“ Original Lyrics to "Hole" - "Rock Star" How'd you like to be a rock star? Lots of fun to be a rock star I think you'd rather die But I bet you'd like to try How'd you like to be in Nirvana? Barrel of laughs to be in Nirvana How'd you like to be in Nirvana? I think you'd rather die. ”
- Courtney Love- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny. ”
- Jonathan Davis- Copy
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“ A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth. ”
- Milan Kundera- Copy
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“ Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ Two days ago, I was killed in LA. CNN reported that. What if my grandmother had seen that and had a heart attack? People talk about lyrical content. There is no media responsibility. Movies, the porn industry, it has to be across the board or it's ineffective. ”
- Curtis Jackson- Copy
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“ for some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid pieces of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet you or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave… ”
- Anne Lamott- Copy
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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. ”
- Chuck D.- Copy
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“ That was a real contribution to television,... It was pointed out to me after the show by a terribly distressed gentleman. He checked everything. It's as if he checked the lyrics for 'Tea for Two' and failed to check that. I don't know if they had lyrics with them, but he didn't hear it. ”
- Dick Cavett- Copy
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