Lyric Quotes

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

Last, Stuck, Closing

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.
Brian Eno

Attention, Point, Exist

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

Music, Writing, Backed

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.
Stephen Sondheim

Why, Rich, Poor

Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.
Bryan Adams

Time, Social, Both

I don't really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I'm not operating on somebody's brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it's all funny.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Funny, Forget, Mean

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.
James Taylor

Here, Write, Opposite

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

Joy, Whole, Gift

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

Truth, Poetry, Fact

Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren't moving around. Who wants to do that? It's like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetson who's flying around space. If I'm a kid, I wanna be kicking it with Elroy.
will.i.am

Music, Today, Moving

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
Norman Douglas

Respect, Society, Find

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
Vanessa Paradis

Good, Someone, Else

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.
Eugenio Montale

Great, Poetry, Human

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.
Barry Gibb

Night, Takes, Sound

Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.
Malcolm Mclaren

Rock, Mean, Trying

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

Understand, Song, Step

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.
Neil Diamond

Music, Words, Thought

He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I think that's the key and that's the magic, it's making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they're on the dance floor.
Deborah Cox

Through, Dance, Making

The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.
Sheryl Crow

Great, Start, Once

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

Looking, Songs, Meaningful

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

Play, Sound, Sounds

The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul.
Jon Landau

Soul, Young, American

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.
Barry Manilow

Tell, American, Kids

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.
Trey Anastasio

Character, Learned, Story

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.
Ben Folds

Music, Fight, Job

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

Time, Writing, Started

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

Opinion, Anyone, Influence

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.
Marilyn Hacker

Together, Moment, Read

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

Someone, Different, Else

Gangnam is a territory in Seoul, Korea. I describe it as noble at the daytime and going crazy at the night time. I compare ladies to the territory. So - noble at the daytime, going crazy at the night time - and the lyric says I am the right guy for the lady who is like that.
PSY

Time, Crazy, Night

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