#lyric

Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#everyone #exists #horrible #horrible things #liberating

You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#around #chords #convincing #energy #forget

But I don't like working on lyrics publicly in the studio - I prefer to take them away and work on them in my bedroom. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#bedroom #i #like #lyrics #prefer

There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it. ↗

— Nuno Bettencourt

#clothing #facets #go #into #lyrics

It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#difficult #lyricist #me #only #very

I don't want to be in love but you're makin' me ↗

— Jonny Lang

#romance #song-lyrics #love

I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to perform. I've just initiated the project. That leads the project into creating an independent label outside of game music. ↗

— Nobuo Uematsu

#creating #else #game #game music #i

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics. ↗

— Jim Capaldi

#lyrics #picked #point #reins #song

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway. ↗

— Jimmy Chamberlin

#anyway #drumming #i #lyrical #seen

The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really quick and that wasn't what we were about on an organic level. ↗

— Jimmy Chamberlin

#boring #came #environment #fusion #got