Lyrical Quotes

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
Peabo Bryson

Music, Happiness, Alone

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.
Tim Burton

Work, Nature, Growing

I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.
Carlos Santana

Rest, Blues, Player

Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else.
Jarvis Cocker

Music, Brain, Free

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

Political, Find, Numbers

I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
R. Kelly

Music, Romantic, Sexy

Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.
Gwen Stefani

Hard, Try, Working

Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.
Evelyn Glennie

Family, Challenge, Project

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.
Alicia Keys

Time, Same, Personal

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last. Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.
John Legend

Music, Try, Talk

Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.
John Legend

Music, Talk, Start

I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.
Talib Kweli

Music, Knowledge, Through

That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.
Ville Valo

Music, Writing, Different

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.
Robert Morgan

Character, Black, Voice

I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody.
Emmy Rossum

Love, Age, Different

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

Different, Special, Start

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.
Herb Alpert

Singing, Instrument, Trumpet

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

Love, Mind, Someone

A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.
Thurston Moore

Ideas, Meaning, Although

It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest.
Glenn Tipton

Working, Musicians, Band

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.
Jimmy Chamberlin

Seen, Anyway, Drumming

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

Perfect, Pick, Describe

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.
Glenn Hughes

Deep, While, Days

When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time.
Kiri Te Kanawa

Music, Time, Happy

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.
Mark Edwards

Good, Bad, Sometimes

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.
Tom Paulin

Wish, Write, Poems

Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.
Tom Morello

Music, Through, Three

I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.
William Scott

Lost, Liberty, Become

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