#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

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily. ↗

— John Mayer

#assuming #currently #emotion #emotional #experiencing

To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought. ↗

— Bruce McCulloch

#always #deep #doors #fans #getting

Funny how a melody sounds like a memory. ↗

— Eric Church

#eric-church #lyrics #music #springsteen #funny

I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself. ↗

— Morrissey

#life #lyrics #music #humor

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon. ↗

— Paul Brandt

#lyric #inspirational

you dont know what you got till its gone ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#music-lyrics #music

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#music #song-lyrics #music

DROP IT LIKE ITS HAAWWWWWWT ↗

— Snoop Dogg

#music