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When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don't understand, the clash between the voices in my head and the song can be very disorienting.
Daniel Alarcon
Music
Song
Language
Lyrics
Background
Distracting
Find
Clash
Able
Voices
Write
Head
Between
Days
Instrumental
Understand
Very
Just
Younger
Even
Playing
I want to suggest a feeling. It's ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics.
Danielle Dax
History
You
Experience
People
Somebody
Feeling
Own
Assume
Add
Relate
Else
State
Lyric
Lyrics
Way
Only
Never
Because
Opinion
Same
Different
Want
Then
Whole
Ridiculous
Suggest
We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.
Dave Haywood
Music
Good
You
Sometimes
Humming
Lyrics
Say
Melodies
Melody
Out
Finding
See
Something
Takes
Instrumentation
Go
Lot
Verses
Get
Trying
Where
Want
As Far As
Far
Figure
Start
Second
All musicians should write poetry or at least read it if they want to improve their game. Except for people who believe lyrics don't matter.
David Berman
Game
Musicians
People
Matter
Believe
Lyrics
Poetry
Except
Write
Read
Least
Improve
Want
Should
Who
When I'm writing Broadway, it's for a character, a man, a woman, an old guy, a kid. In the band, you're talking in your own voice in the lyrics, saying what you think or feel. On Broadway, you're expressing that through a character.
David Bryan
Saying
Character
You
Man
Woman
Writing
Old
Band
Own
Think
Lyrics
Broadway
Kid
Guy
Voice
Through
Feel
Talking
Old Guy
Your
Expressing
When you make a melody that doesn't come with words from the get-go, sometimes you're just thinking about random vowel sounds that go with it - and it's really, really hard to write lyrics that actually obey the vowel sounds.
David Longstreth
You
Words
Obey
Sometimes
Random
Thinking
Lyrics
Melody
About
Write
Come
Vowel
Make
Sounds
Go
Just
Really
Hard
Actually
I'd always tended to regard song lyrics as sort of a bastard medium because they're subjugated under the music. If you were to regard them as poetry, it would be bad, embarrassing, confessional poetry - a lot of the lyrics I love.
David Longstreth
Love
Music
You
Song
Medium
Lyrics
Embarrassing
Bad
Would
Would-Be
Poetry
Sort
Because
Always
Were
Lot
Regard
Them
I just want to be a storyteller, and I think the way to do that is by your lyrics, by your visuals, by your choreography, by your dance. It's imperative as an artist.
Dawn Richard
Dance
Think
Lyrics
Way
Visuals
Imperative
Artist
Just
Want
Storyteller
Your
Choreography
I would love to collaborate with Chance the Rapper. I love his lyrics and his sound and everything.
Daya
Love
Rapper
Collaborate
Lyrics
Everything
Would
Sound
His
Chance
He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I think that's the key and that's the magic, it's making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they're on the dance floor.
Deborah Cox
People
Key
Complicated
Dance
Think
Dance Floor
Lyric
Lyrics
Though
Magic
Could
Through
He
Come
Make
Sure
Making
Still
Lot
Going
Just
While
Really
Production
Connect
Even
Floor
'Endless Love' is such a perfect love song for a wedding or for a Valentine, because that is the committed kind of endless love. All the lyrics are perfect.
Delilah
Love
Love Is
Song
Valentine
Lyrics
Kind
Wedding
Perfect
Perfect Love
Because
Committed
Endless
When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.
Dexter Gordon
You
Yourself
Communicate
Lyrics
Kind
Able
Insight
Some
Composition
About
Poem
Know
Understand
Being
Tune
Depriving
Really
For every album we worked on, I brought in reels of tape of somewhere between fourteen and eighteen songs - some of them completed, with lyrics and melodies, some of them basic tracks. Things came out of those products. Like, for 'Hotel California', I think I had a reel with sixteen songs on it.
