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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

— Laura Marling

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

— Beck

I think when you translate songs, you lose the real essence and the meaning.

— Prince Royce

Always when I write my music, I take my guitar, and I improvise always with a melody, you know, lyrics in Spanish. But sometimes I use some words in English. I don't know why. Maybe because I listen to a lot of music in English.

— Juanes

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

— Robert Frost

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

— Cass McCombs

I feel that I speak the musical language.

— Marsha Norman

When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.

— Banks

The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.

— Utada Hikaru

✗Opposing Perspectives

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

— David Byrne

I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

— Cyndi Lauper