Mutinies Lyrics Quotes

A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics. ~ Kailash Kher

I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics. ~ Alanis Morissette

Chance is your god
Though you're falling free you will land hard ~ Criss Jami

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. ~ Stephen Sondheim

Good lyrics always drown me with them till they cease to flow. ~ Balroop Singh

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody. ~ Ken Hensley

New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts. ~ Harry Hershfield

We gladiate, but I guess we're really fighting ourselves. ~ Lorde

Lyrics are really important for me. ~ Gavin Rossdale

First we start with the lyrics. Most of the lyrics are done by Stefan Kaufmann and me. When we have enough lyrics and enough stories we have the lines to make titles. Then we collect all the ideas of everybody in the band and see which ideas fit together the best with the lyrics to get the right atmosphere. That's the way we compose. ~ Udo Dirkschneider

I'm kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air,
So there. ~ Lorde

Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked between son and father. This ~ William Shakespeare

Sometimes we focus too much on the lyrics that we forget to dance to the music. And sometimes we dance to the music and don't listen to the lyrics. Let the rhythm guide you. Let the lyrics inspire you. ~ Alexa Anderson

We're so happy, even when we're smiling out of fear. ~ Lorde

I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really. ~ Nick Cave

I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry. ~ Patti LaBelle

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. ~ Brian Eno

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically. ~ Brian Eno

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that. ~ Leon Bridges

I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way. ~ Kylie Minogue

We treat the lyrics like the woman any man wants to impress the most. We give the lyrics all the attention we can. I'm not sure other formats are remembering that the lyrics are what it's all about. ~ Garth Brooks

And nothing's wrong when nothing's true
But I live in a hologram with you. ~ Lorde

You win some, you learn some. ~ Jason Mraz

I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics. ~ Courtney Love

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good? ~ Douglas Coupland

I kind of need to be ambulatory to write lyrics. ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about. ~ Brian Eno

Frank [Zappa] was not a big fan of having lyrics, but sometimes he had things to say that lent themselves to lyrics. ~ Gail Zappa

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation. ~ Criss Jami

I don't believe in following a path set by others. You have to create a path for yourself. ~ Lyrics Born

Maybe the key to finding the perfect song is simply rewriting the lyrics. ~ Kandi Steiner

My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive. ~ Tyler, The Creator

But I always loved songs with great lyrics. ~ Johnny Rivers

I don't know why, but there's a certain element of panic in writing lyrics that I'm not sure I enjoy. I don't write lyrics first, ever. I've never done that. So, in a sense, the lyrics are a bit of an afterthought - it's music first. ~ Mike Patton

Everything must change, nothing and no one goes unchanged. ~ Everything Must Change Lyrics

I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. ~ Freddie Mercury

I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing it. ~ Kim Gordon

So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well. ~ Billy Sherwood

I don't really plan what comes out of my mouth, and that's what makes most of my lyrics entertaining. ~ Kesha

I like my lyrics to feel conversational and truthful, as if we're having real talk. I don't really like generic lyrics. ~ Meredith Brooks

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone. ~ Joni Mitchell

A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on. ~ Gordon Waller

It's really important that my lyrics are truthful. ~ Lianne La Havas

Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep. ~ Utada Hikaru

I don't write lyrics, the lyrics write Thom Yorke ~ Thom Yorke

Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean. ~ Rachel Platten

I didn't even write the lyrics down. I got in the booth, I put down a little guitar riff and the idea I had was it was going to be really simple, I just want it to be all about the lyrics and I just literally sang the lyrics. ~ Benji Madden

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics. ~ Ezra Koenig

While you're singing something romantic, I can't get the lyrics to 'Love and Marriage' out of my head, and that tune always reminds me of the jingle from Jeopardy. ~ E.A. Bucchianeri

The Smiths hasn't been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance. ~ Jeff Buckley

You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it. ~ Lou Reed

Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere. ~ Carla H. Krueger

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together. ~ Jim Capaldi

My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards. ~ Sarah McLachlan

Anything not founded on truth will fall eventually; like a castle made of sand melts into the sea. ~ Elaborate Version Of Jimi Hedrix Song Lyrics

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

I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to. ~ Fetty Wap

If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other. ~ Kacey Musgraves

Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends. ~ Sade Adu

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. ~ Elvis Presley

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important. ~ Brian Eno

I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing 'Smog.' ~ Bill Callahan

I am always getting ideas for song lyrics and keep a notebook handy. Nowadays, I take a laptop with me everywhere, because I have a stock of handwritten lyrics in it. ~ Kou Shibasaki

