Quotes about Lyrics
Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever have… redemption songs; redemption songs.
- Bob Marley
My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.
- Dolly Parton
I consider myself a lyrics guy.
- Mike Posner
I try to tell the truth in my lyrics; write good melodies and make hard beats. So, basically, I just combine hip-hop with melody. That's how I classify myself.
- Mike Posner
When we're in trouble, it's usually a line from a song that saves us. I wish it was sermons, but, I'm sorry, it's not. When you're in crisis, what comes to mind is 'O love that would not let me go.' You know?
- Gloria Gaither
To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it or get a great idea and you want to write it.
- Amy Grant
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
- Joseph Addison
I love co-writing. That whole process is a challenge in that good writers are pushing you.
- Lauren Daigle
I let Brel into my world. What I like about him is the simplicity of his language. It's not so simple to be simple.
- Stromae
Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.
- Dolly Parton
Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.
- Stephen Malkmus
I grew up on listening to, like, Mantronix and BDP and EPMD and Kool G Rap and Ultramag and Public Enemy and Fat Boys and Run DMC and a lot of those early records, those Rubin-era records. Those were always snare- and stab-heavy records.
- El-P