#lyric

Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#i #japanese #like #lyrics #make

The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#done #english #i #lyrics #making

I was looking at the setlist backstage and I just said, 'Oh my God, the first six songs nobody's gonna know.' But they all knew the lyrics. It just blew me away. ↗

— Meredith Brooks

#backstage #blew #first #god #gonna

I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#crazy #good #i #lyrics #music

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good? ↗

— Doug Coupland

#good #had #life #lyrics #would

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. ↗

— Brian Eno

#generated #lyrics #peculiar #processes #random

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention. ↗

— Brian Eno

#attention #beat #engage #exist #lyric

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#cord #cover #create #expand #hard

I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#ever #i #lyrics #problem #stand

Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#fairly #function #good #good song #great