#lyrics

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#cord #cover #create #expand #hard

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last. Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about. ↗

— John Legend

#because #bunch #come #first #hook

I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to. ↗

— Lindsay Lohan

#i #i can #i write #involved #like

I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#ever #i #lyrics #problem #stand

I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs. ↗

— Howie Mandel

#bobby #how #i #idea #involved

Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves. ↗

— Barry Mann

#cynthia #express #expressed #feelings #felt

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily. ↗

— John Mayer

#assuming #currently #emotion #emotional #experiencing

To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought. ↗

— Bruce McCulloch

#always #deep #doors #fans #getting

To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#kind #lyrics #me #song #style

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that. ↗

— Roger McGuinn

#chord #i #like #lyrics #out