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I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.
Thom Yorke
Music
Great
You
People
Political
Language
Great Deal
Think
Back
Lyrics
Out
Some
Spit
Absorb
Put
Mainstream
Mainstream Media
Since
Deal
Loosely
Understand
Access
Maybe
Media
I have this guitar on which I occasionally kill time making up rock n' roll lyrics.
Thomas Pynchon
Time
Guitar
Lyrics
Occasionally
Rock
Making
Making Up
Rock-N-Roll
Up
Roll
Which
I love good beats and good lyrics. I'm pretty open.
Tika Sumpter
Love
Good
Lyrics
Pretty
Open
Beats
I just do what I gotta do and try to show people I can write some funny lyrics and play piano, and hopefully that'll make them dig further. I really believe in my form. That's why I haven't done a lot of telly, and I'm not a regular on any panel shows, and I'm not in a sitcom or all those things.
Tim Minchin
Funny
People
Try
Believe
Dig
Panel
Lyrics
Further
Those
Hopefully
Telly
Some
Write
Piano
Make
Gotta
Lot
Sitcom
Any
Done
Just
Form
Them
Really
Regular
Show
Show People
Shows
Why
Play
Things
It was - I'm very didactic in my lyrics, but I've always been drawn to mock my own emotions, and so I write this very lyric-heavy stuff, which suits theater and comedy much more than it suits pop.
Tim Minchin
Emotions
Suits
Comedy
Own
Lyrics
Drawn
My Own
More
Write
Stuff
Always
Been
Very
Mock
Than
Didactic
Which
Theater
Much
Pop
I must have written 15 lyrics for 'The Lion King,' and only five or six were used. Some were scenes that disappeared, some were earlier versions of songs that didn't work, or else the characters changed.
Tim Rice
Lion
Work
King
Changed
Else
Lyrics
Characters
Must
Some
Only
Scenes
Songs
Written
Disappeared
Were
Versions
Five
Lion King
Six
Used
Earlier
I like to write in fairly everyday language - I've always tried to write lyrics that, if people would speak the words, it wouldn't sound like a song.
Tim Rice
People
Song
Words
Speak
Language
Everyday
Lyrics
Would
Tried
Write
Like
Fairly
Always
Sound
I like country music. Sometimes I'll just type in 'country' on Pandora and listen. I really like the passion in the lyrics.
Tink
Music
Sometimes
Passion
Country
Pandora
Type
Lyrics
Country Music
Like
Listen
Just
Really
I'm writing a musical. I am. I was able to buy the rights to 'The Preacher's Wife,' which starred Whitney Houston... I'm writing a whole new score and all the lyrics for it.
Tituss Burgess
Buy
Rights
Writing
Wife
Lyrics
Musical
Able
New
Houston
Am
Score
Preacher
Which
Whitney
Whitney Houston
Whole
Starred
It's no longer necessary to slave over the vocals. I don't sing the lyrics until I write them, and singing is the very last thing I do. I record the entire track, and then I worry about lyrics and vocals. The music will suggest where the words are going to a certain extent.
Todd Rundgren
Music
Words
Will
Singing
Lyrics
Worry
Record
Entire
About
Vocals
Write
Longer
Over
Until
Sing
Track
Very
Going
Where
Them
Then
Certain
Certain Extent
Thing
Necessary
Extent
Suggest
Last
Slave
You might remember me from Eminem's rap lyrics.
Tom Green
Me
You
Remember
Lyrics
Rap
Eminem
Remember Me
Might
When I was 15 or 16 playing in groups, we used to sit in the car and try to write the lyrics down as a song was playing, and we'd assign each person a verse, you know: 'I'm going to do the first one. You go for the second one.' And then sometimes you'd wait an hour for it to come on again so you could finish it up.
Tom Petty
You
Song
Sometimes
Wait
Try
Car
First
Sit
Down
Lyrics
Finish
Could
Write
Come
Hour
Know
First One
Go
Verse
Up
Person
Going
Again
Then
Used
Groups
Each
Assign
Second
Playing
Music doesn't have to have lyrics; it doesn't have to be a particular type of music - it has the ability to bring out really strong and hopefully good emotional reactions in people.
Tom Scholz
Music
Good
People
Strong
Type
Lyrics
Out
Hopefully
Ability
Emotional
Particular
Reactions
Really
Bring
The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work. I'll sit back and listen to it, and I'll just concentrate on what kind of feeling it gives me. My goal writing the lyrics is to not disrupt that feeling.
