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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over… — Victoria Clark
I think, then, there's the sort of, like, political dimension to lyrics. One of the problems that I've had with my output as a lyric… — J. Robbins
The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man. — Benjamin Disraeli
I wanted to take my writing to another level. I wanted to write stuff that was personal for real. It's one thing to write a… — Tove Styrke
I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night… — Barry Gibb
I don't really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I'm not operating on… — Harry Connick, Jr.
I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what… — Chris Cornell
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner… — Norman Douglas
The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your… — Brian Eno
Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to… — James Fenton
When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and… — James Fenton
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. — Seamus Heaney
I grew up the biggest fan of the Cure. Knew every lyric, had every album, B-side, single, poster, everything. Then cut to fifteen years later,… — Mark Hoppus
The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English… — Jon Landau
I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that's what consumes me; think a… — Amy Lee
Every single lyric I've ever written I meant. — John Lydon
Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying… — Malcolm Mclaren
This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human… — Eugenio Montale
Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object. — Conor Oberst
Gangnam is a territory in Seoul, Korea. I describe it as noble at the daytime and going crazy at the night time. I compare ladies… — PSY
I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible. — Vanessa Paradis
I was once making a burger for myself at my boyfriend's house and a lyric started pouring out and I had to catch it, so… — Jill Scott
I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it. — Stephen Sondheim
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it. — Stephen Sondheim
When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm… — Taylor Swift

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