Top 1200 Good Lyric Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.

I'm a lyric man - I'm always looking for meaningful songs.

I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job

The name Dirtee Stank came from a lyric I had when I was 17 or 16. Lyrical tank, like my name was Frank, going on dirty, going on stank. It sounded like a good name!

It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing.

I always take notes on my phone of lyric ideas.

I'm always creating. Whether I'm writing a lyric or making a beat, every day I'm doing something.

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.

When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.

We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.

My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.

I usually start with a lyric or a melody and then build a song around that.

Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing.

The ethos and critique are of poetry, which becomes a rich dark with a phosphorescence of lyric as witness.

A lot of times when I'm performing a song, it tends to take me back to where I was psychologically as the lyric was being written.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

When Curtis Mayfield made 'Super Fly,' he used the lyric to make a statement.

I'm lyric conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.

I usually start with a lyric and see where that takes me.

I try and journal every day, and that's where a lot of my lyric comes from.

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.

I write a lyric, but when I reread it, I think it's awful and either hide it or crumple it up.

The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

Within TG, we liberated the use of the lyric forever. There was no longer a taboo on what could be discussed in the conceptual format of a song.

I said if a woman sings an aggressive guy's lyric, it can't miss.

'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun.

It's such a weird process, songwriting, because you just have to feel it. There's no right or wrong melody or lyric.

Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home'.

I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality.

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

If I was an owl, I would peck your eyes out. Wow this lyric is ****ing brilliant.

The country is lyric, the town dramatic. When mingled, they make the most perfect musical drama.

I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.

Everything on the radio is metaphorical in a bad way. But when I write a lyric, like "bang my box," that's pretty clear.

landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated.

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

Poetry, first and foremost, is the lyric. It's the music.

Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it.

For me, whenever I choose a song to sing, it's about the lyric first.

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

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

In our hands, even the straightest lyric sounded shady.

I've wanted to do a Christmas song for years but thought every lyric and melody had been written.

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.

Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home.'

It's not only about the rap lyric. Today, people are buying you as a person.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

I don't spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyric or this or that. I just want to be happy with it myself - and if other people like it, that's great.

I don't really usually write sort of a cheerleader-type lyric.

My music is basically all about witty punchlines and lyric progression that is aimed to make you laugh or say "Woah."

I don't really care about audio quality. If people saw some of the ways that I record stuff, they'd see I don't care in that respect. I obviously care about things sounding good, but I think quality exists through other things like emotionally connecting with a lyric or a feeling, or whatever.

In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of.