“Music soothes the mind just as painkillers would soothe a sprain.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life. — James Stephens Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Once we start hitting lyrical themes that can whack you from all these different perspectives, we know we're onto something special. — Chester Bennington Copy Share Image
I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination. — Billy Sherwood Copy Share Image
Reaching deep into the heart of the reader, Cindy Woodsmall pens a beautifully lyrical story in her debut novel When the Heart… — Tamera Alexander Copy Share Image
The Preface to Lyrical Ballads is the subject of the inspiration, not of the per-spiration. — RMKATTA Copy Share Image
“Jax Cassidy is delightful! Her lush, lyrical way with words will draw you in and keep you turning the pages.” — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Anytime there is any lyrical meaning or combination in my mixes, it's very blatant. I'm not trying to make any statement or… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
'Elect the Dead' is a rock record that takes you on a journey with different types of genres integrated, different lyrical themes… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The Sochi Games is not only my second Olympics, but the 'retirement stage' for me, so I want to have a greater… — Yuna Kim Copy Share Image
The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish,… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
I was literally told for 'The Show Goes On' that I shouldn't rap too deep. I shouldn't be too lyrical. It just… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I don't believe, in the end, that there is any such thing as no style. Even a very neutral, plain style, one… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one… — Danilo Kis Copy Share Image
Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are… — Eleanor Lerman Copy Share Image
If you ever get to a wall, you just got to break that wall down and keep going, and I feel like… — Shane Bunting Copy Share Image
Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking… — Skip Horack Copy Share Image
“Her mind raced through the dark, throwing open doors, knocking over cabinets, searching for anything it ever remembered seeing. Then the lightning… — Carey Wallace Copy Share Image
“The full moon, well risen in a cloudless eastern sky, covered the high solitude with its light. We are not conscious of… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
There's a heavy hip-hop influence in my music, some trap influence, but it's always lyrical. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
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