Lyrical Quotes

• For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.

  Eudora Welty

  Stories, Emotion, Speak

  35 Copy quote

• Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you.

  Neil Diamond

  Song, Sex, Hands

  Song: Sweet Caroline

  72 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with me that I would distinguish among the shoes in a perfectly normal fashion, but form him it was a revelation. There's a very lyrical passage in Holy Fire about old wealthy European men and their shoes, and how beautiful their shoes are, and how there have never been shoes as beautiful. I think that that was probably as close as Bruce will ever get to homage in my direction. I made him aware of footwear fashion.

  William Gibson

  Beautiful, Fashion, Men

  Source: craphound.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

  Michel Foucault

  Death, Truth, Philosophy

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The Birth of the Clinic”, p.211, Routledge

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest.

  Glenn Tipton

  Musical, Musician, Band

  85 Copy quote

• This is a lyrical guide that addresses the deep human yearning to make a difference. It's full of indelible stories reminding us that, yes, helping people is hard-but it's both possible and infinitely rewarding. A Path Appears offers practical steps that any of us can take to empower others, and ourselves.

  Anne Rice

  Differences, People, Empowering

  6 Copy quote

• I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony.

  Eminem

  Miracle, Bees, Agility

  Song: Tonite, Album: Infinite

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can be a permanent fixture in my lyrical mixture.

  Eminem

  Mixtures, Fixture, Permanent

  Song: Bagpipes from Baghdad, Album: Relapse, 2009

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is a string attached to Maia Sharp's voice. And when she sings, you find that the other
  end is attached to your gut. Her voice is lush and sensual and the emotions she articulates
  resonate with the small feelings we have that sometimes are hard to face..there is an edge to
  her songs, but also a softness...she is lyrical and conversational at the same time. Her CD was
  the only one in my machine for a month. Her work inspires me to dig deeper.

  Kathy Mattea

  Song, Cds, Voice

  5 Copy quote

• All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Poetry, Littles, Whole

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3567, Delphi Classics

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the language of science is highly lyrical and evocative and an important part of our lives in many ways.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Thinking, Important, Way

  4 Copy quote

• As far as I can tell, writing the essays didn't change the way I wrote poetry. Although the essays contain scattered passages that might be called lyrical, they often contain closed statements of what is only suggested in the poetry.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Writing, Might, Way

  "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.

  Rigoberto Gonzalez

  Moving, Landscape, Narrative

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas. Eventually, that process of using my voice to bring ideas across became more complicated, and I felt I could use it more as an expressive tool.

  M. Ward

  Writing, Ideas, Voice

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the album 'Nothing Personal' is a lot more grittier and a lot more honest from a lyrical standpoint. Also, musically it's the most intricate and most thought-out record that we've ever recorded.

  Jack Barakat

  Thinking, Albums, Records

  6 Copy quote

• I glean a few times a week, and it's all about the subject line. I look for the lyrical, "Billowy Red Scarf Girl" or the funny, "Hipster Chick Who Passed Gas," the unintentionally funny, "Looking for the Hot Girl in Pink Dress," ones that immediately suggest images, "Furry Arms Under a Yellow Umbrella," or the plain odd, "Seeking Girl Who Bit Me Twice..." I don't think I've ever abandoned one... the images usually arrive fully formed in my head as soon as I read the message, and I decide whether to draw it or not.

  Sophie Blackall

  Girl, Hipster, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Generally, if you could picture a bunch of rock and roll momentum behind a song and it was particularly melodious, maybe the Pornographers would do it. If it was kind of moody and more lyrical, then maybe it would be a Destroyer song. Anything that's really lyrically driven I would keep for Destroyer.

  Dan Bejar

  Song, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview with Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you ever get to a wall, you just got to break that wall down and keep going, and I feel like I have come up with some conceptual songs that will really connect with people and that is something that I have been showing and improving my lyrical ability so much that I came to this realization that I also want to make music that people can connect with.

  Shane Bunting

  Song, Wall, People

  Source: 411mania.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's no linear narrative - the structure is more like a series of variations on a theme (how identity is shaped by language), with the past constantly bleeding into the present, dreams into reality. And the language, while incredibly lyrical in places, also has this underlying dissonance, the sense of it having itself been translated.

  Deborah Smith

  Dream, Reality, Past

  Source: thequietus.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Spring, Ambition, Cities

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.30

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose that uses the tricks of poetry, such as dense imagery. This is a big topic of debate in poetry land. There's no perfect definition.

  Campbell McGrath

  Land, Perfect, Use

  5 Copy quote

• What is noble, lyrical, tender in the upper level shown is also with the servants, scoundrels, and scamps, as in a distorting mirror. This contrast seems to me a most appealing musical theme--to show love in its noble and crude forms, romanticism and crass realism mixed as in everyday life.

  Stefan Zweig

  Mirrors, Musical, Everyday

  Richard Strauss, Stefan Zweig (1977). “A Confidential Matter: The Letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935”, p.70, Univ of California Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie.

  John Lahr

  Drama, Angel, Glasses

  "Angels on the Verge" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. November 15, 2010.

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.

  James Taylor

  Numbers, Political, Heavy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

  David Whyte

  Fierce, Aspect, Imaginative

  52 Copy quote