Top 1200 Music And Lyrics Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music.

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.

We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music

Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else.

I've really been studying lyrics, printing out lyrics to songs I love and reading them like a letter.

The music I wrote as a kid already was always instrumental. It was never based on lyrics.

Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.

I write lyrics based on music, on a musical flow, and what sounds good at the time.

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.

People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them, darling. I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyze his work: If you see it, dear, then it's there. ... I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. ... I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

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.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

I love Hank Williams, he's the original emo kid. Some of his lyrics remind me of, like, Promise Ring lyrics.

Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.

Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?

Lyrics are no more important than the music. There's no point in forcing them on people.

'White Rabbit' was mostly done in about two days, the music in about half an hour. The music is a 'Bolero' rip-off and the lyrics a rearrangement of 'Alice in Wonderland.' You take two spectacular hits and throw them together, and it's hard to miss.

Always when I write my music, I take my guitar, and I improvise always with a melody, you know, lyrics in Spanish. But sometimes I use some words in English. I don't know why. Maybe because I listen to a lot of music in English.

The great thing about Metallica's music and the lyrics, it's always going to be hopefully a motivating experience.

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

When I'm writing with John Leventhal, the music that he's written mostly comes first. And I'll write the lyrics and the melody.

For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.

I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.

When you have four people writing lyrics instead of one person, the lyrics are going to be a little more broad.

People, my age, people older, people younger, it's like they look up to me. They listen to my lyrics for wisdom. They listen to my lyrics for like game. They listen to my lyrics for real deal beneficial purposes.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.

When there are no lyrics, people can picture what they want. It's a reflection of where they are in their lives. Music becomes a mirror.

The music comes first. Final lyrics are usually written very close to recording the vocals.

I really like when the lyrics in the music have an interesting relationship between one another - where they contrast each other.

Frank [Zappa] was not a big fan of having lyrics, but sometimes he had things to say that lent themselves to lyrics.

Music is very transporting. I'll hear a song for the first time and I rarely listen to the lyrics. I picture that song playing as a soundtrack to a movie, or even just in the background of someone's life. This all sounds weird, but I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.

The music that I first fell in love with was American music, really. Nothing against British acts - I love them and will forever - but on the whole, it was the art of American storytelling in the kind of folk and blues lyrics that, if you scratch a little bit, there's a heartbreaking story there.

[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea for a story in my head, or few lines.

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.

Usually I go to the studio to write lyrics and compose music. I try to be a dad as much as possible at home.

I started writing music in a French way: more focused on lyrics than melody.

As a songwriter, I don't rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

The first time I heard 'White Man in Hammersmith Palais,' I loved the vulnerability in the music and the lyrics.

I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.

I'm very passionate about music and was excited to see that the majority of readers loved the inclusion of lyrics.

The art of sewing lyrics with the tune is very interesting as a music director.

Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.

How can music without any words make you think? I listen to jazz when I'm doing something else. I use it for background music, I don't just sit down and concentrate on it. Lyrics, words - that's what makes me think.

I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously.

I think music is an intuitive force. It's this beautiful wave that connects all of us and inspires us, and I think music has the ability - when you listen to a song, you're not immediately thinking about the lyrics or what's going on in the mind of the writer, you're feeling the song.

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.

To me, the lyrics mean more then the music, and that's the way it should always be.

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

I wanted to lift the aspects of the lyrics and imagery that I found sincerely powerful and touching, plus the amazing musical extremities, and make my own thing. That's what making music has always been for me. Synthesizing a nonexistent kind of music that I wish existed because I wanted to listen to it.

I usually write lyrics first, and then when I get home or close to any kind of instrument, I usually make a melody for those lyrics.

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 listen to music to try and focus or concentrate on emotional characters, which is quite common among actors. It might seem cheesy, but I particularly listen to Coldplay because I'm moved by their lyrics. But any music can help depending on the character and their mood.

I find most modern country virtually unlistenable. I can't relate to the music or the lyrics.

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.

I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.