Definition of Lyric

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Definition of Lyric
	Lyric Alt. of Lyrical A lyric poem; a lyrical composition. A composer of lyric poems. A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; -- used chiefly in the plural. The words of a song. Related Definitions: Alt, Chiefly, Composer, Composition, Employed, In, Kind, Lyric, Lyrical, Of, Plural, Poem, Poetry, Song, The, Used, Verse

Lyric Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?
Jim Capaldi

I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.
Leo Kottke

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.
Jim Capaldi

Lyric Translations

lyric in Afrikaans is teks
lyric in Dutch is tekst
lyric in Finnish is teksti
lyric in French is lyrique, texte
lyric in German is lyrisch
lyric in Italian is lirico
lyric in Norwegian is lyrisk
lyric in Spanish is texto
lyric in Swedish is lyrisk

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