#lyric

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#being #deceived #differing #divisions #each

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

#bad #content #feels #good #grown

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. ↗

— Brian Eno

#generated #lyrics #peculiar #processes #random

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention. ↗

— Brian Eno

#attention #beat #engage #exist #lyric

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#forte #hang #his #hunter #like

We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#beings #crave #feel #going #great

I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that. ↗

— Jonny Lang

#guys #had #i #i wish #know

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#cord #cover #create #expand #hard

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last. Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about. ↗

— John Legend

#because #bunch #come #first #hook

Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power. ↗

— Fernand Leger

#before #enlargements #enormous #entirely #fragment