#lyrics

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco. ↗

— Jello Biafra

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Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance. ↗

— Beth Gibbons

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Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife! ↗

— Buddy Guy

#everyday #everyday life #everyone #get #having

I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin. ↗

— Nina Hagen

#berlin #create #drummer #east #great

I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine. ↗

— Morrissey

#lyrics #music #humor

There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs. ↗

— Christine McVie

#books #bunch #find #finish #frustrating

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #artist #author #autobiography #character

There's so much destruction all over the world - and all you can do is complain about ME! ↗

— Morrissey

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If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story. ↗

— Kate Smith

#done #kind #lyrics #music #nothing

Music blows lyrics up very quickly, and suddenly they become more than art. They become pompous and they become self-conscious ... I firmly believe that lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you not only have the music, but you've got costume, story, acting, orchestra. There's a lot to take in. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#music #theatre #art