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The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.

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Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realise that.

Important Last Long Lyrics
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I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way.

Lyrics Tune Interpret I
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When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics.

Music Happy Lyrics Enjoy
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All my early lyrics were about confidence.

About Confidence Early Lyrics
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Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I write lyrics, and I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me.

All-Around Although Around Funny
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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.

Big Came Got Had
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I don’t really know what a hit battle is but I’m willing to go toe to toe with ANY worthy challenger. Lyrically, musically, physically. However they want it

Lyrically Musically Physically Hit battle
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I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.

Wrote Lyrics That Were
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You can be very efficient with lyrics, and you can get the heart fluttering or soaring or make someone cry with a really amazing dance song.

You Can Be Very
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
Come Flow Great Believer
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.

Art Everybody Great Lives
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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.

Appear Ever Factor Forget
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.

Actual Any Before Beginning
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My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.

Fight Figure Job Lyric
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The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.

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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.

About Actually Business Hardcore
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Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
Beautiful Melody Lyrics Messed
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My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive.
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Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

Masses Sexuality
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

About Beauty Did Famous
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If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.
Actually Beneath Dissect Going
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I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.

Addicted Behind Believe Concept
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Lyricists play with words.
Play Words Lyricist
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A good song has to have a great melody, and the lyrics have to touch my heart. Now, if it's just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can't make you feel good.

Another Feel FeelGood Good
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I am very into lyrics. I start with what the words are saying, what the storyline is saying, like a good script. It should really capture me, do something for me. If I don't get it, it's not going to move people, and if it's not going to move people, it's not going to happen.
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Five years before 'Port of Miami,' I was to a point where I may have even felt like quitting... the style and the wordplay of my lyricism was more complex than what Miami was used to.

Before Complex Even Felt
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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Bids Consolation Corner Create
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I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Group Jazz Liked Lyrics
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You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.

Ask Because Explain Lyrics
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'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.

Blues Country Kind Lyrical
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Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what they are writing.

Believe Cause Colour Deeply
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I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.

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I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

First Go Here Lyric
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events

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Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme

The feeling Stranded Wrong time Love
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I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day.

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My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards.

Music Lyrics Emotional Postcards
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I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.

Write Music Time Lyrics
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I think the melody is the first time I hear in a song and if I like the melody, then I'll pay closer attention to the lyrics.

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Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

Imagination Lyrics Science fiction
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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

Death Tragic Truth Secret
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