Lyrics Quotes

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.

To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.

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.

Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.

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.

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.

You won't talk to anybody who breaks lyrics down more thoroughly. It's just a complete deconstruction, and when you start to rebuild, nobody has the capacity to do it like me. Which is not to say I'm better, it's just that there's a unique quality to everyone.

But I always loved songs with great lyrics.

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.

And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.

A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.

The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.

I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good.

Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.

My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.

Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.

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.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.

I was looking at the setlist backstage and I just said, 'Oh my God, the first six songs nobody's gonna know.' But they all knew the lyrics. It just blew me away.

I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.

Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.

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.

I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.

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.