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He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I… — Deborah Cox
Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed of most creative… — Pat Pattison
After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric,… — Josh Groban
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into! — Frank Iero
UNUSED LYRIC I’ve never been to Eden But it’s nice I hear tell When I die I’ll go to heaven ’Cause I’ve done my time… — Nikki Sixx
Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle… — Fernand Leger
To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual… — Al Jarreau
When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How… — Alma Gluck
Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of… — Carol Muske-Dukes
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments… — Marilyn Hacker
There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge… — John Drinkwater
Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then… — Jim Capaldi
Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects,… — Sara Teasdale
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally.… — Salvatore Quasimodo
In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the… — Forrest Gander
Paul Otremba’s remarkable first book, The Currency, is an intriguing foray into lyric epistemology that tries to come to ter ms with the implacable, paradox-ridden nature of knowledge and… — Michael Collier
The poems in Helena Mesa’s virtuosic first book, Horse Dance Underwater, run with such speed, verve, and alacrity they leave you breathless, exhilarated, and transformed… — Michael Collier
From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay… — Frederick Buechner
In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will have… — Clinton Scollard
I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because… — Leonard Cohen
Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is… — Salvatore Quasimodo
He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed. — Samuel Barber
Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and in some indescribable… — Arthur Miller
Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling. — Waylon Jennings
As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try… — Richie Sambora

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