Lyrical Quotes

107 quotes by 94 authors

Cheryl Strayed reminds us, in her lyrical and courageous memoir Wild, of what it means to be fully alive, even in the face of catastrophe,… — Mira Bartok
Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose is chaste and… — Paul Bailey
This novel has it all--mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and--most important--characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with these families. Solti writes with such… — Jonis Agee
It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each… — Criss Jami
Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way. — Evelyn Glennie
I was literally told for 'The Show Goes On' that I shouldn't rap too deep. I shouldn't be too lyrical. It just needs to be… — Lupe Fiasco
I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I… — R. Kelly
I really appreciate Frank Ocean's lyrical style, I appreciate the way that he can kind of draw you into this personal space, but it's still… — Alicia Keys
I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background.… — Carlos Santana
I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I… — Zadie Smith
'Elect the Dead' is a rock record that takes you on a journey with different types of genres integrated, different lyrical themes digested, and many… — Serj Tankian
That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting… — Ville Valo
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret. — Michel Foucault
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental… — Charles Baudelaire
But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of… — Milan Kundera
She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with sisterly… — Gustave Flaubert
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. — George Santayana
Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard… — Joseph Brodsky
I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably… — Soren Kierkegaard
Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme, supple and staccato… — Charles Baudelaire

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