Believe Quote by Matthea Harvey

It's different obviously with a song when you're talking about narrative, you're talking about the verse leading into the chorus or whatever it is,…

— Shura

I am committed now to one thing: lyric sequences. I want the intensity of lyric, but the scope and arc of narrative. so, I…

— Gregory Orr

The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.

— Leonard Michaels

I've never invested myself properly in trying to write stories. When I write lyrics, mostly I write each sentence separately on an index card…

— Jason Schwartzman

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those…

— Marilyn Hacker

Sustaining a narrative in sentences and paragraphs is very different from songwriting. But the dedication to the craft and just the endurance that it…

— Rodney Crowell

Because I love narrative but am more lyrically inclined, I've learned that if I freight titles with narrative information (the who, what, when, where,…

— Anna Journey

Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches,…

— Ian Anderson

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not…

— Glenn Danzig

Once a poet always a poet, and even though I haven't written poems for a long time, I can nonetheless say that everything I've…

— Jack Driscoll

I tend to employ braided narrative threads in the lyric, so often echoes (of phrases or images) will occur and will hit my ear…

— Anna Journey

So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.

— Billy Sherwood