Don Felder
Somewhere
Every
Think
Lyrics
Completed
Melodies
Those
Out
Some
Brought
Had
Songs
Hotel
Between
Like
California
Tracks
Came
Tape
Sixteen
Eighteen
Them
Worked
Products
Basic
Things
Fourteen
Album
Coming from art school, I had a great sense of style - as did The Beatles and the Stones - and I enjoyed projecting that. Image, attitude, great music and great lyrics - that was the '60s.
Donovan
Attitude
Music
Art
Great
Beatles
School
Style
Sense
Lyrics
Projecting
Great Music
Had
Great Sense
Coming
Art School
Did
Stones
Enjoyed
Image
I privilege the music over the lyrics.
Duncan Sheik
Music
Lyrics
Over
Privilege
I have never been able to separate - nor have I wanted to - my personal love and desire for truth, passion, and understanding from my lyrics.
Ed Kowalczyk
Love
Truth
Passion
Understanding
Lyrics
Able
Never
Been
Nor
Personal
Wanted
Separate
Desire
One of the lyrics from Bono that always sticks with me is 'Where the Streets Have No Name.' Just the name of the song, that sort of oneness, and there isn't any division in yourself, and your just at peace and fired up at the same time.
Ed Kowalczyk
Time
Me
Peace
Yourself
Song
Bono
Lyrics
Oneness
Fired
Division
Name
Sort
Sticks
Always
Up
Same
Any
Just
Same Time
Where
Your
Streets
I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
Eddie Van Halen
Music
Me
Will
Lyrics
Inspires
Write
Know
Really
Tone
Set
I tend to write at the piano, but usually the melody and lyrics come first. Like, I'll be in the shower, and I'll start singing, and the melody and the lyric will just come out. Then I'll quickly try to finish the shower, try to remember it, record it on my phone and save it for the studio.
Eliza Doolittle
Phone
Remember
Try
Will
First
Singing
Lyric
Lyrics
Melody
Out
Record
Finish
Tend
Write
Piano
Studio
Come
Like
Quickly
Just
Then
Shower
Start
Save
I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.
Elton John
Music
Hate
First
Lyrics
Later
Say
Instrumentation
Always
Grab
Listen
Then
We started very slow in America. It was small acoustic shows. We played places like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago and everywhere there has been a great reaction. It has been really lovely. They listen to the lyrics and the melody over there and the reaction has been fantastic.
Emeli Sande
Great
Slow
Lyrics
Everywhere
Melody
Has-Been
Angeles
Small
Over
New
Like
Reaction
Los
Los Angeles
Been
Chicago
Very
America
York
Listen
New York
Lovely
Places
Acoustic
Fantastic
Really
Shows
Played
Started
I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.
Emmylou Harris
Music
Guitar
First
Secondary
Lyrics
Come
House
Sing
Around
Sitting
Shower
I don't really care about a song or lyrics; I'm really just interested in the way people emphasize words. That's what makes a strong impact on me.
Erik Hassle
Me
People
Song
Words
Strong
Care
Lyrics
Way
Impact
About
Emphasize
Makes
Just
Interested
Really
My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard on the radio. I'd change little things in the music and write different lyrics.
Esperanza Spalding
Music
Change
Writing
Little Things
Sit
Lyrics
Seven
Would
Write
Piano
Songs
Attempts
Were
Heard
Different
Little
Radio
Things
Earliest
I have a very large shoebox overflowing with lyrics I've been writing and collecting since my teen years and into my late 20s, with lyrics from all walks of my life. Darkness, being in love, being heartbroken, finding yourself... and lyrics that I've been sitting on for, like, seven years, that I haven't done anything with.
Evan Rachel Wood
Life
Love
Yourself
Writing
Darkness
My Life
Walks
Teen
Teen Years
Late
Lyrics
Seven
Collecting
Finding
Finding Yourself
Since
Like
Overflowing
Been
Years
Very
Heartbroken
Sitting
Done
Being
Anything
Being In Love
Large
I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.
Ezra Koenig
Day
Lyrics
Rap
Inspiration
Most
Still
Get
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