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
“My feet took an involuntary step backward as I suddenly envisioned a world where I wasn't a hot tempered smartass. It was… — Jennifer R. McDonald Copy Share Image
I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is… — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
“After all, what is lyric but the seamless fusion of formal control and passionate conviction, in the service of the expression of… — Annie Finch Copy Share Image
I was an usher at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. You had to watch whatever play they had on 40 times. — Robert Webb 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'm achingly aware of my own limitations as both part of the human race and as an individual. I'm just, casting this… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to the sounds I'm working with. Every song… — Gotye Copy Share Image
The road, lyric-wise, is a trap, and a bore. Maybe it's interesting to me, but I don't think it's a connecting thing… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
The popular songs that were written in the 1920s and '30s, '40s and early '50s were written by veterans - mostly men… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
I'm a real stickler for a great lyric, or what I think is a great lyric. It's almost impossible for me to… — Sara Evans Copy Share Image
[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge… — Sjon Copy Share Image
The name Dirtee Stank came from a lyric I had when I was 17 or 16. Lyrical tank, like my name was… — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing. — Lou Gramm Copy Share Image
It all starts from the lyric with me. If I work really hard on the lyric and get it right, then it… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction. — Barry Mann Copy Share Image
Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it,… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake. — Isaac Hanson Copy Share Image
My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
You only have 24 hours or 1400 minutes before your dream's gone you better go live it. — Machine Gun Kelly Copy Share Image
Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
What makes a great song - you don't put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It… — Diane Warren Copy Share Image
“our love like stepping on to a plane sitting down in a car walking on unknown land will either take us to… — scott mcgoldrick Copy Share Image
Writer babe you could be the quote. If I'm the lyric baby you could be the note. Record that! — Miguel Jontel Copy Share Image
This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
I'm in love with the way that Ella Fitzgerald delivered a lyric. She would deliver a lyric with the kind of clarity… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
When you do a lyric for 'April in Paris,' those who have heard it before can hear it in a different way… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
It's very rare - and it does happen on occasion - where I'll take a piece of lyric and I'll just sit… — Geddy Lee Copy Share Image
Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest… — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
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