Understand The Lyrics Quotes

#1. 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

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

Eljumar Alesna

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

Christopher Moore

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

Madeline Kahn

#7. 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

#8. When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.

Edna O'Brien

#9. If we succeed without sacrifice, it's because someone sacrificed for us.

Denis Waitley

#10. I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.

Larry Gelbart

#11. 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

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

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#13. 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

#14. I don't like to feel so crazy about someone," he said. "I don't like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person.

Gabrielle Zevin

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. It's service, not status, that counts.

Neal A. Maxwell

#20. I was really sick and I walked outside of the bus and realised; oh no I'm not allowed to be sick. I'm not allowed to say; sorry no I can't pose with you for a photo because I'm sick. I am a super human now, or I have to be one.

Katy Perry

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

Frank Sinatra

#22. The fueling of anti-Turkish sentiment in Europe is resulting in an anti-European, indiscriminate nationalism in Turkey.

Orhan Pamuk

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

Bob Dylan

#24. That's another piece of advice: Don't go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you're a doctor - then go to college.

Adam DeVine

#25. Reading is a pleasurable paradise.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. 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

#27. I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is getting a lot of focus. It'll pass. The focus will be on something else. It'll shift. It always does. And that seems just fine.

Suzanne Collins

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

Frank Ocean

#29. I'm not a true vegan.

Anthony Kiedis

#30. Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

Honore De Balzac

#31. 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

#32. That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

Steve King