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Quotes About Lyrical

My music is basically perceived as folk or softer rock.
~ Shawn Colvin
My favorite solos are all very melodic. Those are the ones that are the most memorable.
~ Orianthi
Love tone, rhythm, lyrical or melodic structure from heart to love! is the interlude of true love.
~ Auliq Ice
You can keep nothing safe from our eyes and ears. This is your own history. We are your most perilous and dutiful brethren, the song of our hearts at once furious and sad. For only you could grant me these lyrical modes. I call them back to you. Here is the sole talent I ever dared nurture. Here is all of my American education.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
I write in a very melodic way, so that will never leave. I think my records will always tend to be approachable.
~ Tom DeLonge
The music I write is very melodic, very catchy, and fast.
~ Tyler Posey
I really like melodies.
~ Kygo
I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I'm proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer.
~ Emeli Sande
I'm a hip-hop dancer, but when I'm in my room it turns into this lyrical nonsense, and I listen to Phil Wickham and India Arie, who has the most precious songs.
~ Alyson Stoner
Michael Berkeley's 'Sonata' is very - what can you say - melodious.
~ Julian Bream
Not many people know, but Pahari songs are amazing.
~ Mohit Chauhan
I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Drake is a lyrical genius, and he's great with melodies, and Pharrell is an amazing producer and songwriter.
~ Justine Skye
I'm trying to create a collection of stories - the 'U.F.O.W.A.V.E.' songs are all stories. I haven't really taken direct lyrical influence from other songwriters, but my dad bought me a book of W.H. Auden's poems when I was younger, and the imagery really interested me.
~ King Krule
I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe.
~ Neko Case
I've always used Southern rappers in epigraphs for my novels. For 'Sing, Unburied, Sing,' I wanted to use Big K.R.I.T. - because I have so much respect for the lyrical depth of their music.
~ Jesmyn Ward
Conceive a canvas for a lyrical or fairytale buffoonery, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown everything in an abnormal and dreamy atmosphere, - in the atmosphere of the great days. - It must be something soothing, - even serene in its passion. - Regions of pure Poetry.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
~ Randy Newman
One afternoon as I just gazed at the topmost branches of those immensely tall trees I began to notice that the uppermost twigs and leaves were lyrical happy dancers glad that they had been apportioned the top, with all that rumbling experience of the whole tree swaying beneath them making their dance, their every jiggle, a huge and communal and mysterious necessity dance, and so just floating up there in the void dancing the meaning of the tree.
~ Jack Kerouac
I'm big fan of soulful music - classic rock with a folk-ish twist.
~ Sal Khan
'Elect the Dead' is a rock record that takes you on a journey with different types of genres integrated, different lyrical themes digested, and many fun and colorful moments to enjoy.
~ Serj Tankian
I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.
~ Talib Kweli
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
~ Novalis
I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes.
~ Siri Hustvedt