Lyrical Quotes

• For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Speak
  • Emotion
  • Pity

• I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody.

  

  Emmy Rossum
  • Inspiration
  • Classical
  • New Age

• You can be a permanent fixture in my lyrical mixture.

  

  Eminem
  • Permanent
  • Mixture
  • Fixture

• I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now.

  

  Glenn Hughes Brazen Abbot
  • Thinking
  • Sober
  • Exploring

• The truth is, the way you write music, it's a code. It has to be very precise. It's scientific, but ultimately it also depends on interpretation. It's very similar to how you grow a master plan: it's an objective document, but at the same time it is a lyrical document which allows through interpretation to become a harmonious work of art.

  

  Daniel Libeskind
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• If I play the melody, even if I play it in an abstract manner, it's instantly recognizable. Even when I was studying to be a classical percussionist, I think I was a more lyrical percussionist; melody is the heart and soul of the music.

  

  Stefon Harris
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Study

• The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

  

  Herb Alpert
  • Singing
  • Instruments
  • Trumpets

• Yo, I'm god incarnate. From the grimiest back blocks. Pazienza lyrical equivalent of Sasquatch

  

  Vincenzo Luvineri Army of the Pharaohs
  • Block
  • Lyrical
  • Sasquatch

• What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering.

  

  Denis de Rougemont
  • Passion
  • Satisfaction
  • Contentment

• I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with me that I would distinguish among the shoes in a perfectly normal fashion, but form him it was a revelation. There's a very lyrical passage in Holy Fire about old wealthy European men and their shoes, and how beautiful their shoes are, and how there have never been shoes as beautiful. I think that that was probably as close as Bruce will ever get to homage in my direction. I made him aware of footwear fashion.

  

  William Gibson
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful

• How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch

  

  Karsten Harries
  • Easy
  • Despair
  • Kitsch

• A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.

  

  Thurston Moore Sonic Youth
  • Ideas
  • Meaning
  • Abstracted

• I've always tried to be kind of poetic in my lyrical approach.

  

  Erik Rutan
  • Approach
  • Poetic
  • Lyrical

• It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.

  

  August Bournonville
  • Art
  • Respect
  • Plastic

• I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.

  

  Sean William Scott
  • Feels
  • Liberty
  • Expression

• Prose will be used for the more objective branches of writing- novels, plays, essays..Cadence will be used for personal, emotional, lyrical utterances in which the phrasing goes with a stronger beat and the words live together with an intense flame.

  

  F.S. Flint
  • Emotional
  • Prose
  • Cadence

• The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a particular meaning. Then it's the job of the musician to honor that meaning and to somehow implement lyrical material that can accommodate that emotional environment.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Music
  • Environment
  • Emotional

• Food was always a focus for us, lyrically.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Food
  • Focus
  • Lyrical

• As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite know why it's happening, I want to know I can do the work of pulling it apart and that there'll be something satisfactory about it. If the architecture is sound, you can be lyrical in execution.

  

  Shane Carruth
  • Way
  • Sound
  • Architecture

• What I'm trying to do is make the camera-work lyrical rather than fragmentary. It's a dance between the camera and the actors.

  

  Christopher Doyle
  • Trying
  • Dance
  • Actors

• Generally, if you could picture a bunch of rock and roll momentum behind a song and it was particularly melodious, maybe the Pornographers would do it. If it was kind of moody and more lyrical, then maybe it would be a Destroyer song. Anything that's really lyrically driven I would keep for Destroyer.

  

  Dan Bejar
  • Song
  • Kind
  • Behinds