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Quotes About Lyrical

We've been branded 'the thinking man's hip-hop.' So the music's got to have some level of maturity.
~ Black Thought
It is vital for me to make progress as a lyrical singer since it also helps me to sing rock better.
~ Tarja Turunen
Under-sung vocals can be very sexy because of the intimacy, but they can be just as heartbreaking for the same reason.
~ Justin Tranter
As I am a lyrical singer, I really have to work hard. I'm still really training on a daily basis on my vocals. Because of the lyrical training, it never really ends.
~ Tarja Turunen
I'm not so much into the beats. I'm more into the spiritual side of the music.
~ Ziggy Marley
Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard trying to distinguish between the author's persona and the poem's lyrical hero. As a rule, such distinctions are quite meaningless, if only because a lyrical hero is invariably an author's self-projection.
~ Joseph Brodsky
I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
~ R. Kelly
I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.
~ Carlos Santana
I listen to a lot of Biggie, he's so lyrical.
~ Megan Thee Stallion
The place we go as a band is a sort of samadhi, intensely emotional and not bound by self-thinking. And lyrically, one of the goals is to suggest that something is going on beyond what you can see.
~ Ed Kowalczyk
I got recognised for my work in 'Guru' as 'Tere Bina' became extremely popular, but very few people know that I have sung major lyrical portions of the song 'Maiyya' as well.
~ Chinmayi
Which of us, in his ambitious moments, has not dreamed of the miracle of a poetic prose--musical, but without (conventional) rhythm and rhyme, and supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical impulses of the soul.
~ WALTER BARGEN
Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or a routine change of place, for an everyday event with a lyrical value that I did not sense at the time, to become suddenly adorned with a radiant echo, the echo ordinarily reserved only for those memories which have been standing for many years in the powerful fixative of lyrical oblivion.
~ Danilo Kiš
During that year by the railroad embankment, at the time of my father's complete disaster, distance meant for us not only some faraway lyrical splendor but also the exceedingly utilitarian idea of running away, the deliverance from fear and hunger.
~ Danilo Kiš
I think 'Shade Room,' it's a different me. You know, I think it's more on the lyrical side, talking about my life and how I really feel. You know, all these things outside of football. And people really get to look at how I feel about things or how I look at certain things. It's not just a song, more so me just telling people how I feel.
~ Le'Veon Bell
I can make rhymes. My style of writing is kind of childlike anyway.
~ Tim Minchin
& I'm all up all up all up in the bank with the funny face
~ Nicki Minaj
I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
~ Camila Cabello
I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. Im looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.
~ Talib Kweli
The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.
~ Claude Debussy
And evermore the waters worship God;-- And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the waves!
~ Sarah Josepha Hale
When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds to music that is honest and lyrical and tells stories.
~ Patti Scialfa
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
~ George Santayana
Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.
~ Masiela Lusha