#lyric

Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#hard #ideas #letting #lyrical #melodies

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

— Brian Eno

#generated #lyrics #peculiar #processes #random

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 have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last. Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about. ↗

— John Legend

#because #bunch #come #first #hook

Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power. ↗

— Fernand Leger

#before #enlargements #enormous #entirely #fragment

I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs. ↗

— Howie Mandel

#bobby #how #i #idea #involved

To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#kind #lyrics #me #song #style

Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal. ↗

— Malcolm Mclaren

#immortal #lyric #mean #necessarily #question

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#ditch #hard #i #know #labor

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#go #haven #having #i #lyrics