Top 490 Lyrics Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Lyrics Quotes from famous people such as Darius Rucker, Josephine de La Baume, Delilah, A. R. Rahman, Kailash Kher, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I always tell people, the first time I heard 'She Talks

I always tell people, the first time I heard ‘She Talks To Angels,’ those lyrics did something to me.
Darius Rucker
Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else’s writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn’t. But they are both creative and personal in completely different ways.
Josephine de La Baume
‘Endless Love’ is such a perfect love song for a wedding or for a Valentine, because that is the committed kind of endless love. All the lyrics are perfect.
Delilah
I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also like taking a great melody and putting lyrics into it.
A. R. Rahman
My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by powerful lyrics. Put together, the lyrics, tune and my voice strive to take the songs to the next level.
Kailash Kher
I really love ‘Cold Song.’ If anyone really listens to that song and thinks about their life, there’s a lot of good material deep down in there. I think if you listen to the lyrics, it may take you on some sort of a journey.
Benji Madden
Let’s be honest, ‘Ginza’ doesn’t really have lyrics to speak of. It’s a party track – a party for reggaetoneros to come out of the closet.
J Balvin
If you take a song like ‘We Will, We Will Rock You,’ ‘You got blood on your face… ‘ – he’s rhyming on that! And if you take the lyrics out of that song, you get a hip-hop beat. It’s a rock song, though. So it’s not out of my element for me to get with Black Lips.
Gza
I’m usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I’m happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.
Rex Orange County
How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That’s all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?
Robert Plant
I love having those lyrics that at first make you think it’s about one thing, but it’s really about something so much more.
Jon Pardi
I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to perform. I’ve just initiated the project. That leads the project into creating an independent label outside of game music.
Nobuo Uematsu
But the classic Tenacious D songwriting is Jack or myself will have an idea – I might have a riff – and we’ll improv. And once Jack’s feeling it, we turn on the tape recorder and start jamming, improv on that riff, improv on those lyrics, and then go back and see if there’s anything good in there.
Kyle Gass
A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.
Matt Berninger
I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful… a pathos and mythos at the same time.
Ryan Adams
I’ve really been studying lyrics, printing out lyrics to songs I love and reading them like a letter.
Jon Pardi
While I’m grateful for the freedom to express one’s self, I’ve learned there are limits to what language is appropriate and I’m deeply sorry for how these lyrics could be interpreted.
Psy
I was writing lyrics since I was nine years old, so by age 15, I was feeling pretty confident about my talent.
Rza
I’m not a ‘real rapper’; I just like to talk about what I’ve been through. When I was younger, I just said random, stupid lyrics and censored myself because I was worried about what people would think. But now I’ve become more mature with my words and uncensored.
Metta World Peace
Sometimes, I feel like my lyrics meander a little bit, and our songs are so big I need to write more words than are necessary.
M. Shadows
I remember when I started writing lyrics, I was very grand. I tried to use a lot of symbols,because I thought that’s how songwriting should be – with imagery and metaphor. I figured, after a while, maybe I should just write it as I would say in real life.
Sigrid
I do think my lyrics have gotten… not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they’re less literal.
Lindsey Buckingham
I stand behind all the lyrics I’ve ever written; I don’t have a problem with that.
Ian MacKaye
As ‘Dilbar’ has become a huge hit internationally, including Middle East, we have taken the song and re-composed it, written Arabic and Moroccan lyrics, and we recorded, with me singing with Fnaire.
Nora Fatehi
That’s pretty much how every song of mine works – I start with gibberish and melody and phrasing. I speak it naturally first. And then I think about lyrics that fit into that.
Kelela
As a songwriter who uses lyrics to connect with others, it made perfect sense for me to partner with Hallmark, the leading greeting card brand that also uses words to help people make meaningful connections.
Cody Simpson
Anyone who’s ever read the lyrics of an already cherished song has most likely encountered that hollow sensation of something missing, the absence of certain emotional integers. It can be like viewing a loved one’s X-rays.
Jonathan Miles
I tried to give the world a bit of creativity, lyrics. And for me, I will always represent music from Puerto Rico, reggaeton, Latin music.
Bad Bunny
The great thing was that both K-Ci and JoJo told me to not make an R&B track that was reminiscent of radio hit records. ‘Make a Gang Starr track and we’ll write our lyrics to that,’ they told me. They couldn’t stress it enough.
DJ Premier
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
Brian Eno
I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.
Kylie Minogue
There's no magic for getting into the groove... just ba

There’s no magic for getting into the groove… just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.
Phil Collins
Remembering growing up on U.S. Army bases stateside and abroad, the Star-Spangled Banner was played at important occasions… and often. It was the first song I learned the lyrics to.
Harris Faulkner
Lizz Wright, we call her lovingly ‘Amazing Grace.’ She has a folk and gospel kind of approach to the music, and she writes beautiful lyrics and songs. She’s like this balm that is really full and very rich and deep.
Dianne Reeves
I think the melody is the first time I hear in a song and if I like the melody, then I’ll pay closer attention to the lyrics.
George Strait
Melody is king, and don’t you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they’re not; they’re just an accompanying factor. If they’re good, you’re really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.
Quincy Jones
I don’t have a favourite romantic scene, but I enjoy romantic movies like ‘Ghost’ and ‘Music and Lyrics.’
Hansika Motwani
When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music – they are music.
Dinah Shore
Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that’s unbelievably talented… then to hear him sing those lyrics of ‘What I’m Thankful For,’ which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.
Garth Brooks
The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for the lyrics to not just pull it off, but to have an appreciation for it.
Lea Salonga
I can’t be bothered to learn Final Draft. I’m not a technical person. Like, when I sing, I just want to sing the melody and write the lyrics.
Sia
When you look at hip-hop, I want to do that: to spit fire and take our best from the ashes to build our kingdom; to recognize all the regional styles, conscious lyrics, the tracks, underground, mainstream, the way we treat each other. Lose the garbage and rebuild our scene.
Rakim
Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.
Babyface
I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.
Lindsay Lohan
I went with a friend to see Frank Sinatra in Las Vegas, in the last year that he was performing. He wasn’t necessarily on top form, but the way he could connect with an audience and the way he communicated through the lyrics was something I hadn’t ever really seen before.
Ron Howard
For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.
Leon Bridges
But I wanted the karaoke-style lyrics in our music videos for two reasons: first, cause nobody has lyric booklets anymore, and when I was growing up, lyric booklets were like little bibles. I want people to be able to access our lyrics without having to go to some gnarly website with banner ads.
Caroline Polachek
I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.
Courtney Love
I wanted to be a poet. I fell in love with poetry around eight years old, but not through literature. Instead, it came through hip-hop lyrics and my obsession with reading liner notes. Queen Latifah’s ‘Black Reign’ is the album that stands out the most.
Jason Reynolds
In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang ’em, I gave myself goosebumps.
Sammy Hagar
My lyrics are more country – what I love is the storytelling and the structure, how tight the rhymes can be. But pop melodies have always been intrinsically linked to my writing style.
Maren Morris
In the beginning of Audioslave, I was very honest. I said, ‘We make great albums and write great albums – but don’t be under the impression I’m going to be a lyricist that writes anything other than what strikes me as inspiring in the moment.’ The lyrics weren’t going to be focused politically.
Chris Cornell
I like Kendrick as an artist. He’s witty and he’s smart when he’s spitting in his lyrics. And he’s crafty.
Redman
Initially we were spitting lyrics over garage beats, in that eight-bar gap where there wasn’t a vocal. But we were rebellious towards garage because they were rebellious towards us; a lot of their gatekeepers said grime was too violent.
Kano