Lyric Quotes

• 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
  • Music
  • Lyric

• Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

  

  Carole King
  • May
  • Brain
  • Sometimes

• Ban at the 2008 Global Leadership Awards Gala, held October 1, 2008 by the United Nations Association of the United States of America. It's a 'lyric acknowledgment'—inspired by honoree Jay-Z—of the award winners, sung by Ban as a rap.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • America
  • Leadership
  • Rap

• And I think that's a singer's job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There's an art to it, and I think some people are really great at it, like Tammy Wynette and George Jones and Tony Bennett.

  

  Tammy Wynette
  • People
  • Great
  • Art

• I usually start with a lyric and see where that takes me.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • Lyric

• Very seldom do I write words and have somebody put the music to them. If I'm writing lyric and music at the same time, I usually finish the music rather quickly.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Good
  • Song
  • Lyric

• We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Time
  • Work
  • Same

• 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 I'll just record it there and then.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Night
  • Sound
  • Record

• I'm always creating. Whether I'm writing a lyric or making a beat, every day I'm doing something.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Writing
  • Lyric

• 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 to the territory. So - noble at the daytime, going crazy at the night time - and the lyric says I am the right guy for the lady who is like that.

  

  Psy
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Night

• A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Work
  • Song
  • Listening

• The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss.

  

  Bart Chilton
  • Country
  • Song
  • Road

• 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
  • People
  • Music
  • Lyric

• It's very rare - and it does happen on occasion - where I'll take a piece of lyric and I'll just sit down and purposefully craft that melody around that lyric because I think the lyric is the wellspring for the song, without question.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
  • Song
  • Question
  • Lyric

• well well boss there issomething to be saidfor the lyric and imperialattitudebelieve that everything is foryou until you discover that you are for itsing your faith in what youget to eat right up to theminute you are eatenfor you are going to be eaten

  

  Don Marquis
  • Up
  • Faith
  • Boss

• I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike 'Aida,' parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Long
  • Live
  • City

• Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Man
  • Religious
  • Poetry

• He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • World
  • Man
  • Poetry

• As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't found any homegrown talent.

  

  Ian Beattie
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Sad

• ‘Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time-’That’s the sort of thing she would have written before the rise of advertising. The correlation is perfectly clear. Advertising up, lyric poetry down.

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• I hand him a lyric and get out of his way.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Hand
  • Lyric

• Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Power
  • Never
  • Personality

• If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Play
  • Sound
  • Anything

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