Top 100 Lyrics Music Quotes
#1. 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.
Charlie Sheen
#2. I have way too many songs that have music but don't have lyrics.
Jonny Lang
#3. My favorite way of working is if somebody gives me a piece of music, because I'm quite limited as a player, so it's my favorite thing if somebody gives me a piece of music, and then I can write lyrics and melodies.
Sinead O'Connor
#4. My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.
Morrissey
#5. 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.
Jay Watson
#6. Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you don't feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel you're making art.
Stephen Sondheim
#7. I find most modern country virtually unlistenable. I can't relate to the music or the lyrics.
Jenny Lewis
#8. So can you tell me exactly what 'freedom' means? If I am not free to be as twisted as I wanna be?
Disturbed
#9. I like to write music. And I think exploring with lyrics and figuring out how to make complete songs is fun. I think I have a take on it. I don't know if it's great, but it's an interesting take. It's original.
Stone Gossard
#10. 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
#11. There are some bad people on the rise;
they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives.
Morrissey
#12. Roughly 90 percent of songs have mating as their central theme, and this holds true regardless of cultural setting or historical period.
Gad Saad
#13. There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
Yanni
#14. We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.
Rick Wright
#15. I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.
Fetty Wap
#16. Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.
Stephen Sondheim
#17. Walking thru this graveyard, I realize times were never really hard. We live, we love, we let it go. The world ain't changed me at all.
Kevin Dalton
#18. Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.
Aloe Blacc
#19. There's no magic for getting into the groove ... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.
Phil Collins
#20. Eric Peters' music is at the top of what gets played around my house, in my car and while I am running. I am a big fan. He writes incredibly honest and poetic lyrics coupled with memorable pop melodies and I can think of no better combination.
Jill Phillips
#21. Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty out and let it come, and then the music spirits take over.
Joan Jett
#22. I took the sing from your song. I made a bed where you don't belong.
Ben Howard
#23. Don't get me wrong I'd never say never
'Cause though love can change the weather
No act of God can pull me away from you
Five For Fighting
#24. I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.
Chris Cornell
#25. For the life of me I cannot remember, what made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise. For the life of me I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins, we were merely freshmen.
The Verve Pipe
#26. At any given time I'm listening to the Cory Branan, Leonna Naess, Eve 6, the King's Noyse, Sean Paul, Green Day, the BoDeans, Buddy Holly, Nowell Sing We Clear ... the list goes on and on. But I rarely listen to music while I write. I start typing the lyrics.
Sarah Addison Allen
#27. I always wrote the music first, and the music gave me the mood and the lyrics were pretty much put in to give you a map, where that mood came from and where it's going. But my first love was really the music itself, and I guess I've gone back to that.
Billy Joel
#28. There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have humorous lyrics. Certainly with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and, if you look at country, Roger Miller and Jim Stafford.
Rick Moranis
#29. I've been worryin' that we all, live our lives, in the confines of fear
Ben Howard
#30. Doors music is not a simple kind of music. It's like the Bauhaus. It's clean and pure. Morrison's lyrics are psychologically deep. So for people to understand Doors music is certainly a testament to their intellects.
Ray Manzarek
#31. I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.
Obie Trice
#32. I got into songwriting because I'm not very good at communicating sometimes, just my true words, so music was always my way of expressing myself and being able to put things into lyrics that I couldn't say necessarily in my everyday life.
LIZ
#33. Maybe I'm overcast. And maybe all my lucks washed down the drain.
Switchfoot
#34. What about Monday? That could be our one day we look at things the same way, and wear funny shoes.
Kevin Dalton
#35. Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world.
Fanny Crosby
#36. Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
Beck
#38. Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes,
he never quite goes this low.
Morrissey
#39. The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop music, you've got to really listen hard to somebody who's doing a good melody and a good lyric.
Barry Manilow
#40. Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.
Morrissey
#41. Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.
Jason Robert Brown
#42. I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect.
Nellie McKay
#43. When hip-hop was born she had no commercial home, and was an invention of beautiful creativity. Born from a beautiful struggle, today she is mostly a 'ratchet' bitch spitting nonsense from her pimp's mansion.
T.F. Hodge
#44. I'd love to...but only with you.
Morrissey
#45. My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.
Gail Carson Levine
#46. As a songwriter, I don't rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
Ben Harper
#47. The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen to other people's point-of-view. Take in their work. Listen to the way they sing. Listen to the way they write lyrics. What they are trying to express.
Emily Haines
#48. Sometimes music isn't just a bunch of sounds and lyrics, sometimes it's more than that: a time machine ...
