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Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.
I always take notes on my phone of lyric ideas.
In our hands, even the straightest lyric sounded shady.
Poetry, first and foremost, is the lyric. It's the music.
I usually start with a lyric and see where that takes me.
I'm a lyric man - I'm always looking for meaningful songs.
I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.
I said if a woman sings an aggressive guy's lyric, it can't miss.
'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun.
Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home.'
For me, whenever I choose a song to sing, it's about the lyric first.
There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.
A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.
If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.
I usually start with a lyric or a melody and then build a song around that.
I try and journal every day, and that's where a lot of my lyric comes from.
It's not only about the rap lyric. Today, people are buying you as a person.
When Curtis Mayfield made 'Super Fly,' he used the lyric to make a statement.
My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
I have a card catalogue in my brain of every lyric of every sappy love song ever written.
I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.
I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing.
When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.
I write a lyric, but when I reread it, I think it's awful and either hide it or crumple it up.
When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.
I'm always creating. Whether I'm writing a lyric or making a beat, every day I'm doing something.
I've wanted to do a Christmas song for years but thought every lyric and melody had been written.
The most amazing thing is being onstage and watching the audience sing every song lyric for lyric.
I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.
I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.
I was an usher at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. You had to watch whatever play they had on 40 times.
I've always given attention to detail. I've always given my heart and soul into a lyric, into a line.
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.
In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of.
Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.
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.
We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.
Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing.
Anything is food for starting a song. A song can start with a lyric idea or a melody or just a sound that inspires.
It's such a weird process, songwriting, because you just have to feel it. There's no right or wrong melody or lyric.
No matter what road I take, I can never get too far away from the conscious lyric and the socially conscious content.
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!
Sometimes I'll be driving and a lyric will come into my head, and I will have to pull over and record it on my phone.
As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't found any homegrown talent.
I'm lyric conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.