Lyric Quotes

Big black nigga

— Rick Ross

“You're mine, Lyric.”

— Maya Banks

Singing na-na-na when I can'tremember a part of song lyric

— Anonymous

“I'm not a wannabe. I'm who I wannabe.”

— Hawk Nelson

I always take notes on my phone of lyric ideas.

— Benee

“So for now wave good-bye leave your hands held high”

— Gabriel Garcia Márquez

I'm a lyric man - I'm always looking for meaningful songs.

— Tom Jones

“She's no angel. He's no saint.”

— Elvis Costello

I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy!

— James Brown

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.

— John Lydon

I have a card catalogue in my brain of every lyric of every sappy love song ever written.

— Delilah

“My heart shattered and I kissed her, hard, as I fell irrevocably in love with Lyric.”

— Ann Mayburn

I don't really usually write sort of a cheerleader-type lyric.

— Rachael Yamagata

“I know that that doesn't make even a little bit of sense. That was the point, that beautiful incongruence.”

— Hank Green

My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.

— Craig Finn

“Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”

— Paul Brandt

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

— Samuel Barber

[Kino] worked really well as a song title, and to build into a lyric, and also how we embraced mulit-media at the…

— Stephen Mallinder

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

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

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

Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the…

— Burning Spear

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out…

— Carole King

I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is…

— Alison Krauss

“When we feel, a kind of lyric is sung in our heart. When we think, a kind of music is played in…

— Toba Beta

landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks…

— Patricia Hampl

I have a tape recorder, and I just sing into it. I like to write that way. Sometimes I'll just get melodic…

— Melora Hardin

My daughter, who is 7 years old - I have no idea where she learned this - she made a video where…

— Al Madrigal

I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that's what consumes…

— Amy Lee

I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying…

— Paul Simon

For me, music always leads. Lyrics are only about how they sing. It is wonderful if they read well, too. In the…

— Chris Thile

You know when you hear a lyric and you can tell that the person means it? That is really hard; that is…

— Andy Grammer

“Because the song is us and the song is her and this time I’m going to use her name. Norah, Norah, Norah…

— David Levithan

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

“I don't wanna be a lover, I just wanna be your victim.”

— Elvis Costello

“[O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric.”

— John Marshall Harlan

“O lyric love! half angel half bird”

— Robert Browning

In our hands, even the straightest lyric sounded shady.

— Angus Young

“You're beautiful just as you are, Lyric.”

— Maya Banks

“love is but an echo in her head”

— David Cantor