#lyric

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

#being #deceived #differing #divisions #each

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#bad #content #feels #good #grown

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. ↗

— Brian Eno

#generated #lyrics #peculiar #processes #random

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention. ↗

— Brian Eno

#attention #beat #engage #exist #lyric

We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#beings #crave #feel #going #great

I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that. ↗

— Jonny Lang

#guys #had #i #i wish #know

To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#kind #lyrics #me #song #style

I'm a peasant I'm the muzhik A pest you're destined to play the music And yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty I'm Indebted to rest respecting it truly ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #beauty #creation #creativity #credit

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#anything #block #else #having #i

I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way. ↗

— Kylie Minogue

#i #interpret #lyrics #them #tune