Top 1200 Great Lyric Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative?

A good song is like a mannequin - its form makes sense, but there's no life. There should be memorable melody, thoughtful lyric, appropriate arrangement.

It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.

Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.

[Kino] worked really well as a song title, and to build into a lyric, and also how we embraced mulit-media at the time.

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

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.

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

Anything is food for starting a song. A song can start with a lyric idea or a melody or just a sound that inspires.

I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric

Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent.

That's one of the reasons I got into country music: because of the craft of that lyric and how much you could put into three minutes.

I have a card catalogue in my brain of every lyric of every sappy love song ever written.

When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!

You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no good at singing a song unless it has a good lyric.

I just want people to listen to the music and get something from it, whatever it may be. Whether it's a catchy lyric or a whole situation.

Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

I started cutting my teeth on "Someone To Watch Over Me" [George Gershvin] in the college. I've sung that one for a while. There's something so simple and sweet about that lyric.

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

If I'm writing the music, and I don't feel like its really connecting inside, then I'll know there's no reason to really put a lyric on it; it's a waste, and I'll throw it.

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.

For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.

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.

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

My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'

New lyric writers have become an asset for me. I gave Naseer Faraz a break in 'Aetbaar' and he was up for several awards.

When I discovered the lyric poem, that advanced not by narrative steps but by blocks and layers of imagery, I said, 'Gee, I probably could do that. So let me try that.'

Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.

When I write a song, that process is sort of entwined with a lyric or a chord progression that suits the vibe, and that'll work off each other.

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.

I really don't have a method. I gravitate towards the organic/acoustic, but I still often complete songs musically before attempting to find the lyric.

In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or rock, it can be the other way around.

Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.

There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.

I was an usher at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. You had to watch whatever play they had on 40 times.

The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance brokerin America who owns a pair of white shoes.

When I'm performing, sometimes a lyric will touch on my personal life, and it can be difficult to sing. For instance, when I sing 'How I Love You,' I'll choke up.

It's nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector's item.

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.

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

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.

UNUSED LYRIC I’ve never been to Eden But it’s nice I hear tell When I die I’ll go to heaven ’Cause I’ve done my time in hell

It's funny how the littlest things can make you feel larger than life; the right lyric, the most heartfelt melody, the clearest message. Love.

In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will have its way.

There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.

No matter what road I take, I can never get too far away from the conscious lyric and the socially conscious content.

Sometimes I'll be driving and a lyric will come into my head, and I will have to pull over and record it on my phone.

Illuminated by the same joyful curiosity and erudition, lyric writing, and plain love of life that made a classic of Archie Carr's The Windward Road.

The simpler songs are just done when the lyric has been stated; the more complex or band-oriented stuff can go in a million directions.

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

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

It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.

When I write a song, I get the melody right first, and then hopefully I can back it up with a lyric that has to respect the melody.

I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying to say something, instead of it naturally coming out of me, like I was saying something that I already knew. Anyway, I can't remember what it was. And either I threw it all out or I threw 90 percent of it out, and kept a line or two. That's happened a couple of times to me. Not too often, but a couple of times. Very aggravating when it does happen.

You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.