Every song deserves lyrics. Deserves a story to tell. ~ Courtney C. Stevens

You would find in a lot of Zep stuff that the riff was the juggernaut that careered through and I worked the lyrics around this. ~ Robert Plant

I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes. ~ Neil Peart

I'll be there someday, I can go the distance.
I will find my way, if I can be strong.
I know every mile, will be worth my while,
When I go the distance, I'll be right where I belong. - Hercules ~ Walt Disney Company

I privilege the music over the lyrics. ~ Duncan Sheik

My mind is killing me
- The Glass Child, Stuck In My Mind ~ Charlotte Eriksson

Sometimes we focus on the lyrics too much and forget to dance to the music. ~ Alexa Anderson

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away. ~ Matt Berninger

God is great, but sometimes life ain't good and when I pray it doesn't always turn out like I think it should. But I do it anyway. ~ Martina Mcbride~lyrics From "Anyway"

Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it. ~ William Shakespeare

A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song. ~ John Mellencamp

The music and lyrics of Rodgers & Hammerstein connect seamlessly. Singing those beautiful songs was a joyous experience for me, and one that I will never forget. ~ Julie Andrews

Music is the secret language that effortlessly connects our bodies, our minds, and our souls. I'm addicted to the lyrics - they speak to me in a way only he and I will understand. So, until it's safe to speak my mind, I'll speak to him through lyrics. I'm addicted to him. He's a song I never want to end. ~ Hope Alcocer

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story. ~ Kate Smith

Am I the only one
wishing life away?
Never caught up in the moment
busy begging the past to stay
Memories painted with much brighter ink;
they tell me I loved, teach me how to think. ~ Dodie Clark

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there. ~ Stephen Sondheim

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
this brokenness inside me might start healing.
Out here its like I'm someone else,
I thought that maybe I could find myself
if I could just come in I swear I'll leave.
Won't take nothing but a memory
from the house that built me. ~ Miranda Lambert

I used to do more melodic stuff, and I used to do more actual rap - like traditional hip hop vocals. I think my method of storytelling has led me to this point, at which I want to pare down my style. I think I give the lyrics more thought, and then when I try to perform the lyrics over the track I'll try it over and over again, and eventually the lyrics will sink into the track by the way I project them. ~ Galcher Lustwerk

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa. ~ Harry Connick, Jr.

I have to decide whether I'm just laying down a groove, kind of a bed and canvas for the lyrics and music to live on, or trying to illustrate something in the lyrics. ~ Glenn Kotche

You can go the distance
You can go the mile
You can walk straight through hell with a smile ~ The Script

Finally I started really opening up as a songwriter and an interpreter and taking songs from all kind of genres and stripping them down to just lyrics and the story inside the lyrics, and trying to make them really mine. ~ Lizz Wright

You can get into a comfort zone writing lyrics, like wearing a mask. But I wanted to feel uncomfortable when I was listening back to [the lyrics]; I wanted to squirm. ~ Yannis Philippakis

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time. ~ Don McLean

I would say the songs that have different lyrics. I always write the music first, and there's a couple of songs on this box set that have different lyrics from what ended up on the final recording. ~ Billy Joel

Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem. ~ Emmanuel Jal

I liked old time music but what i meant by that was the period from the 1930s through the 60s, nothing before and little after.
Performers like fats waller, Sinatra, billie holiday, louis armstrong, rosemary clooney, ella, sammy Davis Jr, dean martin ... If the lyrics weren't stupid. Words were important. ~ Jeffery Deaver

Be students
Be teachers
Be politicians
Be preachers
Be believers
Be astronauts
Be champions
Be truth seekers ~ The Script

My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by powerful lyrics. Put together, the lyrics, tune and my voice strive to take the songs to the next level. ~ Kailash Kher

When I write songs, I like to write lyrics first, and I think that's different from a lot of singer-songwriters. But I heard Sammy Cahn was asked what comes first, the lyrics or the music, and he said, 'The paycheck.' ~ Jill Sobule

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it. ~ Joni Mitchell

Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten. ~ Quincy Jones

This was where she belonged with Nur, right here, here in his songs. Here within the lyrics they were intimate, caught in the rythm of his words, proppelled by the substance of his dreams.
These songs would be their story and these lyrics their home. ~ Leila Aboulela

I want to say my life inspires my lyrics, but I also try to abstract them as much as possible because I don't want to refer to my life explicitly. I'm definitely really embarrassed by my lyrics. ~ Grimes

Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff. ~ Cass McCombs

Yeah, you can be the greatest
You can be the best
You can be the King Kong banging on your chest ~ The Script

I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me. ~ Sharon Van Etten