Alina Radoi
#49. Oh, fuck it, I'm a monster, I admit it!
Nick Cave
#50. Why don't you find out for yourself?
Then you'll see the glass, hidden in the grass.
Morrissey
#51. Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.
Paul McCartney
#52. I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music.
Rokia Traore
#53. I wish that I was looking into your eyes
Katy Perry
#54. Say somethin' if your feelin the vibe, say somethin' baby don't be so shy!
Austin Mahone
#55. Each song had a different way of coming about. In some, the music was written first while others it was the lyrics. We didn't want to overthink anything too much - we just wanted to, writing-wise, chuck out as many ideas as possible.
Elena Tonra
#56. I think what interests me the most is when the two things are developed at the same time, which certainly feels natural for the way of working when there is no dialogue. You sort of depend on the music to be that, especially when there's lyrics in the music.
Matthew Barney
#57. Don't leave it all unsaid,
somewhere in the wasteland of your head.
Morrissey
#58. I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.
Morrissey
#59. I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.
Sarah McLachlan
#60. I don't mind if you forget me.
Having learned my lesson,
I never left an impression on anyone.
Morrissey
#61. 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.
Juanes
#62. Well, God knows you're barely standing but you've got to carry this heavy load.
Joe Brooks
#63. Walt Disney was a great believer in the use of song to convey story. He was primarily a storyman & story-driven songs were his 'pets.' He always asked what was going on with the song - he hated 'singing heads.' He loved learning about character & motivation thru music & lyrics.
Richard Sherman
#64. Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.
Carly Simon
#65. I've stolen music before, I don't know anyone who hasn't. But if you're gonna do that, I want you to be able to have an opportunity to know the real lyrics because I really hate it when people put up wrong lyrics online.
Justin Vernon
#66. 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.
Sammy Hagar
#67. And my head told my heart
"Let love grow"
But my heart told my head
"This time no
This time no
Mumford & Sons
#69. I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.
Jello Biafra
#70. My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn't come across - the music was pretty.
Jewel
#71. Work It Harder Make It Better
Do It Faster, Makes Us stronger
More Than Ever Hour After
Our Work Is Never Over
-Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, lyrics and music by Daft Punk
Daft Punk
#72. This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.
Morrissey
#73. I'm not really good at writing sad sappy ballads. In terms of the lyrics not matching the vibe of the music, that's kind of the way my career has gone; everyone is a little confused about it all the time.
Mac DeMarco
#74. No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.
Jello Biafra
#75. Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.
Hunter Hayes
#76. Why wait any longer for the one you love
When he's standing in front of you
Bob Dylan
#78. In most of my films I write the music into the script. I'm listening to songs and lyrics that empower the themes of the film. There's a lot of Indigenous music that has not been heard widely and I love the idea of giving that music to the rest of the world.
Warwick Thornton
#81. Maybe the key to finding the perfect song is simply rewriting the lyrics.
Kandi Steiner
#82. I want to touch people's lives with my music and my lyrics.
Romeo Santos
#83. I have to decide whether I'm just laying down a groove, kind of a bed and canvas for the lyrics and music to live on, or trying to illustrate something in the lyrics.
Glenn Kotche
#84. When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so I strongly believe that it can be more powerful at times.
Tom DeLonge
#85. If life is a song and we are born with the lyrics, then it is up to us to create the music that fits!
Michelle Cooke
#86. How do I get better once I've had the best?
Katy Perry
#87. I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.
Thom Yorke
#89. I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
Barry White
#90. You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em
But you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em
Eminem
#91. I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world it will suck. I mean if the music wasn't important it would just be a poem.
Julian Cope
#92. When I drive to work, I listen to thuggish rap at a very loud volume, even though the lyrics are degrading to women and offend me to my core. I am mortified by my music choices.
Roxane Gay
#93. Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
Morrissey
#94. I could be anything but for the faults that I've acquired on my way.
Matchbox 20
#95. Yet the only girl who'd love him is his mother ... ' - A Girl Worth Fighting For (song)
David Zippel
#96. Come on you target for faraway laughter. Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
Pink Floyd
#97. It's odd to spend your vacation with someone else's music especially when you're alone. You're free to let loose, unobserved, but someone else has chosen the words you belt out in private, the rythms you can dance to like a fool.
Julia Glass
#98. Cause when I hear your name I can not stop cheesing
I love you so much that my heart stops beating when you're leaving
And I'm grieving and my heart starts bleeding
Life without you has no goddamn meaning
Various
#100. If the ties that bind ever do come loose
If forever ever ends for you
If that ring gets a little too tight
You might as well read me my last rights.
The Band Perry
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