Top 1200 Music And Lyrics Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

If it's the beginning of something - like an album, I'm working on the lyrics and I take a walkman and headset.

If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?

There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization without music. When you realize today that music is such a part of people's lives. And will always be, really.

What I love about Blink-128 is that we write catchy melodies with dark lyrics.

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

I'm into indie music. I think indie is going to bring back the spirit in music. There was a time when it was all about accommodating the music business, the music was getting tasteless, but the spirit is back.

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

It makes no sense to me at all to give away music for free. The very fact that we have to do that cheapens the music. And there's a huge effect to that of music not playing such a big part in peoples' lives anymore.

Great song lyrics are as valid a part of American literature as any novel.

I'm definitely still putting effort into my lyrics, for them to be emotional and tell a story.

Image, lyrics, content, storytelling, cohesive body of work - that's Prince to me.

I don't just do music for the clubs, I do music for the struggle. I do music for everyday niggas, the kids who ain't got no sense of direction. I'm trying to restore some of the morals back into the game, as far as the street.

My mother wrote lyrics and sang but was overtaken by life with four children and worked.

In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.

I still know the lyrics to pretty much any 'Mary Poppins' song.

I like Kendrick as an artist. He's witty and he's smart when he's spitting in his lyrics. And he's crafty.

I think Gwen, in her lyrics, always touches on personal subject matter.

We all write the lyrics together, but Frank really shines on 'em pretty good.

I've had a bit of a crazy life. So writing lyrics in songs is easy for me.

When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.

When you write really good lyrics - and sometimes I did! - they are just a joy to sing.

My advice to young people wanting to make music and to be in this industry is to really spend your time making music. Make so much music you have no friends. Make music. Figure out what it is you love, and... because if you're making cool art, then everything else will fall into line.

I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.

The very best thing for music would be to live next door to a person who listens to loud music so you could mishear music everyday and mutate it to your own means.

There is something about performing my own music, and other people's music, that gives me pleasure. I think I learn more by doing that than I ever did studying music.

I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It's not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio.

Most of all, I like to sing my heart out to lyrics that really speak to people.

I would love to write a song that's exciting, bright, and has a fresh melody and lyrics.

The riffs, lyrics, and drums of 'Open Your Omen' will tell you a lot.

I'm glad that the lyrics reach people and make them understand that we're all the same, really.

It's really deep with incredible lyrics. That's why I decided to call the album 'Words.'

I'm really big into lyrics in my own songs, so I look up to Drake in that aspect.

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

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

If my lyrics mean something special to someone... that's the most important thing to me.

I felt brave when I sang and could put into lyrics what I couldn't tell anybody else.

The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.

Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean.

I try to write in a way where the lyrics have many meanings and you won't really know what's behind it.

I've been working to define my individual style and vision and I believe it is reflected in the music. I feel better mentally, physically and spiritually so I've brought that to the music. I still make love songs so there are some messages in the music about men appreciating their women. I'm also still bringing party and club hits but with more substance in the music.

Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.

Music can make a difference. There is a global nature to music, which has the potential to bring all people together. Music is truly an international language, and I hope to contribute by widening communication as much as I can.

I remember always looking forward to listening to country music in the car with my mother, and it wasn't even something I enjoyed in the sense of music, but just being around music itself was enough.

I'm a very optimistic person. I have the chance to listen to so much phenomenal music. Connecting with social networking to create music is a progression of what electronic music does anyway - it connects people.

I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.

I only know the lyrics to songs that I listened to between the ages of 11 and 15.

If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.

Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody.

During 'Torches,' I was more concerned with communicating the spirit of the song than the actual lyrics.

There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics.

What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard?

I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.

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

I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that sense. My love for music has always been connected to the stories told through music, which is why I was drawn to theater and why I think 'Glee' is so powerful.

The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed.

I love when I dive into lyrics that give me human complexity and intricate narrative.

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

Most of all I like to sing my heart out to lyrics that really speak to people.