Music Lyrics Quotes

I find most modern country virtually unlistenable. I can't relate to the music or the lyrics. — Jenny Lewis

There are some bad people on the rise;
they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives. — Morrissey

I let the music set the tone of the lyrics.I allowed myself to write more about relationships and emotions, in a girly way almost. — Jose Gonzalez

Get crazy with the Cheez Whiz. — Beck

It's true - there are only, like, two songs about rainbows, including that one. He should be asking why there are so few songs about rainbows. — Cheryl Cory

The rest of the world was black and white, But we were in screaming color — Taylor Swift

Work Hard, Play Hard! — Wiz Khalifa

I miss the sound of your voice
And I miss the rush of your skin
And I miss the still of the silence
As you breathe out and I breathe in — Matt Nathanson

Soft silly music is meaningful, magical. — Jeff Mangum

We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10 — Lady Gaga

Try to knock us down, we'll get up every time. 24/Seven — Big Time Rush

I walked when I should have run
I ran when I should have walked
And don't I know it, don't I know it — Jamie Woon

I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing songs. — Stephen Sondheim

Your pain is your own until you put it to music, then it belongs to everyone. You'll find it lightens the load. — Beau North

We take gingko to sharpen our memories. We could be memorizing song lyrics instead. — Joan Oliver Goldsmith

Cause in you're eyes, I'd like to stay — Katy Perry

When music hits you, you dance. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I've always been a fan of country music. It's America's music - I love the songs, love the lyrics. — Charles Koppelman

Am I the reason you breathe
Or am I the reason you cry? — Saliva

I don't give a fuck, God sent me to piss the world off. — Eminem

We hate it when our friends become successful. — Morrissey

If you could see my thoughts, you could see our faces. — Frank Ocean

I privilege the music over the lyrics. — Duncan Sheik

Don't leave it all unsaid,
somewhere in the wasteland of your head. — Morrissey

And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth? — Morrissey

The heart has a heart of its own. — Morrissey

Music is breath of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Why don't you find out for yourself?
Then you'll see the glass, hidden in the grass. — Morrissey

I took the sing from your song. I made a bed where you don't belong. — Ben Howard

We were scholars long before colleges. — Nasir Jones

Anything you say can and will be used against you, so only say my name. — Fall Out Boy

I took your name when I took those vows
I meant 'em back then and I mean 'em right now. — The Band Perry

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later. — Elton John

If life is a song and we are born with the lyrics, then it is up to us to create the music that fits! — Michelle Cooke

Life is a pigsty. — Morrissey

Sailboats with they were stars, floating softly through the sky, among our dreams that pay goodbye. — Adam Young

Maybe the key to finding the perfect song is simply rewriting the lyrics. — Kandi Steiner

I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics. — Eddie Van Halen

I wish that I was looking into your eyes — Katy Perry

Maybe the internet raised us, or maybe people are jerks. — Lorde

Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too. — Stephen Malkmus

This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores. — Morrissey

I change by not changing at all. — Pearl Jam

All I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape. — Blind Melon

There's no magic for getting into the groove ... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music. — Phil Collins

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics. — Obie Trice

Tristan was the soundtrack of my summer. The beat I walked to. The melody I breathed in and out. The lyrics I lived by. — Jessica Brody

You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why ... this is why I like you. — Morrissey

Because ENOUGH is TOO MUCH!
And look around ... can you blame us?! — Morrissey

I'm tired again, I've tried again, and now my heart is full.
And I just can't explain ... so I won't even try to. — Morrissey

Can you squeeze me
into an empty page of your diary
and psychologically save me? — Morrissey

I'll be pool-side, if you're look'n for me. — Webb Wilder

It's ok to say you've got a weak spot,you don't always have to be on top.
Better to be hated then loved(x3) for what you're not. — Marina And The Diamonds

I was wasting my time, praying for love.
For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist. — Morrissey

With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do. — Morrissey

It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow. — Aimee Mann

To me, the lyrics mean more then the music, and that's the way it should always be. — Roger Miret

I will never let you fall
I'll stand up with you forever
I'll be there for you through it all
Even if saving you sends me to heaven — Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

Music has always been the greatest expression of mortal philosophy," continued Lucky. "The path to enlightenment is found in the lyrics of Spinal Tap. — A. Lee Martinez

Happy soul;begin and end your day with music. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Maybe I'm overcast. And maybe all my lucks washed down the drain. — Switchfoot

Music is also one of the great heart openers. Sometimes, you hear the lyrics of a song and you dance, laugh, smile, or perhaps even cry. — Michael Franti

We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics. — Travis Barker

I kissed the scars on her skin. I still think you're beautiful, and I don't ever wanna lose my best friend — Pierce The Veil

reality has too many heads — Bob Dylan

I took a road that wasn't the road, but it was something I chose and that's fine. — Tom Rosenthal

Talking about the future, like we had a clue. Never plans that one day, I'd be losing you — Katy Perry

So if you have today you should say all that you have to say — Kellin Quinn

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful? — Gerard Way

Inside my heart is breaking,
My make-up may be flaking,
But my smile, still, stays on! — Freddie Mercury

I can't read music and I'm crap at learning lyrics. Especially since the accident I have memory problems. I can't remember words, names, places. — Marc Almond

Funny how a melody sounds like a memory. — Eric Church

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus. — Tori Amos

Cause we're the here and now generation. 24/Seven — Big Time Rush

You know I love to spend my mornings, like sunlight dancing on your skin — Rodney Crowell

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively. — Lorde

I used to dream, and I used to vow;
I wouldn't dream of it now. — Morrissey

They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy. — Morrissey

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do. — Stephen Sondheim

Music is first, lyrics are secondary. — Kurt Cobain

You cannot taste a song
but you can feel the tune relishing your heart
where strings of music belong. — Munia Khan

My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy. — Gary Wright

We all decided that from the start, me and Richey can't write music but we can write lyrics and look pretty tarty. — Nicky Wire

I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry. — Patti LaBelle

Because you wear a uniform, a smelly uniform ... and so you think you can be rude to me. — Morrissey

And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom — Hayley Williams

How do I get better once I've had the best? — Katy Perry

Music gives life to the soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you. — Neil Young

Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me? — Beck

Walking thru this graveyard, I realize times were never really hard. We live, we love, we let it go. The world ain't changed me at all. — Kevin Dalton

When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience. — Oliver

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band. — Bruce Springsteen

I usually have a song in my head. I'm thinking music, I'm thinking lyrics. Music helps me get to those moments. The moments between the moments. — Charlie Sheen

Everything about you resonates happiness
No I won't settle for less — Muse

You can't take the sky from me. — Joss Whedon

Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world. — Josh Groban

When you're happy,you enjoy the music.But,when you're sad,you understand the lyrics. — Eljumar Alesna

Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme. — Morrissey