Lyric Quotes

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul. (Eugenio Montale)
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. View quote
Deborah Cox
I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise. View quote
Leo Kottke
O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire. View quote
Robert Browning
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose. View quote
Boris Pasternak
For five hundred years after Walther's death – until Goethe – no German lyric poet was his equal. View quote
Walther von der Vogelweide
Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric. View quote
Victor Hugo
I don't spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyric or this or that. I just want to be happy with it myself - and if other people like it, that's great. View quote
Ben Gibbard
The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
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. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
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)
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. View quote
Barry Gibb
I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist. View quote
David Levithan
I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction. View quote
Barry Mann
Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling. View quote
Cass McCombs
What makes a great song - you don't put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something. View quote
Diane Warren
I want to suggest a feeling. It's ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics. View quote
Danielle Dax
A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. View quote
John Drinkwater
A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me. View quote
Lou Rawls
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. View quote
Marilyn Hacker
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. (Thurston Moore)
As the writer of the lyric of the song 'God's Country,' I am outraged by the suggestion that somehow I am connected with, believe in, or am sympathetic with Communist or totalitarian philosophy. View quote
Yip Harburg
This short book, where joy and sadness are twins, like the ears of Platero, was written for ... I have no idea for whom! ... For whomever lyric poets write ... View quote
Juan Ramón Jiménez
I began ... to watch with peculiar alarm lest what I called my philosophic estimate of the human lot in general, should be a mere prose lyric expressing my own pain and consequent bad temper. View quote
George Eliot
From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay attention to the west wind. Pay attention to the boy on the raft, the lady in the tower, the old man on the train. In sum, pay attention to the world and all that dwells therein and thereby learn at last to pay attention to yourself and all that dwells therein. View quote
Frederick Buechner