Lydia Lunch Quotes

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

I generally, you know, I don't - I don't really scat. I'm - I'm basically a songwriter so you need a little lyrics that rhyme and stuff.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission.

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect.

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

I like to find music that shares a rhythm with the sentences I'm working on. And though I'll probably regret saying this, I think some songs actually don't sound too bad when they're played through lousy speakers.

It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end and interact and exchange energy with a live audience.