Lyricists Quotes - Page 2

• People always have these debates about who their favourite rapper is. And I think it's based upon what mood that particular person is in. If someone's favourite rapper is a lyricist then they're focused on rhymes or substance. If someone's favourite rapper is a party rapper, you know, someone who makes music about the clubs... "Oh, he's my favourite rapper". No, his subject matter is your favourite.

  Immortal Technique

  Party, Thinking, Rapper

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists are like Lou Reed, kind of the classics - Bob Dylan and stuff like that.

  Andrew VanWyngarden

  Writing, Trying, Bob

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• If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them. We go to countries like Germany, where I can't imagine that all of my fans are engaging with the lyrics first and foremost. I think they're catching a vibe, a feeling. I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back and telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.

  John Darnielle

  Country, Song, Thinking

  "What’s Got John Darnielle’s Goat?". Interview with Emma Silvers, www.motherjones.com. March 25, 2011.

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• Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religiously - and we're talking adult adults, celebrated adults - including James Thurber, Orson Welles, John Steinbeck, Adlai E. Stevenson and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.

  Tom Shales

  Kids, Talking, Adults

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• I don't think I'm the best lyricist; it's hard for me to express feelings through words.

  Ty Segall

  Thinking, Feelings, Hard

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I dont want to work on a musical if Im not the lyricist.

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Musical, Want, Ifs

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• As a writer, as a lyricist, you're just trying to make sure that you're not repeating yourself. And that's a danger for a lot of people. So for me, I just try to keep taking corners and trying to find new paths.

  Corey Taylor

  People, Trying, Path

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Drake, I'd like to collaborate with. He's a phenomenal lyricist. Probably the best rapper in the world at the moment. I love Kanye but there's something about Drake; he's more straight up, really clever and really poetic and metaphorical - I love that. He's just clever.

  Ellie Goulding

  Clever, Rapper, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, even Janet Jackson.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Different, Inspired, Brown

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• I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.

  Harold Prince

  Book, Thinking, People

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• As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.

  Rick Wakeman

  Cousin, Class, Stuff

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• A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

  Mike Gordon

  Songwriting, Singer-songwriters, Collaborators

  Interview with Brian Feller, phish.net. April 18, 1993.

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• I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.

  Erykah Badu

  Writing, Elements, Patterns

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• Someone should have a record that doesn't have any singing. It's my favorite Miles Davis record. I love hanging out in the summer, in New York, when it's miserably hot. I love electric Miles Davis in the summer. Jack Johnson, the songwriting especially, is a premier example of that. It always makes me feel hot in the city. It's also nice to have something not yelling in your ear. For me, as a lyricist, it's nice to put on something without any words.

  Craig Finn

  Summer, New York, Nice

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• Courtney Love's name should be right next to Bob Dylan when they say best lyricist of all time.

  Linda Perry

  Names, Bob, Next

  "Love Wants Her Throne Back On New Album". www.billboard.com. October 20, 2006.

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• I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist.

  Mike Gordon

  Song, Writing, Cutting

  Interview with Brian Feller, phish.net. April 18, 1993.

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• I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist.

  Missy Elliot

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• I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she's a great lyricist, and she makes interesting choices.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Inspiration, School, Thinking

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• I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

  David Bowie

  Britain, Rate, Ferry

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a lyricist, you love to hear other great lyrics or other great concepts.

  Alicia Keys

  Great Lyric, Concepts

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• Lyricists play with words.

  Paul McCartney

  Play

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• I love all kinds of music. Everybody knows that Nas is my favorite lyricist in the universe. I'd love to collaborate with him on something.

  Tony Sunshine

  Kind, My Favorite, Knows

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• My identity is mostly as a songwriter and lyricist and singer. I also have a lot of production ideas but I have my own limitations in terms of what instruments I'm actually proficient at and what I can do myself, so I really love working with people on the production end; just really going for it with orchestration and instrumentation and production. That's where I see myself going: maintaining my integrity and abilities as a songwriter, but applying it to different contexts, to where I can put on a huge feathered costume and roll around in the ocean.

  Mirah

  Integrity, Ocean, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As much as I try to grow as a lyricist, I tend to laugh at even calling myself that, because I think that my actual talents lie more in arrangements than they do words.

  Zach Condon

  Lying, Thinking, Laughing

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• I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back here telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.

  John Darnielle

  Play, People, Sitting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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