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. Jim Capaldi British Musician More Jim Capaldi Quotes 0
I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now? Jim Capaldi British Musician More Jim Capaldi Quotes 0
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 American Poet More Marilyn Hacker Quotes 0
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 Italian Author More Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes 0
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. Salvatore Quasimodo Italian Author More Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes 0
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 American Musician More Jimmy Carl Black Quotes 0
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. Deborah Cox Canadian Musician More Deborah Cox Quotes 0
The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections. Hart Crane American Poet More Hart Crane Quotes 0
The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own. Sheryl Crow American Musician More Sheryl Crow Quotes 0
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. Danielle Dax English Musician More Danielle Dax Quotes 0
I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first. Neil Diamond American Musician More Neil Diamond Quotes 0
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. Norman Douglas British Writer More Norman Douglas Quotes 0
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. John Drinkwater English Poet More John Drinkwater Quotes 0
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 English Poet More John Drinkwater Quotes 0
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 English Musician More Barry Gibb Quotes 0
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! Alma Gluck American Musician More Alma Gluck Quotes 0
In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy. Thomas Harrison English More Thomas Harrison Quotes 0
If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric. Adam Jones American Musician More Adam Jones Quotes 0
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. Seamus Heaney Irish Poet More Seamus Heaney Quotes 0
Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power. Fernand Leger French Artist More Fernand Leger Quotes 0
There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. Gyorgy Ligeti Hungarian Composer More Gyorgy Ligeti Quotes 0
I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction. Barry Mann American Musician More Barry Mann Quotes 0
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 Italian Poet More Eugenio Montale Quotes 0
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 American Musician More Thurston Moore Quotes 0
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. Margaret Whiting American Musician More Margaret Whiting Quotes 0