Quotes About Music Lyrics

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.

Lisa Loeb

#4. 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

#5. If the music is amazing, you can get away with anything.

Brian Logan Dales

#6. How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.

Morrissey

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

Jonny Lang

#8. 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

#9. My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.

Morrissey

#10. 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

#11. Music; joy of the heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. There are more than enough
to fight and oppose;
why waste good time
fighting the people you like?

Morrissey

#13. And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea, but for now we are young, let us lay in the sun, and count every beautiful thing we can see ... Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all.

Jeff Mangum

#14. If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions.

John Lydon

#15. 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

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

Jenny Lewis

#17. So can you tell me exactly what 'freedom' means? If I am not free to be as twisted as I wanna be?

Disturbed

#18. You are the sun, and I'm the moon.
In your shadow I can shine.

Tokio Hotel

#19. I will never let you fall
I'll stand up with you forever
I'll be there for you through it all
Even if saving you sends me to heaven

Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

#20. The things I see every day inspire my sound and lyrics, like certain people and situations that stick out in my mind. There are also certain musicians I love whose music and styles inspire me.

Birdy

#21. Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.

Mika.

#22. 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

#23. Am I the reason you breathe
Or am I the reason you cry?

Saliva

#24. Even in the far future,
never forget the you of right now
Wherever you are right now,
you're just taking a break

BTS

#25. So if the ties that bind ever do come loose
Tie them in a knot like a hangman's noose
Cause I'll go to heaven or I'll go to hell
Before I'll see you with someone else.

The Band Perry

#26. Anything you say can and will be used against you, so only say my name.

Fall Out Boy

#27. Whoa, you got my head in the clouds
Whoa, you got me thinking out loud
The more you dream about me the more I believe
That nothing's ever out of reach
So dream, dream, dream

Miley Cyrus

#28. I can't read music and I'm crap at learning lyrics. Especially since the accident I have memory problems. I can't remember words, names, places.

Marc Almond

#29. I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.

Lorde

#30. I bet all I had on a thing called love; guess in the end it wasn't enough. And it's hard to watch you leave right now; I'm gonna have to learn to let you go somehow.

Carrie Underwood

#31. When I write lyrics, it's only when I'm angry or hurt or sad. So lyrically it's never really easy going. And the music is always really intense.

Henry Rollins

#32. Now who is the king of these lewd, ludicrous, lucrative lyrics; who could inherit the title, to put the youth in hysterics; using his music as spirit

Eminem

#33. It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music - my taste in chord progressions and melodies.

Zooey Deschanel

#34. Oh, I can't talk to you the way I've wanted to; I've been tellin' lies but I'll tell you the truth.
Darling, I'm tired and I should be leaving, leaving. You know I'm tired and I should be leaving, leaving tonight.

Richard Edwards

#35. That old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem to connect with it really well and in some ways, more so.

William Fitzsimmons

#36. A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.

Kailash Kher

#37. 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

#38. Todd and Tim [Tobias] write the music, and I come up with the melodies and lyrics. I call it the Ohio Rock Factory. Tim and Todd run the northern plant in Cleveland, and I've got the southern plant down here in Dayton. No tours permitted.

Robert Pollard

#39. We hate it when our friends become successful.

Morrissey

#40. My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.

Gary Wright

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

Bob Dylan

#42. I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

Paul Simon

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. Well you found us strength and solutions but I liked the tension
And not always knowing the answers when you're gonna lose it, you're gonna lose it.

Hayley Williams

#46. I miss the sound of your voice
And I miss the rush of your skin
And I miss the still of the silence
As you breathe out and I breathe in

Matt Nathanson

#47. To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.

Morrissey

#48. I know that my fans will probably learn a lot about me by listening to my music, if they really listen to the lyrics.

Ariana Grande

#49. I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.

Marc Almond

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

Brian Eno

#51. 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

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

Colleen Hoover

#53. I took your name when I took those vows
I meant 'em back then and I mean 'em right now.

The Band Perry

#54. Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.

John Legend

#55. There are some bad people on the rise;
they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives.

Morrissey

#56. Surf is that music which is entirely about evoking something. There's never any vocals, so it's not about the lyrics, it's about the reverb.

Stephin Merritt

#57. Music is also one of the great heart openers. Sometimes, you hear the lyrics of a song and you dance, laugh, smile, or perhaps even cry.

Michael Franti

#58. Music is breath of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#59. Sometimes we focus on the lyrics too much and forget to dance to the music.

Alexa Anderson

#60. I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.

Zooey Deschanel

#61. 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.

Eddie Murphy

#62. I've always been a fan of country music. It's America's music - I love the songs, love the lyrics.

Charles Koppelman

#63. When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.

Dinah Shore

#64. Roughly 90 percent of songs have mating as their central theme, and this holds true regardless of cultural setting or historical period.

Gad Saad

#65. One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

Stephen Sondheim

#66. My mind is killing me
- The Glass Child, Stuck In My Mind

Charlotte Eriksson

#67. When you are happy, you enjoy music, when you are sad, you understand lyrics

Frank Ocean

#68. I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.

Sebastian Bach

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

Miyavi

#70. I could never be your god
And I don't even think I want the job anymore

Stone Sour

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

Colin Meloy

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

Brian Eno

#73. 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

#74. Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions.

Shannon L. Alder

#75. The music, I think, is just as important as the lyrics; it portrays the emotion of the song. I play the kind of music that I want to listen to.

Courtney Barnett

#76. Nothing safe is worth the drive.

Taylor Swift

#77. 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

#78. I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.

Fetty Wap

#79. You don't like me, but you love me; either way, you're wrong.

Morrissey

#80. I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

Criss Jami

#81. You know I love to spend my mornings, like sunlight dancing on your skin

Rodney Crowell

#82. The voice sang on, "I am ready, I am ready, I am fine. I am fine, I am fine, I am fine." I played it again. I was not fine.

Kimberly Novosel

#83. 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

#84. We don't want to give people straight answers. We'd rather they question things for themselves.

Deborah Curtis

#85. Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass players - anyone in music can rise to make a major statement but in poetry there are only words to do the work. And they do sometimes have to sweat.

Nikki Giovanni

#86. The danger of these collaborations across disciplines is in having too strict of a division of labor - in my case, of getting stuck doing the music. When I make an album, I write music, I write lyrics, I come up with the visual design, etc. I get to do all of that stuff.

David Grubbs

#87. Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#88. I walked when I should have run
I ran when I should have walked
And don't I know it, don't I know it

Jamie Woon

#89. Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true.

Morrissey

#90. 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

#91. We're all made the same but then born to change. Which then don't make us the same.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#92. There's no magic for getting into the groove ... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

Phil Collins

#93. The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.

Elvis Costello

#94. You cannot taste a song
but you can feel the tune relishing your heart
where strings of music belong.

Munia Khan

#95. Down in Louisiana we call that Boogie Woogie!

Jerry Lee Lewis

#96. 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

#97. God, come down, if you're really there -
Well, you're the one who claims to care!

Morrissey

#98. 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

#99. Cause in you're eyes, I'd like to stay

Katy Perry

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

Dan Bejar