Famous Quotes & Sayings

Van Morrison

There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets and have an academic stance. They've got something to lose if they say it's all poetry; if there's not music to it, and you have to wear a certain kind of checkered shirt or something like that. It's all the same. Lyrics are lyrics, poetry is poetry, lyrics are poetry, and poetry is lyrics. They are interchangeable to me.

Elizabeth Banks

I only know the lyrics to songs that I listened to between the ages of 11 and 15.

Adam Levine

All I needed to do was sing the lyrics that had already been written. I don't know those guys; they seem kind of kooky and crazy. I like their vibe.

Victoria Beckham

We've still got the melodies, we've still got the nice 'strong girl' lyrics going on.

Joe Johnson

Back then ... if you wanted the lyrics to a song you had to play it on the record and stop it, and then write it down, then play it again, then stop it,

Emmylou Harris

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

Boris Pasternak

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

Richard Madden

I have two sisters, so we watched all of the Disney films. I think I still know the lyrics to them all.

David Lodge

Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry. The natural deduction is that novels are paraphrasable whereas poems are not. But this is a false deduction because close analysis is itself a disguised form of paraphrase.

Angus T. Jones

Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a non-existent character.

Pig Miller

Just like Rockford, everyone else will step up. Just because Snap isn't there doesn't mean it's going to be easy.

Janet Weiss

Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.

Craig Williams

I think it means a lot to the stable

Sophie Winkleman

I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, 'Well, exercise and I just aren't meant to be.'

Humpy Wheeler

We are going to remold the track to take some of the meanness out of it.

Glenn Geffner

There are so many variables. These numbers mean nothing when they're announced.

Jerry Jeff Walker

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Dan Hill

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

Nick Cave

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.

Smokey Robinson

I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.

Tom Typrowicz

It has never been about me. It's about the girls. It's the songs we sing. It's about CCC and tradition.

Mystikal

I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap.

David Nelson

In 1963 we did every one of these songs with Jerry,

Jennifer Zimmerman

These are not songs for women who twirl their parasols. These are songs for women who get dusty.

Kacey Musgraves

It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.

Bob Blyer

I try to play a lot of songs that have 'love' in the title.