A Quote by Billie Eilish

Lyrics are so important, but they're really underrated. — © Billie Eilish
Lyrics are so important, but they're really underrated.
Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
In my early years, I was much too ignorant and didn't realize how desperately important it all is, how really important the lyrics are. And for me as a singer, I am a lady who takes the lyrics first.
Lyrics are back, maybe. It seems like there was a bit of an attitude that lyrics are not important.
Lyrics are really important for me.
It's really important that my lyrics are truthful.
A lot of people I know hate Paul McCartney in general. I guess I understand, but I'm a fan. I think he's a little underrated in my peer group - unlike John Lennon. He's not my favorite Beatle, but he's a goddamn good songwriter and he makes a lot of really cheesy, schmaltzy stuff but he's still underrated.
Songs, especially lyrics, have always been really important to me.
I didn't even write the lyrics down. I got in the booth, I put down a little guitar riff and the idea I had was it was going to be really simple, I just want it to be all about the lyrics and I just literally sang the lyrics.
I always thought it was important for my lyrics to come from a really honest place.
Every song has a different genesis, or feeling. Usually the lyrics, I don't really know what it's all about, I just kinda do it. I mean, there's a combination of, like you're saying, that kind of lyrics about commitment or vaguely relationship lyrics mixed with jokey 90s Beck-style non-sequiturs and stuff.
People don't really care about lyrics anymore. It's kinda really sad, like they'll listen to something musically and has a really cool beat down or something, that's great, that's good enough; but the message is the most important thing.
The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.
Finally I started really opening up as a songwriter and an interpreter and taking songs from all kind of genres and stripping them down to just lyrics and the story inside the lyrics, and trying to make them really mine.
A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.
I've really been studying lyrics, printing out lyrics to songs I love and reading them like a letter.
One night, I remember being really sick in bed with chills and a fever when Ann came in all excited and said, 'I have these lyrics! Let me read them to you!' They were the lyrics to 'Crazy on You,' and in my fever haze I said, 'Yeah! Those are really good!'
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