Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.
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.
My most revered hero is Robert Johnson. His lyrics are so consistent with rap: the danger, the boldness, the creativity.
Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.
With his compulsively slamming lyrics and king-of-the-world delivery, DMX intuitively echoes the existentialism of the projects of the novelist Donald Goines.
In the early '90s, my cousin gave me a Snoop Dogg cassette tape, and the rawness of the lyrics were something new to me.
I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
I think I enjoy Sondheim so much because of the lyrics. The lyrics, the cornucopia of options.
I used to print out lyrics from Nas songs and write my own lyrics in the same syllable count but with different words and different rhymes.
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.
There's such a rich trove of unheard Howard Ashman lyrics that we're so blessed to draw from.
'Chandelier' took, like, four minutes to write the chords, then, like, 12-15 minutes to write the lyrics. Probably 10 or 15 minutes to cut the vocals.