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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
I listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, "Where was my head at when I wrote that?"
— Ozzy Osbourne
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
When I write lyrics, it's only when I'm angry or hurt or sad. So lyrically it's never really easy going. And the music is always really intense.
— Henry Rollins
I saw an interview with Jay-Z where he said he didn't write down any of his lyrics, so I tried that.
— Travis Morrison
I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing it.
— Kim Gordon
I don't think lyrics need to be deep - just write whatever comes out of you. You don't need to find intense meaning in everything.
— Bethany Cosentino
I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.
— King Krule
As long as music survives, poetry will never die.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Sondheim is my god; I love the man. I learned a great deal about writing from his work, his lyrics, and his structure.
— Richard LaGravenese
Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I've also been writing for other artists, producing other artists, doing some country stuff. Those lyrics I tend to leave more universal.
— Meredith Brooks
I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than ... is where it all comes from.
— Zachary Cole Smith
After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.
— Jim Capaldi
Singing the songs, writing the lyrics, emotioning the words; that is all I can do for love.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising.
— St. Lucia
I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics
— Henry Rollins
I feel like I'm still learning a lot with writing lyrics. In the beginning, like the first record, I wasn't so aware.
— Yukimi Nagano
I'm not that conscious of my writing, so pacing the lyrics doesn't really enter the picture.
— Dan Bejar
One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.
— Stephen Sondheim
I tend to get a little quirkier and crazier with my lyrics and come from a different angle when I'm writing for myself.
— Bonnie McKee
I can't write - out of all the things it takes to make music, lyrics are the thing I'm by far the shittiest at.
— Jay Watson
Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.
— Carla H. Krueger
I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music.
— Rokia Traore
Did you write the words, or the lyrics?
— Bruce Forsyth
Why do you write like you're running out of time?
— Lin-Manuel Miranda
I don't write lyrics, the lyrics write Thom Yorke
— Thom Yorke
I like to write my lyrics on clay tablets.
— Randy Newman
I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
— Abbie Cornish
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose ... anything goes.
— Cole Porter
For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
— Jim Capaldi
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
— Brian Eno
I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.
— Win Butler
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
When I first started writing lyrics and stuff, I was writing it to garage, and obviously garage kind of progressed to grime.
— Lady Sovereign
I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead
— John Frusciante
Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.
— Yannis Philippakis
I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
— Jack Kerouac
When you have four people writing lyrics instead of one person, the lyrics are going to be a little more broad.
— Brendon Urie
I try to write in a way where the lyrics have many meanings and you won't really know what's behind it.
— Taylor Momsen
I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you might not write savage lyrics.
— Paul McCartney
To all companies please stop using Xmas songs and inserting your own lyrics. Write your own music. I am boycotting you until you stop.
— Bill Engvall
