Lyrically I'm very ironic and silly, but I hope I'll touch…

“If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it.”

— Jane Austen

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

— Ernest Hemingway

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

— Anonymous

Lyrically I address loads of things that I've never talked about before, about me or about other people.

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

Today's records, even though they may be lyrically repetitive and not saying anything particularly heavy, they have energy.

— Carole King

Someone once said that "The Waste Land" was a scum of poetry floating on a sea of footnotes. That resonated with me, because that's…

— Ted Leo

More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it…

— James Vincent McMorrow

Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do…

— Nikki Sixx

I would feel really dishonest writing a song that was really sassy, or really confident, because I'm not a supremely confident being. I think…

— Shura

I have developed a visionary modern lyric, and, for it, an idiom in which I can write lyrically, colloquially, and dramatically. My subject is…

— Rosemary Tonks

It's always my mission to try to do something that hasn't been done before, whether that's musically, lyrically or in terms of mixing.

— Rostam Batmanglij

Great music is just very clear. Sonically and lyrically, you understand the point of view, you understand the melodies, you understand the vibe, and…

— Justin Tranter

Hip-hop is the music of the youth. It sort of has the same purpose as what we do, at least lyrically, because we both…

— Amadou Bagayoko

For some music, lyrically, the best move is to keep it simple in what it is that you are saying, and just kind of…

— Black Thought

Lyrically, the most important thing for me is, how can I tell a cohesive story?

— Andy Biersack