Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victoria Beckham

We've still got the melodies, we've still got the nice 'strong girl' lyrics going on.

I am always getting ideas for song lyrics and keep a notebook handy. Nowadays, I take a laptop with me everywhere, because I have a stock of handwritten lyrics in it.

Harold Prince

Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.

Rachel Platten

Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean.

Emmylou Harris

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

Sarah McLachlan

Running is very rhythmic, and I have written a lot of lyrics while out running. It's a very musical exercise, and sometimes I like to sing when I run. Your whole body is doing the same thing.

Leon Bridges

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

Brendon Urie

When you have four people writing lyrics instead of one person, the lyrics are going to be a little more broad.

Bill Callahan

I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing 'Smog.'

Dave Gahan

To go on the road and see people sing my own lyrics back to me is just fantastic.

Wrong emphasis, wrong phrases. I was trying to make the lyrics more difficult, so they can work on a subconscious level.

Valerie June

Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.

Utada Hikaru

And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.

Richard Madden

I have two sisters, so we watched all of the Disney films. I think I still know the lyrics to them all.

I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.

Matt Berninger

Usually, writing lyrics for me is like bleeding drop by drop from the forehead.

Matt Berninger

A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.

Dan Hill

When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.

Natalie Cole

I think people just want to be popular. So they're going to write lyrics that are going to get your attention. You know, sometimes, they're a little graphic, and I don't think that's so necessary.

Jerome Kern

I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays.

Joe Johnson

Back then ... if you wanted the lyrics to a song you had to play it on the record and stop it, and then write it down, then play it again, then stop it,

Elizabeth Banks

I only know the lyrics to songs that I listened to between the ages of 11 and 15.

If there were any alterations of lyrics it was done by the NFL.

Adam Levine

All I needed to do was sing the lyrics that had already been written. I don't know those guys; they seem kind of kooky and crazy. I like their vibe.