Quotes of: Lyrical Keyword

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

Ronnie James Dio

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

Knut Hamsun

I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed in their personal relations.

Stephen Lang

Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.

Ahmet Ertegun

Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.

Hunter Hayes

When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time.

Kiri Te Kanawa

I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.

Marc Almond

Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.

Mika

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.

Midge Ure

There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have humorous lyrics. Certainly with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and, if you look at country, Roger Miller and Jim Stafford.

Rick Moranis

There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly.

Tim Finn

I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing 'Smog.'

Bill Callahan

The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.

Utada Hikaru

I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.

Collected Sketches and Lyrics

I've definitely got a lot more cautious about my lyrics - I feel I want to be a positive force in the world, and I want to uplift people. That's something that comes with age.

Brandon Flowers

Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.

Randy Bachman

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.

Marilyn Hacker

We are stardust Billion-year old carbon And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden

Joni Mitchell: The Complete Poems and Lyrics

There was a marvelous, dark lyricism in his voice, the kind of defiance that is rooted in deep loneliness.

Skinny Legs and All

The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said, When Allah loves a people, He tries them.

Lyrics Alley

A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

Lyrical and Critical Essays