#lyrics

It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful. ↗

— Michael Bolton

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I was looking at the setlist backstage and I just said, 'Oh my God, the first six songs nobody's gonna know.' But they all knew the lyrics. It just blew me away. ↗

— Meredith Brooks

#backstage #blew #first #god #gonna

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles. ↗

— Jim Capaldi

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I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. ↗

— Alice Cooper

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We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#beings #crave #feel #going #great

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 write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to. ↗

— Lindsay Lohan

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I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

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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

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

— Elizabeth McGovern

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