Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading. — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff.… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole… — John Legend Copy Share Image
What I like to do is treat words as a craftsman does his wood or stone or what-have-you, to hew, carve, mold,… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
“Here I stand on the brink of war again, a citizen of no place, no time, no country but my own .… — Diana Gabaldon 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
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
Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose… — Paul Bailey Copy Share Image
THE STORIES WE TELL fearlessly explores the textures of the human heart, finding a path toward hope through a Savannah that is… — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
Climate helps to shape the character of peoples, certainly no people more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped… — H. E. Bates 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
You feel like you want something, but you don't actually know what that is. I remember waking up the other night and… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
I never try and force-feed any song idea or lyrical message. It's really what's on my mind and what comes out of… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
When I first started rapping, when I switched my style to more like a punch line style - this is when I'm… — J. Cole 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
Cheryl Strayed reminds us, in her lyrical and courageous memoir Wild, of what it means to be fully alive, even in the… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
All my songs instinctively erupted from my guitar and lyrical visions followed the spirit of the music, bot image wise and rhythmical… — Ted Nugent 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
Are you tired of lyrical liars, passing fliers, Wannabe MC's, but really good triers, Tripping over mic cords, getting you bored, A… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
I'm selling my soul to Hollywood Records. I love you like a love song baby, a sinful, miracle, lyrical. He ate my… — Selena Gomez 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
If I play the melody, even if I play it in an abstract manner, it's instantly recognizable. Even when I was studying… — Stefon Harris Copy Share Image
There is a set of emotions around money and new technology and advertising and that sort of thing, and there is this… — Alissa Quart 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
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
I chose the songs for the music more than for the lyrical content and it wasn't until the end of the recording… — Vashti Bunyan Copy Share Image
I'm someone who is pretty modest and doesn't like to talk about my love stories. Songs bring a lyrical quality to it,… — Christophe Honore Copy Share Image
I was in a hardcore band that had no melody, no chance of finding any success, and I was just trying to… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas. Eventually, that… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
Lil Wayne, I ain't mad at him man, he did his thing, he stepped up his lyrical game, he the most improved… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
I think the album 'Nothing Personal' is a lot more grittier and a lot more honest from a lyrical standpoint. Also, musically… — Jack Barakat Copy Share Image
“Ahhhh... I see. I think. Perhaps I don't. It may be easier to grasp if you presented it in a musical format.… — Nicole Sager Copy Share Image
I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. Im looking to elevate… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Carol Guess's poems are sexy, intuitive, angry, and hopeful. These lyrical narratives measure the impossibly small distance between love and fear. They… — Zachary Schomburg Copy Share Image
Why don't you conceive of God as an ally who is coming, who has been approaching since time began, the one who… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Once a poet always a poet, and even though I haven't written poems for a long time, I can nonetheless say that… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an… — Patti Scialfa Copy Share Image
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