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Quotes About Lyrical

I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.
~ Mandy Patinkin
And Esme remembered in a rush--the wolfsong, the haunting, lyrical spirals of it in the dawn quiet and the feeling of euphoria that had attended it. Even in recollection the howling uplifted her like the crescendo at the end of a symphony and made her heartbeat quicken.
~ Laini Taylor
I'm known for yokin jacks and beatin em wit smokin gats, Leavin token blacks with broken backs and open caps.
~ Lamont Coleman
A Tec-9 is my utensil, Fillin' niggas with so much lead they could use they dick for a pencil.
~ Lamont Coleman
The songs sort of come out spontaneously and it'll take me awhile to figure out what exactly is happening lyrically, what kind of story I'm telling. Then I start building little bridges - word bridges - to make everything go from one point to the next point to the next point until it reaches the end.
~ Jeff Mangum
A poem should be motionless in time As the moon climbs.
~ Archibald MacLeish
He was enthusiastic about everything, but when she came in with the pie he grew positively lyrical.
~ James M. Cain
If you notice in my own films the blending of songs is distinct. They narrate stories and scenes.
~ Gulzar
I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
~ Zadie Smith
You think it would be good to be the writer of melodious verses, Well it would be good to be the writer of melodious verses;
~ Walt Whitman
Along the bank, the cicadas tuned up, singing their singular psychedelic tune.
~ Charles Martin
Working on solo material is something I had always dreamed of doing, and I'm incredibly happy with the results. 'Everything To Me' is a very personal song to me lyrically; it is such an upbeat and optimistic record, perfect for the summer. I can't wait for people to hear it!
~ Shane Filan
I had always been a jazz fan - Django Reinhardt, Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, the early George Benson. And I come from the Hank Marvin melodic upbringing. So blues, I loved, but I also liked jazz. Therefore, my style was more lyrical.
~ Peter Frampton
I am used to making people upset and uncomfortable with my lyrical content when it comes to music.
~ JPEGMAFIA
I read 'Sabella or The Blood Stone' by Tanith Lee, which was hugely influential to me. I love Tanith's writing. She's just really lyrical, beautiful use of language.
~ Holly Black
Eminem has been someone that I've always considered the greatest ever, to ever do it. You know what I mean? In every aspect, the storytelling abilities, lyrical ability, honesty. You can hear it in my music that I'm heavily influenced by that.
~ Joyner Lucas
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's wonderful to hear strings on 'Planet Claire'.
~ Cindy Wilson
Die Like a Rich Boy' has, for me, some of the strongest lyrical content I've heard in many years; an epic love song laced with dark imagery and acerbic social criticism.
~ Aaron Dessner
I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.
~ Rick James
When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off with melody and a lyrical idea, and then build off of that story.
~ Verite
Tensurrealism creates actual and non-compromised reality, jamboree, fervor, fascination, poetics of an active enthusiasm, interludium, lyrical practice, active happiness.
~ Unknown
Facts produce structures, objects are lyrical realities.
~ Unknown
Only in Boston AA can you hear a fifty-year-old immigrant wax lyrical about his first solid bowel movement in adult life.
~ David Foster Wallace