#lyric

You win some, you learn some. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#music-lyrics #ponder-this #song-lyrics #inspirational

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me. ↗

— Tim Burton

#dr #favorite #growing #growing up #his

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

#complete #did #ever #everything #figure

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

#come #complicated #connect #could #dance

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

#contains #epic #fact #failure #folk

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric. ↗

— Ben Folds

#figure #job #lyric #music #out

Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance. ↗

— Beth Gibbons

#created #distance #feel #like #lyrics

Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife! ↗

— Buddy Guy

#everyday #everyday life #everyone #get #having

I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin. ↗

— Nina Hagen

#berlin #create #drummer #east #great

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down. ↗

— Phil Harris

#days #development #down #experience #gone