#lyric

Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody. ↗

— Adam Rich

#definitely #focuses #heavy #hopefully #look

Lyrically we tried to just not be the same as a lot of the other crap that is out there right now. ↗

— Adam Rich

#just #lot #lyrically #now #other

But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat. ↗

— Alan Vega

#became #eminem #especially #fall #first

I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#else #feel #i #lyrics #myself

Lyrics are really important for me. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#lyrics #me #really

We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually. ↗

— Beth Gibbons

#actually #come #find #having #i

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

I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#access #back #deal #great #great deal

When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are! ↗

— Alma Gluck

#complete #complete control #control #english #etc

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem. ↗

— Dexter Gordon

#about #being #communicate #composition #depriving