Lyric Meaning Quotes

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

Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody.

There are many songs that have become popular and people sing along with it without knowing the meaning of its lyrics.

We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music

"On Script" is one of my favorite songs I've ever written. I'd just been jamming on it one day, and again I was struggling with lyrics. I'm still figuring out what it's about. I've seen a couple of reviews that are like, "It's about the monotony of playing the same songs every night," because I say, "On script every night/Like a well-rehearsed stage show." It's not about that at all, but I find that funny, how people project what they think about me, or songwriters in general.

We singers have a different level of responsibility from other musicians. We have words that we must convey; we have meanings that we must convey through these lyrics.

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.

When you break out the acoustic guitar, the words are the focal point unless you're the Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar. So the words have to have meaning.

For me, lyrics are the most important thing in a song. And if they don't have meaning, I would never sing them - unless and until someone who loves your work asks me to do so.

So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

Back in the day it was like, I got a great record from a great producer and writer and it's a hit single, so let's sing it. But it's different when you're really living out your lyrics.

A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

People come up to me with tattoos of my lyrics!

Whether my lyrics are about love or something else, I always make sure I'm connecting with my fans, and to see their support is definitely a motivation.

I want to touch people's lives with my music and my lyrics.

In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.

Every song with lyrics is lyrical.

When Curtis Mayfield made 'Super Fly,' he used the lyric to make a statement.

It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs. Take 'Rearviewmirror', we start off with the music and it kinds of propels the lyrics. It made me feel like I was in a car, leaving something, a bad situation. There's an emotion there. I remembered all the times I wanted to leave.

I know my lyrics might be weird to some, but they're not like that to me because I know where they come from - I know the secret.

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.

With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.

I can go write an absolutely saccharine pop record with a really catchy lyric for another artist that could become a hit without meaning anything to me, but that's more the science laboratory, that's the other thing.