Best Song Lyrics Quotes

#1. The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.

David Lehman

#2. Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true,
But you and I know what this world can do.
So let's make our steps clear so the other may see.
And I'll wait for you ... should I fall behind wait for me.

Bruce Springsteen

#3. I don't have any favourite lyrics. Honestly, all of them I love 'em to death - it's the same with songs. I don't have just one favourite lyric, I love them all.

ASAP Rocky

#4. The last song by Lady Antebellum was "Just a Kiss." The lyrics talked about how they only needed a kiss - nothing more - because this love might be the kind that lasted forever.

Karen Kingsbury

#5. So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of 'The Most Offensive Song Ever' with lyrics intact.

Trey Parker

#6. I think that a great song needs the full package. I think that a great song needs everything from lyrics, to melody, to music, and it needs to be interesting and it needs take you in and swallow you and swish you around, and then regurgitate you back in better form.

William Beckett

#7. It's not worth it!
It's not workin'!
You wanted it to be picture perfect!

Thousand Foot Krutch

#8. A new song begins, and in the dark, we listen, letting lyrics about love and suffering and hope fall over us.

Autumn Doughton

#9. It was my kind of song: fast and fun and exuberant,the lyrics tumbling out almost faster than my ears could follow them,some times rhyming,sometimes not ...

Anthony Rapp

#10. I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes.

Neil Peart

#11. Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

Regina Spektor

#12. There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief ...

Bob Dylan

#13. So close
I can almost touch you
But then you're gone
Like mist around the edge...

Staci Hart

#14. So when your hopes on fire,
But you know your desire,
Don't hold a glass over the flame,
Don't let your heart grow cold,
I will call you by name,
I will share your road.

Mumford & Sons

#15. A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones ... " and that's it.

Alex Scally

#16. Let's swim to the moon
Let's climb through the tide
Surrender to the waiting worlds
That lap against our side.

Jim Morrison

#17. When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

Alanis Morissette

#18. Since I write the lyrics, I don't want to be pigeonholed into a person who's out there preaching these songs. If you read the lyrics, there isn't a story being set up for you. You have to use your imagination to get the best out of the songs - if you choose to do that.

Linda Perry

#19. You can go a hundred miles a second
Don't have to drive no lousy cab
Got everything you want and more man
And the King picks up the tab
You walk around on streets of gold all day
And you never have to listen
To what these customers say and I know ...

Marc Cohn

#20. Yeah, you can be the greatest
You can be the best
You can be the King Kong banging on your chest

The Script

#21. Hoping for the best is hoping nothing happens

Taking Back Sunday

#22. Here are some funny songs, there are some songs that we didn't even remember. I heard this song that Ringo is singing, I still don't know the title of it, but it is got the most amazing lyrics and it's a quite a good production. And quite a good tun

George Harrison

#23. Sometimes I start with lyrics - rarely - but sometimes I might have an idea for some lyrics that I wanna say. I write them down and figure out how to use that in a melody to write a song.

Leon Bridges

#24. Blot out the moon,
Pull down the stars.
Love in the dark, for we're for the dark
So soon, so soon.

Jean Rhys

#25. I have way too many songs that have music but don't have lyrics.

Jonny Lang

#26. If I said in one of my songs that my English teacher wanted to have sex with me in junior high, all I'm saying, is that I'm not gay, you know? People confuse the lyrics for me speaking my mind. I don't agree with that lifestyle, but if that lifestyle is for you, then it's your business.

Eminem

#27. Well you know
that I'm cold
black on constellations gold
and you know
that your soul's
black top under lacing
won't let it go

Pierce The Veil

#28. Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.

Alanis Morissette

#29. A lot of the lyrics I write involve images that just swing the song in a way that feels really good to me and there isn't a literal explanation. They're not riddles for the listener to solve.

Matt Berninger

#30. But
You
Don't
Know
What
It's
Like.

Pierce The Veil

#31. I know something you don't ... and that is ... I'M NOT WEARING ANY UNDERWEAR! We're gonna get sexy for a minute!

Gerard Way

#32. Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire

Marilyn Manson

#33. 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.

Lizz Wright

#34. My task is set before me, girl
My mission clear and true
There'll be black knights and dragons, girl
But I will always come for you ...

Emme Rollins

#35. I am very serious about my baby.

Morrissey

#36. You can find me in the melodies, the chord progressions, the song style and structure. The lyrical places you fine me most are in the lyrics that 'show' more than 'tell.' I like to describe what the listener is seeing and let them make up the middle rather than telling them.

Kristian Bush

#37. A white feather drops at my feet, and I know you're guiding me to where I'm meant to be - Angel Wings

Marie Symeou

#38. Funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story

Sarah Dessen

#39. Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement.

Red Hot Chili Peppers

#40. I always hated...all sad songs. I thought they made happy people miserable. Now I think I understand them better. Bards write them because they can't hold them back. Sadness has got to flow out or it gets stuck and turns bitter.

Jonathan Renshaw

#41. I find I always throw limbs here and there in my lyrics. I kind of put my physical self into the songs.

Martina Sorbara

#42. I want people to listen to the lyrics of each song and absorb the music fully before they look at me and make a judgment about what they think my music will or should sound like.

Darren Fletcher