#lyric

You are more than the choices that you've made, You are more than the sum of your past mistakes, You are more than the problems you create, You've been remade. ↗

— Tenth Avenue North

#music-lyrics #music

I started out with nothing and I've still got most of it left. ↗

— Seasick Steve

#music #music

I liked old time music but what i meant by that was the period from the 1930s through the 60s, nothing before and little after.  Performers like fats waller, Sinatra, billie holiday, louis armstrong, rosemary clooney, ella, sammy Davis Jr, dean martin... If the lyrics weren't stupid. Words were important. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#music #words #music

And people are just people, They shouldn't make you nervous. The world is everlasting, It's coming and it's going. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#music

So if the ties that bind ever do come loose Tie them in a knot like a hangman's noose Cause I'll go to heaven or I'll go to hell Before I'll see you with someone else. ↗

— The Band Perry

#music-lyrics #relationships #music

For the life of me I cannot remember, what made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise. For the life of me I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins, we were merely freshmen. ↗

— The Verve Pipe

#music-lyrics #relationships #wise-words #music

I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style. ↗

— Marc Almond

#i #interesting #kind #like #lyrics

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#lyrical #singing #trumpet

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting. ↗

— David Antin

#centuries #circles #commonplace #like #literary

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write. ↗

— Tom Araya

#i write #just #lyrically #musically #write