#lyric

As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#bowie #class #course #cousins #david

It's such a rush doing a concert and seeing people actually mouthing the lyrics. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#concert #doing #lyrics #people #rush

I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#because #chords #heard #i #i can

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#fact #in fact #itself #lyric #medium

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody. ↗

— Ken Hensley

#come #comes #first #i #i always

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

#acoustic guitar #adding #doing #emphasis #folk

And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#i #like #lyrics #realized #sing

And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#great #i #i think #japan #lyrics

For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#english #included #japan #lost #lots

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

— Utada Hikaru

#i #japanese #like #lyrics #make