Best Lyric Sayings

146 Lyric quotes by 126 unique authors

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired… — Boris Pasternak
Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent, — Milan Kundera
I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of… — Leo Kottke
But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help… — Evelyn Waugh
Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate,… — Bob Dylan
The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative… — Sylvia Plath
There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of… — Nikolai Gogol
I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I'm going to play, I just sit down and have my books with… — Amy Ray
I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes… — Amy Ray
A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me. — Lou Rawls
The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor… — Margaret Whiting
That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I… — Margaret Whiting
You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric. — Barry Manilow
I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction. — Barry Mann
I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll… — Neil Diamond
Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric… — Irving Howe
Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home. — James Blunt
I want to suggest a feeling. It's ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the… — Danielle Dax
One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from… — Hal David
There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but… — Tim Finn
I'm a lyric man - I'm always looking for meaningful songs. — Tom Jones
When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It… — Etgar Keret
Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody.… — Carole King
I feel like fans who like old Southern rock and country, and more lyric-driven songs in general, have come to country radio. I think that's… — Charles Kelley
These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust. What's it for,… — Patricia Hampl

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