#lyric

A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song. ↗

— John Mellencamp

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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction. ↗

— Barry Mann

#different kind #direction #else #get #go

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time. ↗

— Don McLean

#ask #complex #course #did #had

I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music. ↗

— Jay McShann

#everything #excited #greatest #had #happening

I don't know about the time those songs were written. But he was jamming with someone in Colorado or San Francisco, and I'm sure he was working on the lyrics right up to the show because they were really relevant for the situation. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#because #colorado #francisco #i #jamming

To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one. ↗

— Morrissey

#love #lyrics #music #art

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#good #i #lyric #my own #own

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#came #got #had #know #lyrics

A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me. ↗

— Lou Rawls

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