#lyric

I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, even Janet Jackson. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#brown #different #even #good #i

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

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

— Elizabeth McGovern

#kind #lyrics #me #song #style

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that. ↗

— Roger McGuinn

#chord #i #like #lyrics #out

I'm a peasant I'm the muzhik A pest you're destined to play the music And yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty I'm Indebted to rest respecting it truly ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #beauty #creation #creativity #credit

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#anything #block #else #having #i

A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted. ↗

— Thurston Moore

#ideas #lot #lyrical #meaning #somewhat

Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words. ↗

— Thurston Moore

#had #interest #interesting #involvement #lot