Lyric Importance Quotes

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

I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.

Music is first, lyrics are secondary.

Lyrics are so important, but they're really underrated.

People tend to put too much focus on the lyrics. It's not the be-all and end-all of our songs.

Lyrics became important for a while in the late Seventies. Patti Smith was a poet and a rock star, as much one as the other, the distinctions were a bit blurred and then you get swept up in it. Punk poet, it's a good enough term.

I feel that I have to say something in a song and that it's not just enough to lay down the music.

Catchy lyrics are being given more importance.

I'm really big into lyrics in my own songs, so I look up to Drake in that aspect.

You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no good at singing a song unless it has a good lyric.

Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.

Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.

Lyrics are really important for me.

I was pretty strict in high school about who I would listen to. Musicians like Neil Young, Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell... who were, in my opinion, great writers. The music mattered, but it held hands with the lyrics, and the personality was, overall, unsullied.

And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.

Lyrical content is very important to me. I'm always trying to make sure the lyrics and music complement each other perfectly.

I'd say almost that words come first, melody second.

In my early years, I was much too ignorant and didn't realize how desperately important it all is, how really important the lyrics are. And for me as a singer, I am a lady who takes the lyrics first.

For me, singing was always about the lyrics. I'm hopeless at singing songs that don't have a core.

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

For me, music always leads. Lyrics are only about how they sing. It is wonderful if they read well, too. In the very best scenario, sometimes a lyric will pop out with a melody, simultaneously. That's a lovely thing, but you can't rely on that.

I consider myself a lyrics guy.

I only like songs with strong lyrics.

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.

Lyrics mean a lot to me, and I won't record a song unless I can feel it. That's something I learned from Carter Stanley. Even when he wasn't perfect technically, he got inside a song and sold it emotionally.