Good Lyric Quotes:

I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.

- Neil Farber

topic: Thinking, Good Lyric, Mood

A good song is a nice set of chords and some good lyrics; a great song is a song that reinvents itself over time. That you can always find something interesting in the more you listen to it - it keeps revealing something to you.

- Bryce Dessner

topic: Song, Nice, Interesting, Something Interesting, Revealing Something

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

- Vanessa Paradis

topic: Terrible, Good Lyric

Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed of most creative writing. ...metaphors support lyrics like bones.

- Pat Pattison

topic: Writing, Support, Creative, User Friendly, Good Lyric

I think it need realness, you should speak on thing that you know about, that you being from, that you experienced or that you been around, you know. I think you need a good hook, good beats and good lyrics.

- Obie Trice

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Hook, Needs, Realness, Good Lyric

I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in.

- Leonard Cohen

source: "Leonard Cohen at 80". Interview with Mark Ellen, www.thetimes.co.uk. September 19, 2014.

topic: Song, Art, Reality, Good Lyric

The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop music, you've got to really listen hard to somebody who's doing a good melody and a good lyric.

- Barry Manilow

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Country, Interesting, Gone, Pop Music, Good Lyric

Well the artists that inspire me were, first of all I would say Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, John Holt, Alton Ellis, Errol Dunkley, Delroy Wilson and Dennis Brown you know. They have unique voice and sweet melody and you know, good lyrics those time yeh. The music was very nice in that time still seen, because you find that even the musical part, the musicians concentrate more on the melody than everything, more than how they concentrate on the money that time you Know

- Gregory Isaacs

topic: Sweet, Nice, Artist, Sam Cooke, Unique Voices