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Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.
Michael Eric Dyson
Best
Joy
Exhausted
Reflect
Sense
Lyrics
Strive
Hop
Must
Seductive
Features
Never
Beats
Scholarship
Soulful
Hip
Hip-Hop
Intelligent
Offering
Same
Sitting
Samples
Form
Rhythms
Most times, lyrics are the last thing I listen to, being a musician.
Michael McDonald
Lyrics
Musician
Most
Times
Listen
Being
Thing
Last
One of my big inspirations was Chuck Berry, and his playing was always about the rhythm and the lyrics. So I've always been that way in my playing, really.
Mick Ralphs
Big
Chuck
Lyrics
Chuck Berry
Way
Berry
About
Inspirations
Always
Been
His
Rhythm
Really
Playing
Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.
Mika
Music
Lyrics
Everything
Draw
Out
Visual
Write
Read
Aural
Very
Much
On 'Check Your Head' and 'Ill Communication,' most of the lyrics are much more, 'OK, you take that, and I'll say that' - they're split up.
Mike D
You
Communication
Lyrics
Say
OK
More
Take
Split
Head
Check
Most
Up
Much
Your
Ill
I wrote all the lyrics on 'Good Vibrations' and most of them in 'Kokomo.' 'Kokomo' was extremely popular and fun to sing - it's probably one of the bigger sing-along songs in our show. But then 'Help Me Rhonda,' 'Surfin' USA' and 'California Girls' and 'I Get Around' and 'Fun, Fun, Fun' are great songs as well.
Mike Love
Good
Great
Me
Girl
Our
Lyrics
Extremely
Songs
Great Songs
Most
Sing
Wrote
California
Well
Around
Get
Vibrations
Bigger
Them
Then
USA
Show
Help
Fun
Popular
When they're singing the guitar lines of songs in South America? Never heard that before. And in Canada, when they're singing all of the lyrics to every song - that blows me away. I don't know all the lyrics to every song.
Mike McCready
Me
Song
Guitar
Singing
Before
Every
Lyrics
Never
Songs
Know
Heard
Lines
South
South America
Canada
America
Blows
Away
I write lyrics based on music, on a musical flow, and what sounds good at the time.
Mike Patton
Music
Time
Good
Lyrics
Musical
Write
Sounds
Based
Flow
I have no desire to write lyrics with Adrenaline Mob.
Mike Portnoy
Lyrics
No Desire
Adrenaline
Write
Mob
Desire
It took me a long time to stumble upon a sound, and I figured out I wanted to kinda sing rapper's lyrics.
Mike Posner
Time
Me
Rapper
Long
Long Time
Stumble
Took
Lyrics
Out
Kinda
Sing
Sound
Wanted
Figured
I consider myself a lyrics guy.
Mike Posner
Myself
Consider
Lyrics
Guy
I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7. And for some reason I can't add lyrics to it.
Miley Cyrus
Day
Guitar
Add
Back
Lyrics
Melody
Some
Had
Since
Learned
How
Reason
Play
Actually
I first bought a Buffy Sainte-Marie record when I was 12, and her music has always remained with me. In the 1960s, as a political activist, Buffy's lyrics were fearless, and I'm very grateful for all the risks that she took.
Morrissey
Music
Me
Risks
Grateful
Political
First
Took
Lyrics
Record
Fearless
Remained
Bought
She
Buffy
Always
Were
Very
Activist
Her
Not playing guitar on 'World On Fire' gave me additional time to fine-tune lyrics and melodies, which improved the songs in the end. I'm very happy with how it turned out.
Myles Kennedy
Time
Me
Happy
World
Guitar
Fire
Gave
Additional
Lyrics
Melodies
Out
Songs
How
End
Very
Improved
In The End
Which
Turned
Playing
I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.
Namie Amuro
People
Communicate
Try
Listening
Nervous
Singing
Everyone
Lyrics
Silent
More
Well
Fallen
Get
Moved
Meaning
Meaning Of
Then
Really
Even
'Manu' is one of the best albums. The climax song will be a trump card for all break-up songs. Everybody will talk about the language of the lyrics.
Nani
Best
Song
Language
Will
Everybody
Lyrics
About
Songs
Talk
Climax
Trump
Card
Albums
Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.
Nate Ruess
Great
People
Great Things
Become
Down
Nowadays
Think
Lyrics
About
Something
Given
Like
Until
Reaching
Up
Just
Want
Anymore
Happening
Us
Really
Things
Started
Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.
Naturi Naughton
Music
You
Song
Singing
Own
Stage
Every
Lyrics
About
Purpose
Emotional
Performing
Learned
Audience
Very
Get
Where
Much
Your
Connect
Connecting
Chance
Starting
Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.
Neil Diamond
Life
Great
Morning
Me
Song
Perspective
Guess
Lyrics
Slightly
Joni Mitchell
Partial
Because
Chelsea
Mitchell
Different
Different Perspective
Show
Her
I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes.
Neil Peart
You
Together
Song
Made
Lyrics
Minutes
Guy
Thrown
Written
Along
Like
Obviously
Were
Up
Five
Just
I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect.
Nellie McKay
Love
Music
Good
You
Writing
Words
Think
Dancers
Lyrics
Worry
Must
About
Perfect
Write
Without
Always
Frustrating
I think for an artist it's really important to have experiences, and I've had a lot of those. It's definitely inspired my lyrics and my style, even down to what I wear.
Neon Hitch
Important
Style
Down
Think
Lyrics
Those
Definitely
Wear
Inspired
Had
Lot
Artist
Experiences
Really
Even
I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.
Nikki Sixx
Music
Song
Writing
Passion
Believe
Addicted
Lyrics
Outcome
Concept
Get
Behind
I sing 'All Apologies' with my own lyrics. People want to sing along, but then, oops, they realize it's a different story.
Nina Hagen
People
Own
Lyrics
My Own
Along
Sing
Different
Want
Story
Realize
Then
Apology
Different Story
As 'Dilbar' has become a huge hit internationally, including Middle East, we have taken the song and re-composed it, written Arabic and Moroccan lyrics, and we recorded, with me singing with Fnaire.
Nora Fatehi
Me
Song
Singing
Become
Lyrics
East
Arabic
Recorded
Taken
Written
Huge
Hit
Middle
Middle East
Including
Internationally
There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.
Nuno Bettencourt
You
Song
Writing
Changes
Lyrics
Melody
Facets
Part
Studio
Put
Go
Sitting
Where
Clothing
Room
Then
Sentiments
Your
Two
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