Bands Lyrics Quotes

#1. I think the whole concept behind lyrics is you better mean what you say, or you should like, become a storyteller. I mean, there's a lot of bands who are just storytellers, and then there are bands who actually have something valid to say. And the bands who have valid points are few and far between.

Kirk Hammett

#2. The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#3. The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.

Edmund Morgan

#4. For me, it is exciting to see a woman take a chance and wear something out of the ordinary.

Narciso Rodriguez

#5. This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.

Gary Sheffield

#7. Hugh Wilson made it so real and he took us and it was almost when he was directing it, the way he would do it was funnier than the way we did it. And I just developed a regard for him that was unbelievable.

Bubba Smith

#8. If you are living in a beautiful house surrounded by beautiful environment, you know not where to stay, inside or outside?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. The '60s was a magical time in the music business. So much creativity and talent. I think a lot of it came from the fact that we had grown up before rock n' roll. We listened to all the great songwriters and big bands, songs with great lyrics and melodies. I think that really influenced everybody.

Frankie Valli

#10. I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.

Yannis Philippakis

#11. I earned my place,
With the tidal waves.
I can't escape this feeling,
That something ain't right.
I called my name
As I crashed the gates,
Still I can't escape this feeling
That something ain't right.

All Time Low

#12. I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.

Duke Of Wellington

#13. When I published my first novel, 'Slammed,' I included lyrics at the beginning of each chapter from one of my favorite bands, The Avett Brothers. The overwhelmingly positive response from readers to those lyrics really surprised me.

Colleen Hoover

#14. Of course, no lyrics are ever unintentional, but I think bands like Wolf Parade and the Arcade Fire have a tendency to touch on big themes without really following through on them or tying them in to a particular logic.

Dan Bejar

#15. At first, many people infected with the zombie virus experienced similar symptoms to Ebola.

Andrew Cormier

#16. For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

Jim Capaldi

#17. I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about.

Marcus Mumford

#18. Bands that have positive lyrics that give people hope, I applaud them, you know I think we need to see more bands come out like that. I think it is great.

Michael Sweet

#19. Maybe I'm overcast. And maybe all my lucks washed down the drain.

Switchfoot

#20. I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.

Michael Azerrad

#21. Demographically speaking, young white people are not in the majority in this country; they're in the minority. My question is, if they're not the majority anymore, then what happens? How do things change? Or do they change at all?

Jose Antonio Vargas

#22. The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.

Orson Pratt

#23. At Google, they eat lunch on graph paper.

Robin Sloan

#24. The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, 'I'm swimming in a vortex of apathy.' I'm like, 'What?' I don't walk up to a friend and go 'That's a stylin' looking vortex of apathy you've got there pal. I was swimming up a river of deceit myself.'

Devin Townsend

#25. Well, I don't care for Paul Ryan's sound or his lyrics. He can like whatever bands he wants, but his guiding vision of shifting revenue more radically to the one percent is antithetical to the message of Rage.

Tom Morello