“But it's easier to say 'I love you', than 'Yours, sincerely' I suppose.” — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I can't bear a trite lyric: sometimes this can be overlooked, but rarely. — Liza Tarbuck Copy Share Image
“Ultimately the air Is bare sunlight where must be found The lyric valuable.” — George Oppen Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“It's a breath you took too late. It's a death that's worse than fate.” — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
For me, whenever I choose a song to sing, it's about the lyric first. — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
“One good idea could cost you thousands of your days, but it's just time you'd be spending anyways” — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
Within TG, we liberated the use of the lyric forever. There was no longer a taboo on what could be discussed in… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
Anything is food for starting a song. A song can start with a lyric idea or a melody or just a sound… — Alison Goldfrapp Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous. — John Prine Copy Share Image
It helped my lyric writing so much studying poetry. I thought I knew what poetry was before I immersed myself in it.… — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that. — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
“I know that that doesn't make even a little bit of sense. That was the point, that beautiful incongruence.” — Hank Green Copy Share Image
I don't really care about audio quality. If people saw some of the ways that I record stuff, they'd see I don't… — Dev Hynes Copy Share Image
“Lyric poets are always corrupting the young, making them choke in self-pity and indulge in reverie. Dirty sex and direspect for authority… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
You know when you hear a lyric and you can tell that the person means it? That is really hard; that is… — Andy Grammer Copy Share Image
For me, music always leads. Lyrics are only about how they sing. It is wonderful if they read well, too. In the… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
My daughter, who is 7 years old - I have no idea where she learned this - she made a video where… — Al Madrigal Copy Share Image
I tend to write poetry that is rich in data of various sorts. The lyric poem isn't perfectly suited to accommodating such… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
I'm not so in with the prescriptive avant-garde agenda. I can do that sort of thing, but I feel that I'm still… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
In a song, you have to have a lyric that gives us new ideas on how to live, a lyric that makes… — Jennifer Warnes Copy Share Image
I think that the casual reader and the lyric and confession are trickily tied up together. I mean often when I read… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
“Can you keep a secret? Sometimes I look at you and all I see is regret My little passion pit is out… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine… — J Tillman Copy Share Image
I always try to write about something that's actually happened or it doesn't always have to have happened to me, but it… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
Alone at last we can sin and fight. And I've lost all faith in this blurring light, (Stay right here we can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But you can't hide from me, Lyric. I'm learning you. I want to learn more.” — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
When Curtis Mayfield made 'Super Fly,' he used the lyric to make a statement. — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
I really don't have a method. I gravitate towards the organic/acoustic, but I still often complete songs musically before attempting to find… — Lou Barlow Copy Share Image
I ain't sayin she's a gold digger, but she ain't messing with no broke white guy who's afraid to finish the rest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's one of the reasons I got into country music: because of the craft of that lyric and how much you could… — Walker Hayes Copy Share Image
“My heart shattered and I kissed her, hard, as I fell irrevocably in love with Lyric.” — Ann Mayburn Copy Share Image
I have a card catalogue in my brain of every lyric of every sappy love song ever written. — Delilah Copy Share Image
It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger. — John Fuller Copy Share Image
“Show them what you’re made of Your endless nights deserve a loud ovation Shine bright and prove them wrong ‘Cause we can… — Stray Kids Copy Share Image
![“You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses. I think for me it's about what you leave out [rather] than what you put in. I'm…” quote by J Tillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b33/j-tillman-40960_distillation_you-know-there-s-an-economy-in-lyric-wri_2068675.jpg)
![“Alone at last we can sin and fight. And I've lost all faith in this blurring light, (Stay right here we can change our plight. Storming through this despite what's right.) One final fight for this tonight. Whoa-oh-oh With knives and pens we made our plight. [The lyric video's additional line:]…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/396/anonymous-1_faith_alone-at-last-we-can-sin-and-fight-and-i_1342945.jpg)
