Music Lyrics Quotes

Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean.

I would do a documentary about Jay-Z. Yes, I would.

I love Usher's 'Confessions.'

John Prine in particular... just the chord changes combined with the words. He definitely can make you cry a little bit. Just a little bit.

Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done.

My daughter is 15. None of her friends know who the hell Chris Rea is, but they know that song - as soon as it comes on, they start singing it. I've played with everyone from Status Quo to Talk Talk, but nothing impresses them as much as the fact that I play on 'Driving Home for Christmas.'

With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.

What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say.

I just don't get that new hot music. I don't know anything about all these groups like U2.

Drinking and partying never appealed to me in lyrics - they don't have a lot of meaning behind them.

Pop songs now, they're about the aftermath of love.

I'm a big fan of Kid Cudi. He was, like, the only concert I think I went to as a kid. He was on tour with Asher Roth.

I was talking to my dad about the stuff he grew up listening to, and 'Operation: Mindcrime' is a record that he had always talked about around the house. He always talked about it as the 'greatest concept album of all time.' One day, I started listening to it, and it just hit me. I was like, 'These songs are all hits. They're all huge songs.'

I have no idea about the state of rap. I don't pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.

I like Kanye and Kendrick Lamar.

I love Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, and Miguel.

I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.

Punjabi songs have been a rage in Bollywood since a very long time. The lyrics' beat and the meaning behind them give an emotional touch to their lives and connects with youth.

I am a big Beatles fan. And, you know, unbeknownst to anyone, I used to be one. But I have no problems of putting titles and lines from other songs in my songs, because they're great lines and great titles.

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.

I rock with Chance, I rock with Kanye, I rock with Common.

I am one of the barbarians - I love rock and roll.

Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.