#lyric

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me. ↗

— Tim Burton

#dr #favorite #growing #growing up #his

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically. ↗

— Jim Capaldi

#complete #did #ever #everything #figure

He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I think that's the key and that's the magic, it's making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they're on the dance floor. ↗

— Deborah Cox

#come #complicated #connect #could #dance

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections. ↗

— Hart Crane

#contains #epic #fact #failure #folk

I want to suggest a feeling. It's ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics. ↗

— Danielle Dax

#assume #because #different #else #experience

We don't analyze our lyrics. ↗

— Santiago Durango

#lyrics #our

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric. ↗

— Ben Folds

#figure #job #lyric #music #out

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was. ↗

— Aberjhani

#faith #famous-poets #famous-quotes #freedom #grace

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#fancy #i #just #little #lyric

Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance. ↗

— Beth Gibbons

#created #distance #feel #like #lyrics