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Every single thing I've done has made me who I am today. The only thing I would take back is hurting the people that I love, and the people who I love have already read my lyrics and heard my apologies. But the rest of the world, I don't need to apologize to them. My life doesn't have anything to do with the rest of the world.
Scott Weiland
Life
Love
Today
Me
People
World
Made
Rest
My Life
Single
Every
Back
Lyrics
Would
Hurting
Only
Take
Read
Am
Single Thing
Heard
Done
The Only Thing
Anything
Them
Apologize
Apology
Who
Thing
Need
Every Single Thing
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
Jimi Hendrix
Science
Key
Rest
Imagination
Lyrics
Science Fiction
Fiction
Little
Painted
I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.
Freddie Mercury
Superior
Think
Lyrics
Melodies
I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make the songs relatable in a way; I want to keep melodies pretty simple and the lyrics open-ended so that people could maybe relate them to their own life in different ways. Something for everybody to have a piece of.
Mac DeMarco
Life
Music
Time
Myself
People
Simple
Own
Relate
Everybody
Lyrics
Way
Melodies
Ways
Pretty
Something
Could
Write
Songs
Open-Ended
Piece
Make
Trying
Same
Maybe
Same Time
Different
Want
Interested
Them
Keep
Different Ways
Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.
Quincy Jones
Good
You
King
Lyrics
Melody
Out
Good Shape
Factor
Shape
Written
Accompanying
Forget
Front
Just
Rewritten
Really
Appear
Ever
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.
Alison Krauss
Beautiful
Truth
Mouth
Lyrics
Melody
Out
Kind
Something
Message
Coming
Might
Your
Appealing
Whole
Thing
The emotion of a song's lyrics has always been what grabs me deeply.
Bill Medley
Me
Song
Lyrics
Emotion
Always
Been
Deeply
If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.
Bruce Springsteen
Beautiful
Mathematics
Great
You
Simple
Incredibly
Lyrics
Sung
Records
Beatle
Retain
Well
Beautifully
Still
Listen
Where
Them
Elegance
Elegant
Why
Played
Earliest
I was a very romantic, overly dramatic young lady, which served me well as a songwriter. Especially as someone who had to focus on lyrics and melody, because if you're a dramatic and romantic person, lyrics come easy, and you turn every single short-term relationship into the biggest 'Romeo-and-Juliet' story ever.
Jane Wiedlin
Me
Relationship
You
Focus
Single
Young
Every
Dramatic
Lyrics
Melody
Easy
Someone
Had
Songwriter
Come
Well
Because
Overly
Very
Person
Lady
Romantic
Biggest
Story
Which
Short-Term
Young Lady
Turn
Who
Ever
Served
I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.
Leonard Cohen
Myself
Singing
Jazz
Group
Chanting
Lyrics
Poetry
Never
Liked
Read
Readings
Really
Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.
Lou Reed
Music
You
Challenge
Whatever
Lyrics
Out
Come
Grab
Preconceived
Listener
Crashing
Should
Your
Notions
Speakers
I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.
Midge Ure
Music
Matter
Lyrics
Once
Musical
Atmosphere
About
Write
Come
Make
Subject
Subject Matter
Done
Want
Then
Create
Base
Start
Last
I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.
Obie Trice
Music
Lyrics
Write
Beats
Studios
Go
Get
At any given time I'm listening to the Cory Branan, Leonna Naess, Eve 6, the King's Noyse, Sean Paul, Green Day, the BoDeans, Buddy Holly, Nowell Sing We Clear... the list goes on and on. But I rarely listen to music while I write. I start typing the lyrics.
Sarah Addison Allen
Music
Time
Day
Listening
King
Lyrics
Typing
Rarely
Given
Write
Clear
Buddy
Buddy Holly
Sing
Green
Green Day
Goes
List
Any
Listen
Any Given Time
While
Paul
Holly
Sean
Eve
Start
When I sing a tune, the lyrics are important to me. Most of the standard lyrics I know well. And as soon as I hear an arrangement, I get ideas, kind of like blowing a horn. I guess I never sing a tune the same way twice.
Sarah Vaughan
Me
Important
Guess
Lyrics
Way
Kind
Horn
Never
Soon
Like
Ideas
Know
Most
Sing
Well
Arrangement
Hear
Get
Blowing
Same
Tune
Standard
Twice
With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music - you can't do that in jazz. You can't do that with classical.
Serj Tankian
Music
You
Power
Reflect
Jazz
Lyrics
Classical
Through
Generate
Rock
Rock Music
Intensity
Behind
Intentions
Really
Your
Amount
It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of the left hemisphere can leave people with no articulate speech other than the ability to swear, spout cliches and song lyrics.
Steven Pinker
People
Song
Words
Other
Lyrics
Strokes
Ability
Taboo
Entire
Removal
Likely
Massive
Cliches
Leave
Surgical
Brain
Left
Than
Articulate
Stored
Swear
Hemisphere
Right
Speech
In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.
Maya Angelou
Work
Saying
I Am
Better
Stronger
Lyrics
Alike
Ourselves
All My Work
I Write
More
Poetry
Imperative
Write
Allow
Prose
Am
Encounter
Than
Essays
May
Human
Maybe
Human Beings
Movies
Much
Many
Appear
Beings
Defeats
I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also like taking a great melody and putting lyrics into it.
A. R. Rahman
Love
Great
Lyrics
Way
Melody
Unpredictable
Could
Shape
Taking
Putting
Like
Also
Very
Tune
I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
Abbie Cornish
Writing
Lyrics
Everywhere
Paper
Pieces
Always
Many
Stray
I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
Adam Jones
Lyrics
Solos
I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.
Adam Rich
Me
People
Lyrics
Hopefully
Some
Something
Write
Take
Had
Were
Wanted
Them
Meaning
Meaningful
A song's lyrics can't be held culprit for the overall change in society.
Adnan Sami
Change
Song
Society
Lyrics
Overall
Culprit
Held
Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.
Ahmet Ertegun
Music
Time
Soul
Rights
Other
Lyrics
Possible
Rights Movement
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
About
Soul Music
Came
Very
Same
Same Time
Movement
Influenced
Songs with simple lyrics really take off in Irish nightclubs.
Aisling Bea
Simple
Lyrics
Take
Songs
Off
Irish
Really
Nightclubs
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
Al Stewart
Heavy Metal
Words
Tribal
Rest
Three
Country
Else
Lyrics
Rap
Kind
Folk
Some
Per
About
Only
Beat
Attention
Most
Metal
Audience
Rock
Sound
Cult
Off
Western
Historical
Heavy
Cent
Interested
Pays
Thing
Image
Two
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