#lyric

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 would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#ditch #hard #i #know #labor

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

— Kylie Minogue

#i #interpret #lyrics #them #tune

I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now. ↗

— Kylie Minogue

#better #better now #few #i #intensely

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

#always #creations #die #great #human

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#character #early #i #like #lot

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#between #clear #delight #different #excitement

I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes. ↗

— Neil Peart

#already #five #guy #i #just

For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#admitted #am #confusion #ever #every