Quotes about Lyrics
Sex and violence, he thinks now. A lot of the songs were about that. We didn't even notice. We thought it was art.
- Margaret Atwood
It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, 'What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?'
- Malala Yousafzai
Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.
- John Milton
I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.
- Reba McEntire
I'm a big hip hop fan.
- Jonah Hill
A lot of my philosophies came from sheet music. 'Some Day My Prince Will Come,' or 'Blue Skies Smiling at Me' - they were very uplifting, wholesome lyrics, and I really believed those words when I sang them.
- Judith Durham
Life is a song to me.
- Dolly Parton
Sweet home AlabamaWhere skies are so blueSweet home AlabamaLord, I'm coming home to you.
- Anonymous
I like country, and I like some classic rock, too.
- Kyle Larson
I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.
- Miguel
Street raps have to be masculine.
- MC Ren
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were too mature for my age!
- Sabrina Claudio