Lyric Quotes - page 3

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into! (Frank Iero)
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. View quote
Seamus Heaney
(Commenting on band The Killers' lyrics from the song 'All These Things I've Done') Deep down, it really is just a meaningless lyric, isn't it? [Sings] "I got soul, but I'm not a soldier". I mean, you may as well be saying "I got ham, but I'm not a hamster" View quote
Bill Bailey
One man's vulgarity is another's lyric. View quote
John Marshall Harlan II
Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal. View quote
Malcolm Mclaren
I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible. View quote
Vanessa Paradis
When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect. View quote
Etgar Keret
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. View quote
Carole King
I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre. View quote
Julian Casablancas
The popular songs that were written in the 1920s and '30s, '40s and early '50s were written by veterans - mostly men who'd had experience in life. How can you write a lyric if you haven't really lived life? View quote
Rudy Vallee
Tuslidas's attitude toward life and literature was distinctly more objective. Quite naturally, therefore, he has used the objective forms–the epic and the narrative- besides of course, the lyric as vehicles of his devotional poetry. (Tulsidas)
I grew up the biggest fan of the Cure. Knew every lyric, had every album, B-side, single, poster, everything. Then cut to fifteen years later, and we're working on songs together. Ridiculous. View quote
Mark Hoppus
When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are! View quote
Alma Gluck
I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I'm going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It's a kind of discipline. View quote
Amy Ray
I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written. View quote
Amy Ray
If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric. View quote
Adam Jones
You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric. View quote
Barry Manilow
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. View quote
Debbie Harry
I was once making a burger for myself at my boyfriend's house and a lyric started pouring out and I had to catch it, so I ran to another room to write it down, but then the kitchen caught fire. His cabinets were charred, and he was furious. But it was worth it for a song. View quote
Jill Scott
Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically. View quote
Jim Capaldi
There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so. (John Drinkwater)
It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger. View quote
John Fuller
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric. View quote
James Broughton
It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing. View quote
Lou Gramm
That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song. View quote
Margaret Whiting