I came from battling, knowing about the lyrics. All that's cool, but if you want people to love you, you have to talk to them about what they go through.
What makes a great song - you don't put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something.
I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin.
There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.
I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.
I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.
Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.
Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.
I'm terrible remembering lyrics. Before a tour, I have to remind myself. I have to go through the songs.
And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy.
In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of.
Muse’s creations are predominately lyrical often resulting in poetic sonnets and fairytale like art.
I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
Sometimes my lyrics may describe a situation that happened to a friend. Other times, I create a story from the ground up.
I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.
To go on the road and see people sing my own lyrics back to me is just fantastic.
When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story.
Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing.
I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
