[describing how he and wife Annette O`Toole go about writing a song`s music and lyrics] When we`ve done it - and this sounds like I`m talking about sex, doesn`t it? - we`ve done it every way you can.
Michael McKean
[about Eminem`s lyrics in "The Real Slim Shady" which contained sexual references about her] It`s disgusting and offensive and above all it`s not true.
Christina Aguilera
You try to concentrate on the lyrics, the music, the melody, and putting it all together, and there`s a sign . . . and half of you is saying, `Ignore it`, but the other half is saying, `Read it, go ahead.` `My grandmother saw you at Candlestick.` That say...
Paul McCartney
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
I`m not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that`s more what entertainment and music should be.
Chris Cornell
I always find music guys writing about love. Think of something else for a change. I`m sorry, but it`s been done, and it does work and it`s good and all that, but I think something else would be nice. I tend not to write lyrics, cause I`m a bad lyricist. ...
Jesse Spencer
Young women say I helped them come out of their shells, and 13 rock groups have written songs about me. One song has these lyrics all the way through, `I love Bettie Page. I love Bettie Page. I love Bettie Page.` (LA Times 3-11-06)
Bettie Page
On how he came up with the lyrics for his album Trap Muzik, "This is a paperless album. I don`t write nothing down. Just listen to the beat for a minute like this right here.. and get in the booth and lay it down."
T.i Harris
I have a theory as to why I`ve been around so long. I don`t think I`m all that good, I think I`m competent, I know how to do what I`m supposed to do. I know how to play the piano, I know how to sing in key, I know how to write music & lyrics, I know how t...
Billy Joel
For me they are pop songs. Beautiful melodies, fantastic lyrics, great accompaniments. I feel that my job as a pop artist is to develop as a musician, and to bring into my sphere elements that aren`t necessarily pop, more complex intervals, complex time s...
Sting
Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don`t look at myself as a visua...
Bjork Guomundsdottir
If I said in one of my songs that my English teacher wanted to have sex with me in junior high, all I`m saying, is that I`m not gay, you know? People confuse the lyrics for me speaking my mind. I don`t agree with that lifestyle, but if that lifestyle is f...
Eminem
This man has been such an inspiration to me in my career. His voice and his ability to cut me down with his lyrics is just astounding. (On Peter Gabriel)
Darren Hayes
So much of my heart is in my music. If you pay close attention to the lyrics, you can get a much better perception of who I am when my guard is down.
Bethany Lenz
It made me so happy. On my song Whoops Now,` I even used the lyrics, `I`m out in the sun having fun with my friends` [from that song]. There`s also the Turtles` `Happy Together` and the Association`s `Windy` and Simon and Garfunkel`s `Feelin` Groovy.` Tho...
Janet Jackson
For me, `Wish You Were Here` was very satisfying. I`d rather listen to it than Dark Side Of The Moon. I think we achieved a better balance of music and lyrics. `Dark Side` went a bit too far the other way -- too much importance was placed on the lyrics. A...
David Gilmour
For me, `Wish You Were Here` was very satisfying. I`d rather listen to it than Dark Side Of The Moon. I think we achieved a better balance of music and lyrics. `Dark Side` went a bit too far the other way -- too much importance was placed on the lyrics. A...
David Gilmour
[on Elvis Presley in 1957] Sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons; and by means of its almost imbecilic reiterations and sly, lewd - in plain fact, dirty - lyrics it manages to be the martial music of every sideburned delinquent on ...
Frank Sinatra
Yeah. Yeah, that was mine. Like I said, Tracii ( Guns ) gave me CD filled with music and I came up with lyrics and melody lines and stuff.
Ashley Kelly
When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it`s composition. If you don`t understand what it`s about, you`re depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.
Dexter Gordon
When we started seeing some of the vile and filthy lyrics ... we thought we should get involved, ... Jonesboro is a wonderful city because of what does not come here.
Anna Ballan
We`re thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, ac...
Beth Gibbons
We`re thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, ac...
Beth Gibbons
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
[describing how he and wife Annette O`Toole go about writing a song`s music and lyrics] When we`ve done it - and this sounds like I`m talking about sex, doesn`t it? - we`ve done it every way you can.
Michael McKean
