Top 271 Lyrical Quotes & Sayings

jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.

Every song with lyrics is lyrical.

I started as a lyrical singer. But it was through the pop universe that I reached international fame.

I've always tried to be kind of poetic in my lyrical approach.

As I am a lyrical singer, I really have to work hard. I'm still really training on a daily basis on my vocals. Because of the lyrical training, it never really ends.

I am used to making people upset and uncomfortable with my lyrical content when it comes to music.

I listen to a lot of Biggie, he's so lyrical.

It's rare when I feel like I can extract a lyrical message out of combining two things together.

I danced with Jacques d'Amboise. At that time, he was the tallest man in the company. So it was a different kind of choreography. It was lyrical.

I'm no lyrical stylist, you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf.

I can rippity rap, lyrical miracle all day, but if you don't have a message behind it and you not saying nothing, it doesn't make sense.

I'm the lyrical vendor, hip-hop is my shop

It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.

I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony.

My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an appropriate tool for exploring that.

My lyrical content is all about entertainment.

Drake is a lyrical genius, and he's great with melodies, and Pharrell is an amazing producer and songwriter.

I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by my obedience, not my ability to confine my lyrics to this box or that.

All the lyrical rappers I know is broke.

I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.

My skills are musical, not lyrical.

Sometimes you can publish a first novel in a kind of lyrical flourish, but it is not really a lyrical form. The beautiful truths about the world are more hard won than that. Novels should be bleach boned. It's a question of cumulative observation and lived suffering. It takes time.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

When you think of a chef you think of somebody that could cook - you don't think of chef that says, 'Yo, I make only steaks'. No. A chef knows how to bake, he knows how to fry, he knows how to sautee, he knows how to do everything that's pertaining to food, and that's how I felt about my lyrical position. It's like I would say, 'Today I'm gonna make a hot salmon. Tomorrow I make you spaghetti. The next day I make you baked fish'. This is how my lyrical content in my head was already bein' reciprocated to the world, bein' given to y'all like that.

Lyrical content is very important to me. I'm always trying to make sure the lyrics and music complement each other perfectly.

Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.

'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.

I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.

Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged

Songs are out there - they're waiting to be grabbed. I start with a phrase, musical and lyrical, words like 'I don't think so' and a nice riff. It rolls from there.

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical.

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off.

I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now.

Kindred’s tale is a romantic, mature, and lyrical collage of heaven, hell, and a magical royal legend. The combination is divinely—and demonically—inspired.

'Intimate Apparel' is a lyrical meditation on one woman's loneliness and desire. 'Fabulation' is a very fast-paced play of the MTV generation.

I really appreciate Frank Ocean's lyrical style, I appreciate the way that he can kind of draw you into this personal space, but it's still lyrical. It's almost poetic, in a way, but it's very personal at the same time.

Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard trying to distinguish between the author's persona and the poem's lyrical hero. As a rule, such distinctions are quite meaningless, if only because a lyrical hero is invariably an author's self-projection.

Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or a routine change of place, for an everyday event with a lyrical value that I did not sense at the time, to become suddenly adorned with a radiant echo, the echo ordinarily reserved only for those memories which have been standing for many years in the powerful fixative of lyrical oblivion.

Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.

Yo, I'm god incarnate. From the grimiest back blocks. Pazienza lyrical equivalent of Sasquatch

I think the language of science is highly lyrical and evocative and an important part of our lives in many ways.

You can be a permanent fixture in my lyrical mixture.

Once we start hitting lyrical themes that can whack you from all these different perspectives, we know we're onto something special.

How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch

That's the bulk of my lyrical output - being confused and trying to find answers to my confusion.

Dean Magraw so liquid, lyrical and effortless it's like listening to a dancer.

The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.

A lot of time, I'd spell things in standard English instead of phonetically because I want people to understand what's going on. It's also very lyrical, and the great thing about lyrical prose is even when you're not totally sure of the words, you can be swayed by the musicality of it.

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

Science produces an incomparably lyrical state in this man.

The artists with lyrical content and who say something seem to outlast the fad rappers - I always noticed that.