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In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.
Bruno Mars
Saying
Home
People
Drive
Before
Lyrics
Melody
Something
Emotion
Never
Songs
Said
Been
Blow
Going
Away
I started listening to The-Dream a lot. That's when I really got into writing songs. I like the way he put lyrics and makes his songs. So I was like, 'All right,' and I just started writing. That's when I started wanting to be a songwriter.
Bryson Tiller
Writing
Listening
Lyrics
Way
Songs
Songwriter
He
Put
Like
Makes
Got
His
Lot
Just
Wanting
Really
Right
Started
If I had to compare myself to another artist, I wouldn't. I feel like my lyrics are really strong. I'm good at painting pictures and telling picture stories.
Bryson Tiller
Myself
Good
Strong
Picture
Painting
Lyrics
Telling
Had
Feel
Pictures
Like
Another
Artist
Stories
Really
Compare
I've been singing about love a long time now, because my kind of love carries a different flavor. My lyrics are not so outrageous as some. You have to think about a lot of different things. You get more mature with what you do - more experience, more capable, you know, the older you get.
Burning Spear
Love
Time
You
Experience
Long
Long Time
Singing
Older
Think
Lyrics
Carries
Kind
Some
About
More
Outrageous
Know
Because
Been
Lot
Mature
Get
Different
Flavor
Capable
Different Things
Now
Things
I have Bob Dylan lyrics on my ribs. I'm a diehard Dylan fan, and my dad and I joke that if I ever met him, I'd have him sign his name right under my tattoo and then I'd run to the parlor to get his signature tattooed.
Carly Chaikin
Joke
Met
Lyrics
Sign
Signature
Run
Parlor
Name
Him
His
Get
Diehard
Tattoo
Tattooed
Fan
Dylan
Ribs
Bob
Bob Dylan
Then
Dad
Ever
Right
Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.
Carly Simon
Music
Sometimes
Other
Local
Lyrics
Melody
Would
Poem
Write
Take
Put
Boyfriend
Times
Scratch
Start
I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's lyricist; Elton John is the great melody and song writer but Bernie Taupin is the one who writes all the lyrics. I don't write lyrics, and I never wanted to be in the music business if I was just going to be a puppet in it.
Carmen Ejogo
Music
Great
Business
Song
Thought
Music Business
Elton
Elton John
Lyricist
Lyrics
Bit
Melody
Puppet
John
About
Write
Writer
Writes
Never
Always
Going
Just
Wanted
Little
Little Bit
Who
Whole
Thing
It's such a rush doing a concert and seeing people actually mouthing the lyrics.
Carnie Wilson
People
Lyrics
Rush
Seeing
Concert
Doing
Actually
Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.
Cass McCombs
Music
Lyrics
Stuff
Racket
Play
When you're looking for good lyrics, you turn to Kendrick Lamar, you turn to J Cole, you turn to Wale, you turn to Chance the Rapper, you turn to Rapsody. You don't turn to Post Malone.
Charlamagne tha God
Good
You
Post
Rapper
Looking
Lyrics
Turn
Chance
I think God gave me an inner dictionary. If you play the right music that my heart loves, lyrics just come right to me.
Charles Bradley
Music
God
Me
You
Heart
Think
Gave
Lyrics
Come
Dictionary
Just
Loves
Play
Right
Inner
I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are some songwriters who can like me I have a problem writing chorus lyrics but I can write a song in a story like that.
Charles King
Me
Song
Writing
Problem
Brilliant
Think
Lyrics
Some
Write
Songwriters
Like
Just
Story
Then
Who
Chorus
With my own material, I like maintaining lyric integrity. I like having sophisticated lyrics, and maybe that's not down-the-middle Top 40 pop, but it reflects my style, my life, the way I speak, and the way I tell what's happening with my life emotionally, so in that way, it's authentic to me.
Chelsea Lankes
Life
Me
Integrity
Speak
My Life
Style
Own
Lyric
Lyrics
Top
Way
Tell
My Own
Having
Emotionally
Maintaining
Like
Sophisticated
Material
Authentic
Reflects
Maybe
Happening
Pop
There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics.
Cheryl James
Singing
Clothes
Lyrics
Further
Wearing
Onstage
Because
Audience
Doing
Were
Times
Than
Expectations
Children
Wanted
Little
Certain
Certain Things
Things
Career
I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.
