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When you play a show and you see people singing your lyrics back to, you feel as if they do know you.
Orianthi
You
People
Singing
Back
Lyrics
See
Feel
Know
Your
Show
Play
Whether my lyrics are about love or something else, I always make sure I'm connecting with my fans, and to see their support is definitely a motivation.
Ozuna
Love
Fans
Else
Lyrics
Definitely
See
About
Something
Something Else
Support
Make
Sure
Always
Motivation
Whether
Connecting
You've got to make sure that you don't have an airbrushed picture making you look like a 15-year-old cherub when your lyrics suggest otherwise.
Paolo Nutini
You
Picture
Otherwise
Lyrics
Like
Look
Make
Sure
Got
Making
Your
Suggest
I'm a great believer in not over-thinking lyrics. You might become technically better as a songwriter, but you lose what originally made your songs great.
Paul Stanley
Great
You
Better
Technically
Made
Become
Lose
Great Believer
Lyrics
Songs
Songwriter
Might
Your
Originally
Believer
When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've flipped it.
Perfume Genius
Music
First
Lyrics
Wilder
Kind
Wrote
Because
Got
Making
Flipped
Now
Started
I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.
Peter Frampton
Myself
Looking
Lyrics
Say
About
Write
Inward
Used
Painful
There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.
Phil Collins
Music
Sometimes
First
Lyrics
Magic
Come
Banging
Getting
Just
Groove
Away
You have to find a sound that reflects what our souls feel like inside, how our bodies actually feel. That's why we made our own beats. We couldn't find a producer who could give us the feeling to match our lyrics.
Prodigy
You
Made
Feeling
Own
Our
Lyrics
Find
Inside
Give
Could
Beats
Feel
Like
Match
Souls
How
Sound
Reflects
Us
Producer
Bodies
Who
Why
Actually
I think the sound of 'The Infamous' came naturally from our lifestyle and some of the criminal things we were doing. We always rap about what we're living, and to put a beat to lyrics like those is hard.
Prodigy
Living
Think
Criminal
Our
Lyrics
Those
Rap
Some
About
Beat
Lifestyle
Put
Like
Always
Sound
Doing
Came
Were
Infamous
Hard
Naturally
Things
The fact that I'm shouting that I have Gangnam style makes people crack up. Imagine if Brad Pitt was singing the song - would it be funny? A twist is important when it comes to writing lyrics.
Psy
Funny
People
Song
Writing
Important
Singing
Style
Lyrics
Would
Fact
Makes
Brad
Brad Pitt
Up
Crack
Pitt
Shouting
Twist
Imagine
When I wrote the lyrics, melodies, and the first themes of 'Serendipity,' I tried to come up with some rare things you find in life, something very special, like the calico, three-striped cat; things that have extraordinary meanings in people's lives.
RM
Life
You
People
Rare
First
Extraordinary
Lyrics
Melodies
Tried
Find
Some
Something
Cat
Come
Like
Wrote
Up
Very
Themes
Meanings
Special
Serendipity
Lives
Things
I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
Rachel Platten
Life
Music
Fight
Song
Writing
First
Lost
Lyrics
Music Video
Paper
Bit
Possibilities
Throwing
Writing Process
True
Journals
Like
True Life
Felt
None
Got
Bed
Verse
Where
Different
Process
Little
Little Bit
Them
Video
Really
Moment
Filling
Right
My album is called 'Zero to Infinity' and none of my songs are going to have cheap, dirty lyrics. Every song, in a way, is a women empowerment song. Every song, even if it's a dance track, you'll be dancing on it, but it's the right thing.
Raftaar
You
Women
Song
Dance
Every
Lyrics
Dancing
Right Thing
Way
Dirty
Songs
Cheap
Track
Empowerment
None
Infinity
Going
The Right Thing
Even
Zero
Right
Thing
Album
My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
Randy Newman
Music
People
Joke
Plead
Lyrics
Say
Guilty
High
Would
Tried
About
Eccentric
Eccentricity
Something
Bland
Factor
Always
Often
Irritation
Prefer
Grounds
When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.
Ray LaMontagne
Truth
Guitar
Lyrics
Melody
Bits
Bits And Pieces
Drives
Pick
Pieces
Up
Storytelling
I won't be the kind of artist speaking in riddles all the time - it will be lyrics that make sense the moment I say them.
Rex Orange County
Time
Will
Sense
Lyrics
Say
Kind
Make
Artist
Them
Speaking
Moment
Riddles
I was, like, 12 or 13; the first hip hop song I tried to rapping to was Macklemore's 'Thrift Shop,' and my English was so bad, but learning to rap to different songs really helped me with my pronunciation, and looking at the lyrics on Rap Genius and stuff like that.
Rich Brian
Me
Learning
Song
Genius
First
Looking
Lyrics
Rap
Hop
Bad
Tried
Rapping
Thrift
Songs
Stuff
Like
Hip
Hip-Hop
Shop
Different
Really
English
Helped
I have two sisters, so we watched all of the Disney films. I think I still know the lyrics to them all.
Richard Madden
Think
Films
Lyrics
Know
Still
Sisters
Them
Disney
Watched
Two
There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have humorous lyrics. Certainly with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and, if you look at country, Roger Miller and Jim Stafford.
Rick Moranis
Music
You
Long
Invention
Country
Humorous
Jim
Lyrics
Frank
Frank Zappa
Kinds
Long Tradition
Look
Genres
Mothers
Tradition
Roger
Certainly
Zappa
Miller
I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics.
Rick Wright
Words
Lyrics
Moore
Dressed
Only
Wrote
Nonsense
Came
Tunes
Them
Then
Sang
We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.
Rick Wright
Music
Great
You
Song
Example
Half
Whatever
Elton
Elton John
Lyrics
Out
John
Compose
Give
He
Great Song
Talent
Great Talent
Hour
Like
For Example
Make
Him
Makes
Questions
Very
Worked
Your
Hard
Including
Suit
Sometimes when I'm writing lyrics, it's a very loose train of thought, and wherever that takes me, I let it flow.
Rob Halford
Me
Writing
Sometimes
Thought
Lyrics
Takes
Loose
Very
Train
Wherever
Flow
When I write lyrics for Priest, I'm writing them for Priest. I'm not writing them for me.
Rob Halford
Me
Writing
Lyrics
Write
Priest
Them
I'm definitely still putting effort into my lyrics, for them to be emotional and tell a story.
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
Lyrics
Definitely
Tell
Emotional
Putting
Still
Effort
Story
Them
Why is it that I can remember so easily the lyrics to the opening theme song of 'Gilligan's Island?' Why do I remember these trivial things, and I can't remember the names of important collaborators?
Robert Lepage
Song
Remember
Important
Lyrics
Collaborators
Easily
Trivial
Opening
Names
Island
Theme
Theme Song
Why
Things
You would find in a lot of Zep stuff that the riff was the juggernaut that careered through and I worked the lyrics around this.
Robert Plant
You
Lyrics
Would
Find
Through
Stuff
Around
Lot
Worked
Riff
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