Understand Lyrics Quotes

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

Frank Ocean

#2. When you're happy,you enjoy the music.But,when you're sad,you understand the lyrics.

Eljumar Alesna

#3. I'm not bashing people who write songs that are just 'get on the dance floor and party party', I understand why people need those songs too, but I don't really write lyrics like that.

William Beckett

#4. I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

John Mayer

#5. I'm sorry I don't understand where all of these is coming from
I thought that we were fine
-Just Give Me A Reason

Nate Ruess

#6. When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.

Dexter Gordon

#7. 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

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

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#9. I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

Stephen Sondheim

#10. When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don't understand, the clash between the voices in my head and the song can be very disorienting.

Daniel Alarcon

#11. I realized that, for me, great records always moved me with the lyrics and the melodies. And so I said, 'I think I can do it now,' 'cause I found a team of people who understand I didn't want a record that was 'drop it, pop it, shake it' just 'cause I can dance.

Laurieann Gibson

#12. Tonight the song you always despised strides from the jukebox full-bodied and you hear the lyrics for the first time, understand the lyrics for the first time after all these years. This new you with an older soul. Now it's your favorite. All this time singing the wrong words.

Colson Whitehead

#13. At times, it could be a bit difficult to understand everything that's being said when just listening, but I wanted the lyrics to be the first impression.

Frank Iero

#14. Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?

Christopher Moore

#15. What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard?

Frank Sinatra

#16. Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Bob Dylan

#17. 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

#18. 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