#lyric

All I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape. ↗

— Blind Melon

#music-lyrics #life

Doubt thou the stars are fire Doubt thou the sun doth move Doubt truth to be a liar But never doubt I love (Quoting Shakespeare) ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#song-lyrics #love

The heart has a heart of its own. ↗

— Morrissey

#life #love #lyrics #music #humor

Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day. ↗

— Anita Diament

#documentary #eventually #experimenting #hope #i

Only love can last. ↗

— Madonna

#love

like a soulmate he's your penguin ↗

— Christina Perri

#love #penguin #song-lyrics #soulmates #love

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful? ↗

— Gerard Way

#gerard-way #killjoys #love #music #my-chemical-romance

Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#beauty

One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity. ↗

— Hal David

#degree #fall #his #learn #lines

Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music. ↗

— Bjork

#artist #chat #colors #comes #down