Quotes about Lyrics
Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever have… redemption songs; redemption songs.
— Bob Marley
My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.
— Dolly Parton
When we're in trouble, it's usually a line from a song that saves us. I wish it was sermons, but, I'm sorry, it's not. When you're in crisis, what comes to mind is 'O love that would not let me go.' You know?
— Gloria Gaither
To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it or get a great idea and you want to write it.
— Amy Grant
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
— Joseph Addison
I love co-writing. That whole process is a challenge in that good writers are pushing you.
— Lauren Daigle
Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.
— Dolly Parton
Sex and violence, he thinks now. A lot of the songs were about that. We didn't even notice. We thought it was art.
— Margaret Atwood
It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, 'What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?'
— Malala Yousafzai
Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.
— John Milton
I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.
— Reba McEntire
I'm a big hip hop fan.
— Jonah Hill