#lyrics

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy. ↗

— Jo Stafford

#i #into #just #learned #lyrics

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

#because #forerunner #i #lyrics #me

A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics. ↗

— Will Champion

#lyrics #melancholy #time

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

— Alice Cooper

#crazy #good #i #lyrics #music

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good? ↗

— Doug Coupland

#good #had #life #lyrics #would

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. ↗

— Brian Eno

#generated #lyrics #peculiar #processes #random

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#forte #hang #his #hunter #like

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