Tom Scholz
Work
Me
Writing
Recording
Feeling
Sit
Back
Lyrics
Kind
Some
Gives
Lead
Concentrate
Tracks
Always
Goal
Listen
Maybe
Just
Thing
Basic
Disrupt
Last
Guess what, Beyonce? White people like your music, too. White people buy your songs on iTunes, memorize your lyrics, and admire your talent and beauty. Little white girls wanna be like you just as little black girls do, but instead of that, you'd rather perpetuate the great battle of the races.
Tomi Lahren
Buy
Music
Great
You
Battle
People
Black
Girl
Beauty
White
Too
Guess
Lyrics
Admire
Memorize
Rather
Songs
Instead
Talent
Like
Beyonce
Perpetuate
iTunes
Just
Wanna
Little
Races
Your
Mercer was very clever. He knew the way Southerners spoke and put that into his lyrics. But in that whole era, you had the best. Harold Arlen was just fantastic. Cole Porter was better than anybody, and Gershwin was Gershwin, y'know. Johnny Mercer started Capitol Records, and he brought in Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Nat King Cole.
Tony Bennett
Best
You
Better
King
Clever
Cole Porter
Harold
Lyrics
Way
Brought
Martin
Johnny
Records
Had
He
Put
Knew
Spoke
Sinatra
Dean
Dean Martin
Era
Nat King Cole
His
Very
Gershwin
Than
Southerners
Just
Anybody
Fantastic
Capitol
Whole
Porter
Started
I've never seen myself as a pop singer. I grew up listening to gospel, soul and rock. My approach to pop is that, when I was doing my album, I wanted to have raw, genuine lyrics, but wanted it to be easy to process.
Tori Kelly
Myself
Soul
Listening
Seen
Approach
Lyrics
Easy
Never
Raw
Singer
Gospel
Genuine
Rock
Doing
Up
Wanted
Grew
Process
Pop
Pop Singer
Album
Listening to music and lyrics and watching movies, I think, uses a lot of the same muscles we use in reading and experiencing poetry - and yet we somehow forget that we have those when it comes to sitting down with a book of poems.
Tracy K. Smith
Music
Book
Listening
Reading
Down
Think
Lyrics
Those
Somehow
Poems
Poetry
Lot
Forget
Same
Sitting
Experiencing
Movies
Use
Uses
Watching
Muscles
A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.
Travie McCoy
Me
Inspire
Will
Lyrics
Underground
Hip-Hop
Lot
Intelligent
As Far As
Rhyme
Patterns
Wordy
Far
Really
We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics.
Travis Barker
Music
Mark
Lyrics
Write
Then
Tom
The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form.
Trent Reznor
Hate
Writing
First
Lyric
Lyrics
Machine
Pretty
Songs
Journal
Wrote
Came
Private
Form
Which
Realized
Ever
Set
So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of 'The Most Offensive Song Ever' with lyrics intact.
Trey Parker
Christmas
Song
Lyrics
Finally
Considering
Since
New
Most
Because
Doing
Intact
Been
Version
Offensive
Maybe
Then
Episodes
Ever
Album
Christmas Album
My production got better, songs, lyrics, everything; the sound, the quality, everything.
Ty Dolla Sign
Quality
Better
Lyrics
Everything
Songs
Got
Sound
Production
When I sit down and try to write lyrics first - I've definitely done that in the past - but most of the time, they come off as a put-on, or less genuine than you would think. I'm the kind of guy that if I overthink a sentiment or I overthink a statement, it's weird.
Ty Segall
Time
You
Try
First
Past
Sit
Sentiment
Down
Think
Lyrics
Statement
Definitely
Kind
Would
Guy
Write
Weird
Come
Most
Genuine
Off
Than
Done
In The Past
Less
Inside of me, it was like my soul and what I had to do to feed my family was always split. I was writing lyrics while I was supposed to be working. I'd look up, and there's my supervisor.
Tyka Nelson
Family
Me
Soul
Writing
Lyrics
Inside
My Soul
Supervisor
Split
Had
Feed
Like
Supposed
Look
Always
Up
While
Working
I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story.
Vanilla Ice
Music
Me
You
People
Listening
Mind
Will
Down
Thinking
Else
Lyrics
Would
Classical
Following
Classical Music
Something
Never
Nobody
Nobody Else
Like
Know
Most
Because
Around
Calms
Mode
Get
Blow
Listen
Story
Really
Your
Deep
Ever
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