Chris Cornell
Music
Entertainment
Enjoy
Think
Lyric
Lyrics
Statements
More
Colorful
Writer
Make
Making
Doing
Creating
Should
Paintings
Images
The first time you listen to someone else's interpretation of what you've created, it's a little unnerving. They'll change lyrics or something almost every time. That's them being an artist, and you appreciate it more over time.
Chris Stapleton
Time
You
Change
First
Interpretation
Every
Every Time
Else
Lyrics
Unnerving
Someone
Something
More
Almost
Over
First Time
Artist
Listen
Being
Little
Them
Created
Appreciate
Most of all, I like to sing my heart out to lyrics that really speak to people.
Christina Grimmie
Heart
People
Speak
Lyrics
Out
Like
Most
Sing
Really
The writing process is more... it becomes a case of more like a diary for me. I mean, I write stuff down all day whenever I'm experiencing something that I think would be important for me to look at later on. You know, whether it be for writing lyrics or just for a memory, like, 'Oh, my gosh, I can't believe I was feeling that way at that time'.
Christina Milian
Time
Day
Me
You
Memory
Writing
Feeling
Important
Down
Believe
Think
Lyrics
Later
Way
All Day
Would
Would-Be
Case
Something
More
Write
Writing Process
Stuff
Like
Know
Look
Gosh
Becomes
Diary
Oh
Just
Whenever
Experiencing
Process
Whether
Mean
I love when I dive into lyrics that give me human complexity and intricate narrative.
Christine and the Queens
Love
Me
Lyrics
Complexity
Intricate
Dive
Give
Give Me
Narrative
Human
When I published my first novel, 'Slammed,' I included lyrics at the beginning of each chapter from one of my favorite bands, The Avett Brothers. The overwhelmingly positive response from readers to those lyrics really surprised me.
Colleen Hoover
Positive
Me
Chapter
First
Beginning
Lyrics
Those
Favorite
Response
Brothers
Readers
Surprised
Bands
Really
Novel
Each
Included
Slammed
Published
I'm the guy that gets up at three in the morning to jot down an entire sheet of lyrics for something that won't be recorded for six months. You have to get it down when you can, because thoughts are fluid.
Corey Taylor
Morning
Thoughts
You
Fluid
Three
Down
Lyrics
Months
Entire
Something
Guy
Recorded
Jot
Sheet
Because
Up
Get
Gets
Six
I know the songs that Sly wrote still have the meaning for those that are living today that weren't even around when we started playing before, in the beginning. His lyrics, to me, if you listen to them, they can form a lifestyle that will leave you a happier person, a better person on this planet. It's just lyrics to live by.
Cynthia Robinson
Today
Me
You
Better
Will
Before
Beginning
Live
Living
Lyrics
Those
Sly
Better Person
Lifestyle
Songs
Know
Wrote
Around
Still
Leave
Were
His
Person
Listen
Just
Form
In The Beginning
Happier
To Live By
Them
Meaning
Planet
Even
Started
Playing
My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.
Dan Hicks
Me
Guitar
Light
Singing
Single
Jazz
Adding
Lyrics
Kind
Folk
More
Voices
Emphasis
Stuff
Instruments
Doing
Just
Acoustic
Acoustic Guitar
Then
Thing
Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
Dan Hill
Saying
Best
Me
Hate
Genius
Will
Ali
Channels
Lyrics
Boomer
Only
Inventive
Highly
New
Match
His
West
Friends
Dylan
Storytelling
Much
Kanye
Kanye West
Muhammad
Muhammad Ali
'Simply the Best' has always been one of my favourite songs and a song that I've always thought was far deeper than what you imagine it to be at first listen. I found the lyrics to be really, oddly beautiful, considering you rarely stop and think about them.
Dan Levy
Beautiful
Best
You
Song
Thought
First
Think
Lyrics
Considering
Favourite
Rarely
About
Songs
Simply
Always
Been
Oddly
Than
Listen
Stop
Them
Far
Really
Found
Deeper
Imagine
There's always room to make stuff that is completely morose and downbeat, but we'd probably spiral into a state of complete despair if our music reflected the lyrics all the time. I think that's almost the fun game with some songs, is this complete tearing of two feelings at once.
Dan Smith
Music
Time
Game
Feelings
Think
Despair
State
Complete
Our
Lyrics
Once
Our Music
Some
Spiral
Songs
Almost
Stuff
Make
Always
Reflected
Room
Fun
Tearing
Two
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