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Lyric Quotes

I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative? Picture Quote #1

I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what’s going on in my heart and that’s what consumes me; think a lot of our heart is relationships. Not just with boyfriend or girlfriend but all your relationships in your life with other people and our interactions with other humans Picture Quote #1

I don’t really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I’m not operating on somebody’s brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it’s all funny Picture Quote #1

It’s not only about the rap lyric. Today, people are buying you as a person Picture Quote #1

Everything stems from real experiences but I do also have a very vivid imagination. A song lyric gets easily carried away with itself and can end up somewhere I’d never have predicted Picture Quote #1

I was raised in Catholic school where we were given a lot of heavy literature and a dense, weighty lyric wasn’t strange to me. I didn’t need everything to be light and simple for me to see the beauty in it Picture Quote #1

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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 lyric with what I wanted to say Picture Quote #1

He doesn’t make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there’s a lot of production going on. I think that’s the key and that’s the magic, it’s making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they’re on the dance floor Picture Quote #1

After using four different languages on an album, it’s tough to decide which one I’m gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I’m singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible Picture Quote #1

I just love doing radio. I’ve learned to be more vulnerable through radio than even I’ve been through books and writing lyrics. It’s a different type of experience where, if I’m writing a lyric, I can sort of hide behind it a little bit Picture Quote #1

In my bachelor days, I had a small upright piano in my kitchen. It cost ÃƒÂº10 from eBay plus ÃƒÂº70 delivery. It was because I’d seen an old photo of Tom Waits - with dirty dishes, empty bottles, a hot plate, a coffee machine and a piano strewn with lyric sheets - and fallen in love with it Picture Quote #1

I’m not a pop song lyric writer. I can’t just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre Picture Quote #1

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Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type Easter egg Picture Quote #1

Music has its own emotional embodiment. It carries an emotion with it. When you associate a lyric with the music, it’s much easier; but when you’re standing there completely dry in front of the camera with no musical background, just a fine-tuned, get-this-emotional-story across, it’s a very, very intense kind of focus Picture Quote #1

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 a melody that gives you some kind of body response and emotional response Picture Quote #1

The length and shape of the poemetto, like the greater Romantic lyric of English poetry, lends itself to retrospection and commentary Picture Quote #1

Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There’s three people writing now, and we’ve all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words Picture Quote #1

Even if I’m writing music, it’s with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling Picture Quote #1

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Country music isn’t a guitar, it isn’t a banjo, it isn’t a melody, it isn’t a lyric. It’s a feeling Picture Quote #1

Alienation between the content and form happens frequently in my poems because I obstinately carry on dismantling my body, an act you can also call dismantling delusion. I think that after I dismantle my female body, I can finally dismantle established lyric poems Picture Quote #1

The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on ‘Pretty Hate Machine,’ came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form Picture Quote #1

It’s nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector’s item Picture Quote #1

Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened Picture Quote #1

It’s funny how the littlest things can make you feel larger than life; the right lyric, the most heartfelt melody, the clearest message. Love Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we’re always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in Picture Quote #1

A good song is like a mannequin - its form makes sense, but there’s no life. There should be memorable melody, thoughtful lyric, appropriate arrangement Picture Quote #1

You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it’s going to be a tough sell Picture Quote #1

Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because there’s nothing between you and the melody; it’s just a great lyric Picture Quote #1

Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart’s - the spirit of compassion, of universal love, even of suffering - a spirit that knows no age, that belongs to all ages Picture Quote #1

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I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative? (Lyric Quotes) I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what’s going on in my heart and that’s what consumes me; think a lot of our heart is relationships. Not just with boyfriend or girlfriend but all your relationships in your life with other people and our interactions with other humans. (Lyric Quotes) I don’t really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I’m not operating on somebody’s brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it’s all funny. (Lyric Quotes) It’s not only about the rap lyric. Today, people are buying you as a person. (Lyric Quotes) Everything stems from real experiences but I do also have a very vivid imagination. A song lyric gets easily carried away with itself and can end up somewhere I’d never have predicted. (Lyric Quotes) I was raised in Catholic school where we were given a lot of heavy literature and a dense, weighty lyric wasn’t strange to me. I didn’t need everything to be light and simple for me to see the beauty in it. (Lyric Quotes) 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 lyric with what I wanted to say. (Lyric Quotes) He doesn’t make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there’s a lot of production going on. I think that’s the key and that’s the magic, it’s making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they’re on the dance floor. (Lyric Quotes) After using four different languages on an album, it’s tough to decide which one I’m gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I’m singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible. (Lyric Quotes) I just love doing radio. I’ve learned to be more vulnerable through radio than even I’ve been through books and writing lyrics. It’s a different type of experience where, if I’m writing a lyric, I can sort of hide behind it a little bit. (Lyric Quotes) In my bachelor days, I had a small upright piano in my kitchen. It cost ÃƒÂº10 from eBay plus ÃƒÂº70 delivery. It was because I’d seen an old photo of Tom Waits - with dirty dishes, empty bottles, a hot plate, a coffee machine and a piano strewn with lyric sheets - and fallen in love with it. (Lyric Quotes) I’m not a pop song lyric writer. I can’t just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre. (Lyric Quotes) Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type Easter egg. (Lyric Quotes) Music has its own emotional embodiment. It carries an emotion with it. When you associate a lyric with the music, it’s much easier; but when you’re standing there completely dry in front of the camera with no musical background, just a fine-tuned, get-this-emotional-story across, it’s a very, very intense kind of focus. (Lyric Quotes) 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 a melody that gives you some kind of body response and emotional response. (Lyric Quotes) The length and shape of the poemetto, like the greater Romantic lyric of English poetry, lends itself to retrospection and commentary. (Lyric Quotes) Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There’s three people writing now, and we’ve all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words (Lyric Quotes) Even if I’m writing music, it’s with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling (Lyric Quotes) Country music isn’t a guitar, it isn’t a banjo, it isn’t a melody, it isn’t a lyric. It’s a feeling. (Lyric Quotes) Alienation between the content and form happens frequently in my poems because I obstinately carry on dismantling my body, an act you can also call dismantling delusion. I think that after I dismantle my female body, I can finally dismantle established lyric poems. (Lyric Quotes) The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on ‘Pretty Hate Machine,’ came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form. (Lyric Quotes) It’s nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector’s item. (Lyric Quotes) Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened. (Lyric Quotes) It’s funny how the littlest things can make you feel larger than life; the right lyric, the most heartfelt melody, the clearest message. Love. (Lyric Quotes) 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. (Lyric Quotes) I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we’re always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in. (Lyric Quotes) A good song is like a mannequin - its form makes sense, but there’s no life. There should be memorable melody, thoughtful lyric, appropriate arrangement. (Lyric Quotes) You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it’s going to be a tough sell (Lyric Quotes) Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because there’s nothing between you and the melody; it’s just a great lyric. (Lyric Quotes) Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart’s - the spirit of compassion, of universal love, even of suffering - a spirit that knows no age, that belongs to all ages. (Lyric Quotes)

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