the same thing over and over and over. -- Patti LaBelle
Sondheim writes the music and lyrics, and because he's so smart and goes so deep with his feelings, there's a lot to explore, get involved with and learn about. -- Bernadette Peters
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 -- Trudi Canavan
Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them. -- Sarah Churchwell

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