Top 390 Lyric Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.
When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.
It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing.
My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.
It's such a weird process, songwriting, because you just have to feel it. There's no right or wrong melody or lyric.
I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job
It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.
'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun.
For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.
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.
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
It's not only about the rap lyric. Today, people are buying you as a person.
My music is basically all about witty punchlines and lyric progression that is aimed to make you laugh or say "Woah."
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.
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.
When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!
I'm lyric conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.
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.
I write a lyric, but when I reread it, I think it's awful and either hide it or crumple it up.
I've wanted to do a Christmas song for years but thought every lyric and melody had been written.
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
I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality.
I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.
Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home.'
I usually start with a lyric or a melody and then build a song around that.
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 ethos and critique are of poetry, which becomes a rich dark with a phosphorescence of lyric as witness.
The country is lyric, the town dramatic. When mingled, they make the most perfect musical drama.
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.
He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.
Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing.
We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.
Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.
I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
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.
The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.
Everything on the radio is metaphorical in a bad way. But when I write a lyric, like "bang my box," that's pretty clear.
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.
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.
[Kino] worked really well as a song title, and to build into a lyric, and also how we embraced mulit-media at the time.
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.
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.'
Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home'.
For me, whenever I choose a song to sing, it's about the lyric first.
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
I'm always creating. Whether I'm writing a lyric or making a beat, every day I'm doing something.
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.
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 Curtis Mayfield made 'Super Fly,' he used the lyric to make a statement.
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.
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.
In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of.
I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.
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.
In our hands, even the straightest lyric sounded shady.
Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
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.
If I was an owl, I would peck your eyes out. Wow this lyric is ****ing brilliant.
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.
