Complete - Yourself! Others may only enhance your completeness.
Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.
I’m lyrically illiterate. Actually, more accurately, I can’t read music.
My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.
The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.
I've always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it's great when you can do that - be succinct and get the message across in a simple, clear idea.
If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.
In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.
'Elect the Dead' is a rock record that takes you on a journey with different types of genres integrated, different lyrical themes digested, and many fun and colorful moments to enjoy.
I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.
Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words.
When a song came on the radio that I wanted to learn, my mother would quickly write down the lyrics for me. Soon after, I would be singing it.
It started out with a kiss How did it end up like this? It was only a kiss Read more: The Killers - Mr. Brightside Lyrics | MetroLyrics
I don't really plan what comes out of my mouth, and that's what makes most of my lyrics entertaining.
I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.
It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.
I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we sang along to the lyrics. I was making $12 an hour.
Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.
See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.
I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.
I sing 'All Apologies' with my own lyrics. People want to sing along, but then, oops, they realize it's a different story.
