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I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page… — James Taylor
Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren't moving… — will.i.am
Don't criticize what you can't understand. — Bob Dylan
Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both… — Victor Hugo
I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job — Seamus Heaney
Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme — Bil Keane
I touched my lips to hers again, and this time, it was a very different sort of kiss. It was six years’ worth of kissing,… — Maggie Stiefvater
I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single… — David Levithan
Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do. — Stephen Sondheim
..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the lyric: "I've been afraid of changing, because I've built… — Mindy Kaling
In a song, you have to have a lyric that gives us new ideas on how to live, a lyric that makes us feel, and… — Jennifer Warnes
It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a… — Lorde
A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I write a… — Pete Townshend
Anything is food for starting a song. A song can start with a lyric idea or a melody or just a sound that inspires. — Alison Goldfrapp
Lyric helps invoke the core person. And, without lyric, it is difficult to touch the core. Lyrical music is the music of India. — Dayananda Saraswati
Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice. — Hamish Bowles
Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form. — Russell Smith
I was the lead singer in a lot of the bands I was in. You have to be comfortable. You gotta get up there and… — Richie Sambora
I was an usher at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. You had to watch whatever play they had on 40 times. — Robert Webb
Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the people, understand? — Burning Spear
I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea… — Jim Capaldi
There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. — Gyorgy Ligeti
In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who… — Dinah Shore
It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing. — Lou Gramm
I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric. — Trey Anastasio

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