Lyric Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Lyric

Lyric Quotes & Sayings

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It's like you know a lyric for a song by heart and suddenly you forget the words. — Cecelia Ahern

It all starts from the lyric with me. If I work really hard on the lyric and get it right, then it will tell me whatever else to do, where to go. — Scott Walker

In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will have its way. — Clinton Scollard

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

Soon the Boov was in the ghost suit and Pig was in the car, which would be a good lyric for a bluegrass song, now that I think of it. — Adam Rex

Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice. — Hamish Bowles

I usually start with a lyric and see where that takes me. — Adam Schlesinger

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant. — John Lydon

It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing. — Lou Gramm

Or you can just start speaking up...

-Brave — Sara Bareilles

The way I teach people to sing ... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue. — Margaret Whiting

For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal. — Walther Von Der Vogelweide

I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea. — Charlotte Eriksson

I know that that doesn't make even a little bit of sense. That was the point, that beautiful incongruence. — Hank Green

The country is lyric, the town dramatic. When mingled, they make the most perfect musical drama. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Anything is food for starting a song. A song can start with a lyric idea or a melody or just a sound that inspires. — Alison Goldfrapp

Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form. — Russell Smith

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet? — Bob Dylan

I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too. — Neil Farber

You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell. — Herb Alpert

I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job — Seamus Heaney

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object. — Conor Oberst

All you ever did was...WRECK ME...

-Wrecking Ball — Miley Cyrus

O lyric love! half angel half bird — Robert Browning

Damn Lyric, it isn't torture. It's travel. Get some sleep."
- Sabine — J.W. Ellis

Ultimately the air
Is bare sunlight where must be found
The lyric valuable. — George Oppen

And we dance all night to The Best Song ever!
-One Direction — One Direction

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire. — Robert Browning

I don't wanna be a lover,
I just wanna be your victim. — Elvis Costello

My feet took an involuntary step backward as I suddenly envisioned a world where I wasn't a hot tempered smartass. It was a pretty world. — Jennifer R. McDonald

I'm no good at goodbyes

-50 Ways To Say Goodbye — Train

It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger. — John Fuller

Sometimes I'll be driving and a lyric will come into my head, and I will have to pull over and record it on my phone. — Lil' Kim

I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre. — Julian Casablancas

When you're moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star. — Stevie Wonder

The lyric self is the self; the narrative self is not. — Li-Young Lee

My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that. — Craig Finn

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. — Etgar Keret

I'm lyric conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records. — Betty Wright

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling. — Cass McCombs

I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric. — Trey Anastasio

She's no angel.
He's no saint. — Elvis Costello

UNUSED LYRIC I've never been to Eden But it's nice I hear tell When I die I'll go to heaven 'Cause I've done my time in hell — Nikki Sixx

def leppard lyric from Rock of Ages: It's better to burn out than fade away. This is not a Curt Cobain quote. He was quoting them !!!!! — Victoria Danann

Tricey eventually forgave me for falling in love with Taij, but Lyric never did. Besides, — Jessica N. Watkins

My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric. — Ernesto Cardenal

When Blue sang, a lyric became a libation; a song became a sacrament. — Pearl Cleage

Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand. — Metallica

I was an usher at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. You had to watch whatever play they had on 40 times. — Robert Webb

Time flies when you're falling down ... (not from a book, it's a lyric) — Courtney Love

love is but an echo in her head — David Cantor

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come. — James Taylor

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite. — James Taylor

I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative? — Matthea Harvey

I'm a lyric man - I'm always looking for meaningful songs. — Tom Jones

In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of. — Jimmy Carl Black

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten. — Gabrielle Aplin

I like to get a vibe first, then a melody and really beat up the melody for a while, then try and find a lyric that really suits him/her. — Matt Squire

Literature, especially poetry, and lyric poetry most of all, is a kind of family joke, with little or no value outside its own language-group. — George Orwell

One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric. — John Marshall Harlan II

No use wishing now for any other sin. — Elvis Costello

Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it. — King Krule

So wake me up when its all over

-Wake Me Up — Avicii

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into! — Frank Iero

Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm
stranded in the wrong time
where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme — Bil Keane

It's a breath you took too late.
It's a death that's worse than fate. — Elvis Costello

I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality. — Edward Hirsch

The ethos and critique are of poetry, which becomes a rich dark with a phosphorescence of lyric as witness. — Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home.' — James Blunt

There ain't no money in poetry, that's what keeps the poet free. I've had all the freedom I can stand. — Guy Clark

The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit. — Mason Cooley

Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent, — Milan Kundera

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. — Diane Warren

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. — Gyorgy Ligeti

My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.' — Mitch Leigh

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

Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more. — Stephen Malkmus

My music is basically all about witty punchlines and lyric progression that is aimed to make you laugh or say "Woah." — Mike Stud

Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing. — Adam Schlesinger

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction. — Barry Mann

To share is precious, pure and fair.
Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there? — Marvin Gaye

Even in the midst of my darkness, through a storm of pain, Lyric brings me calm. — Jessica Sorensen

Trouble, Troublemaker yeah that's your middle name

Ooh — Olly Murs

The length and shape of the poemetto, like the greater Romantic lyric of English poetry, lends itself to retrospection and commentary. — Susan Stewart

A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself. — Alfred De Musset

[O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric. — John Marshall Harlan

In the half light of morning, in a world between the sheets
I swear I saw her angel wing, my vision was complete
from TIGHTROPE - Stone Roses — Matt Squire

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

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric. — James Broughton

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible. — Vanessa Paradis

'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun. — Erich Bergen

Dear Diary,
Today I met a boy
He stole my heart...
And won't give it back — Lyric

I try and journal every day, and that's where a lot of my lyric comes from. — Jessie Baylin

If I was an owl, I would peck your eyes out. Wow this lyric is ****ing brilliant. — Thom Yorke

snatch of an old Bob Dylan lyric occurred to him, something about the price you had to pay to keep from going through everything twice. — Stephen King

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do. — Stephen Sondheim

I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric — Frank Zappa

A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me. — Lou Rawls

It's not only about the rap lyric. Today, people are buying you as a person. — Theophilus London

A beautiful woman combining the prospect of happiness and nakedness in the same spoken sentence could achieve the power of the greatest lyric poetry. — Nick Hornby