#lyric

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

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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

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It's weird to try to write lyrics for somebody else. They can't really get behind what you're saying or what you want them to say because they didn't experience it. ↗

— Wes Borland

#behind #else #experience #get #lyrics

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

— James Broughton

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After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together. ↗

— Jim Capaldi

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After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible. ↗

— Josh Groban

#after #album #always #decide #different

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write. ↗

— Tom Araya

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And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#happy #i #i think #long #lyrics

Once we start hitting lyrical themes that can whack you from all these different perspectives, we know we're onto something special. ↗

— Chester Bennington

#different perspectives #hitting #know #lyrical #once

All I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape. ↗

— Blind Melon

#music-lyrics #life