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Quotes About Lyrical

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.
~ James Stephens
I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.
~ Daya
I'm the Most Lyrically Flamboyant Artist of All Time.
~ Riff Raff
I've always been fond of acoustic music.
~ Ian Anderson
'Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie.'
~ John Lahr
To intoxicate the masses until they were heady with the wine of inspiration was all I lived for. To me, this was elixir... I wax lyrical. I literally am overcome, and this is transmitted to my listeners.
~ Sukarno
Her dress is the colour of marmalade, she chirps songs that have no words
~ Sarah Kay
My genre is the pop ballad with a touch of R&B.
~ Luis Fonsi
What I also love about Lorrie Moore stories is they take me a long time to read. They're not easy for me because each sentence, I feel like, is so rich and dense, it just sends me off in a thousand directions.
~ Raphael Bob-Waksberg
When's the last time you heard a funky diabetic?
~ Phife Dawg
I feel that Nagai Kafu was a writer who cold stitch together apparently meaningless moments like these into a lyrical whole, and has enhanced my ability to do the same with my own life.
~ Quentin S. Crisp
With civilization too comes another change: men wish not only to tell what they have seen, but also to express what they are conscious of. Barbarians feel only hunger, and that is not lyrical; but as time runs on, arise gentler emotions and finer moods and more delicate desires which need expression, and require from the artist's fancy the lightest touches and the most soothing and insinuating words.
~ bagehot walter ix
I hope people describe my music as lyrically driven, cross genre. Kind of alternative, kind of indie, kind of rap, kind of everything.
~ K. Flay
Gangsta rap was the most important movement since the beginning of rock n' roll.
~ Jerry Heller
The artists with lyrical content and who say something seem to outlast the fad rappers - I always noticed that.
~ Cordae
I like lyrical rappers and turn up rappers.
~ Rich Brian
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
First of all, most poems aren't memorable; in fact, they make no impression at all. Sorry, but it's true. There are brave blurbs on the back cover ("writes with a lyrical luminosity that reconceptualizes experience with cognitive beauty") but you open up the goods and they're like condoms on the beach, evidence that somebody was here once and had an experience but not of great interest to the passerby.
~ Garrison Keillor
Sometimes you can publish a first novel in a kind of lyrical flourish, but it is not really a lyrical form. The beautiful truths about the world are more hard won than that. Novels should be bleach boned. It's a question of cumulative observation and lived suffering. It takes time.
~ Lawrence Osborne
Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.
~ Tom Waits
You know, Slick Rick was tight at telling stories.
~ Goldlink
nyt jumalainen lyyrani soi
~ Sapfo
honey voice ... soft voice ...
~ Sappho
When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time.
~ Kiri Te Kanawa